HR Business Partner - Global Business Unit

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The HR Business Partner (HRBP), GBU is an active member of an assigned business unit Leadership Team and holds HR leadership responsibility for that group. This role plays a critical part in shaping people strategy, driving talent initiatives, and enabling long‑term profitable growth. By aligning people strategies with business objectives and fostering a strong culture, the HRBP influences workforce planning, organizational capability, and employee performance.

This individual must work independently, lead both long‑ and short‑term human capital strategies, and operate effectively in a dynamic and innovative environment.

• Build relationships with senior business leaders to offer thought leadership on organizational and people‑related strategy and execution.
• Understand the business strategy and identify opportunities to increase alignment by helping business leaders identify, prioritize and build organizational capabilities, behaviors, structures and processes.
• Analyze workforce trends to model and forecast future labor requirements to support workforce planning for the assigned business or functional unit.
• Using data analytics, diagnose gaps between current and desired organization performance and deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organization redesign, headcount management, process change, coaching and training.
• Lead the annual succession planning process for the assigned leadership team, identifying talent gaps and bench strength needs to meet business plans.
• Support M&A by engaging, as appropriate, in due diligence, integration planning, communication, talent retention, policy alignment, cultural integration, legal compliance, employee support and post‑merger evaluation to ensure the smooth integration of human capital and organizational processes.
• Lead the annual succession planning process for the assigned leadership team, identifying talent gaps and bench strength needs to meet business plans. (duplicate wording retained per your request)

• Act as the advocate for leading the talent management and development plans for the business or function unit, with a focus on enhancing the quality of leaders and building skills and capabilities of the workforce.
• Lead Key Leader, Pivotal Talent and Rising Star identification and development planning for the business or function.
• Understand and stay up to date on any changes or new initiatives within the business area that impact talent plans.
• Review key business performance targets and their related talent implications with the assigned leadership team.
• Partner with COEs as the voice of the business in determining appropriate development resources and training.

• Lead global and regional HR projects, as prioritized by the HRLT.
• Act as a liaison between the business, HR operations and HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) to ensure HR projects and initiatives are aligned with organizational needs.
• Understand and interpret employee sentiment inputs (Peakon) to identify needs, develop survey questions and identify solutions for broad impact across the assigned business unit or function.
• Develop strategies and initiatives to promote organizational culture aligned with the company’s values and objectives.
• Lead change management efforts to support organizational transformations, including mergers and acquisitions, and cultural integration.
• Promote diversity and inclusion, assuring the assigned leadership team is creating and sustaining an environment that supports employees from diverse…