Senior Director, HR Business Partner

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The HR Business Partner Senior Director will be responsible for partnering with senior business leaders, executives, and Human Resources centers of expertise to deliver effective people strategies that align with business objectives, drive business results and contribute to the overall associate experience. Primary focus areas will include executive coaching in addition to leading the co‑creation and deployment of talent strategies & implementation, engagement action plans, change management plans, workforce plans, and technical learning strategies & solutions that support business goals.

This is a remote eligible role.

• Collaborate with senior leaders and executives to develop and execute people and functional learning strategies that increase organizational and individual performance to deliver on business goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor providing consultation, coaching, and guidance on complex people and talent issues.
• Provide information and insights to enable data‑driven human capital decisions, leveraging HR and business metrics to analyze and identify issues, needs, and trends.

• Drive the execution of global HR initiatives at the local level, including performance management, compensation planning, succession planning, and employee engagement.
• Evaluate internal and external talent capabilities and drive actionable plans to identify, develop, and grow talent through succession and development planning.
• Lead strategic and operational workforce planning efforts across a complex portfolio.

• Lead organizational design and transformation activities, including deploying processes to assist leaders with decision‑making for effective staffing and structure.
• Support transformation‑related change activities applicable to client groups.

• Develop strong working relationships with HR Centers of Expertise, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Total Rewards, and HR Operations.
• Provide thought leadership to ensure the successful delivery of innovative HR services and solutions across the enterprise.

• Responsible for partnering with the Learning COE to advise on creation and deployment of solutions that align with talent strategies applicable to client groups.
• Responsible for hard line leadership of one junior HR team member as well as dotted line leadership / mentorship of other HR professionals within the HR function.

• Facilitate high‑quality deployment and delivery of enterprise people processes, including annual performance management, compensation planning, talent management, and employee engagement.

• Drive initiatives that support and reinforce a collaborative, aligned, and engaged culture.
• Act as a cultural steward, promoting an inclusive, high‑performance culture that supports collaboration and alignment across geographically dispersed teams that support and reinforce a collaborative, aligned, and engaged culture.

• Use enterprise change management philosophies to advise on large‑scale change management strategy and oversee the successful implementation of key organizational initiatives within assigned client groups.

• Lead efforts to ensure compliance with local labor laws and regulations.

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources; HR and/or Change Management Certification a plus
• 12+ years of experience in a human resources business partner role including prior experience leading executive‑level talent strategies and execution for medium to large scale transformations
• Strategic thinking, change management, data‑driven decision making, data analysis &…