Director Human Resources Business Partners

Company:
Alaska Airlines The Team:
Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day.

If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.
Role

Summary:

The Director, HR Business Partners inspires and leads a strategic business partner team, including programs, and scalable processes to support Alaska Airlines' high-performance culture. This senior leader forges strong relationships with executive leadership in all divisions by listening, understanding needs, defining shared objectives, proactively consulting, and collaborating to meet organizational goals. They leads the strategy for the Business Partner team's development and serves as leader and key subject matter expert on high-impact HR initiatives.

This role executes strategy and sustainable processes to advance employee engagement and talent development.

Key Duties:

• Partners with executive leaders to develop a comprehensive people strategy that addresses organizational effectiveness, onboarding of new leaders, leadership development, engagement, workforce and succession planning, performance management, and training support.
• Establishes appropriate programs to ensure the effectiveness of people strategies, appropriate use of resources, performance against goals, and effectiveness of People team and divisional leaders while managing reports and scorecards to drive results.
• Develops and implements strategy for the HRBP team's service delivery, setting and maintaining a roadmap for team development that supports the needs of the organization.
• Works with the leaders of HR centers of excellence to enable the business partners to provide integrated and customer-focused HR business solutions to leaders.
• Project manages various people-related and cross-functional projects, including development and implementation of company-wide people initiatives and programs, and ensures change management best practices are applied.
• Partners with the leader of Engagement Programs to promote the survey, communicate survey results, and support leaders in taking action to improve engagement, customer satisfaction, and leadership effectiveness.
• Responsible for governance process for new and changing roles, executing job evaluations, org changes, offers and merit increases in coordination with the Compensation team.
• Partners cross-functionally and cross-divisionally to grow and maintain a high-performance culture and to manage non-performers.
• Cultivates and motivates direct/indirect reports through coaching, mentoring, and by providing regular and meaningful feedback.

Job-Specific Experience, Education &

Skills:

Required

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in human resources, business administration, or other related field or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant HR experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on leadership experience, including leading large groups of employees and leading multiple functions simultaneously in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment, with at least 2 of those years directly leading people.
• Deep experience designing and managing complex processes and projects.
• Good working knowledge of and experience with human resources functions including HRBP teams, compensation, and employee relations.
• Proven change management skills and a thirst for applying research and best practices to existing business problems.
• Excellent strategy, organizational, interpersonal, leadership and customer service skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel for business, often on short notice.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• PHR or SPHR professional certification.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations:

• Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.
• Executive-level presence along with top-notch written and verbal communication, public speaking, influence and motivational skills.
• Innovative, apolitical, resilient, fact-based and creative solutions-focused mindset, with ability to thrive in a rapidly-changing, collaborative environment and to manage conflict.
• Proven ability to leverage business acumen and analytic capability to position the HR organization as change agent and key business partner.

Salary Range: $167,050 - $258,950 / year Total Target Compensation Range (incl. bonus & equity): $217,165 - $336,635 Salary Details:
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