Director - Human Resources Business Partner

Job Description Summary

The Director, HR Business Partner serves as a strategic HR leader in a large, complex healthcare system. This role partners with senior operational and clinical leaders to align people strategies with organizational priorities, advance workforce planning, strengthen leadership capability, and support a culture of engagement, inclusion, accountability, and high performance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, translating business priorities into people strategies that support organizational performance, workforce effectiveness, and culture.
• Influence organizational decision-making by highlighting potential impact to all quadrants of the balance scorecard and addressing risk factors through a deep understanding of the business.
• Continuously enhance their knowledge of the workflows, work capacity, constraints, and financial performance of their areas of support, as well as across the organization.
• Provide direct, balanced, and trusted counsel to leaders, including the ability to respectfully challenge assumptions, address difficult issues, and guide leaders through sensitive employee and organizational matters.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of HR Business Partners to ensure consistent, high-impact consultation with leaders across assigned business areas.
• Understand the talent landscape of the areas of support, partnering with leaders on workforce planning, talent strategy, succession planning, leadership effectiveness and performance management; have awareness of system-wide talent pools.
• Assess and validate gaps in organizational design, team effectiveness, engagement, and change management capabilities across multiple care sites, entities or areas of responsibilities.
• Leverage and collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence, including Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Employee Relations, Leadership Development & Organizational Effectiveness, and Learning, Culture and Belonging, to deliver integrated solutions for identified business needs.
• Identify workforce trends, organizational risks, and emerging people needs; use data, insights, and sound judgment to recommend practical solutions and tap into appropriate COEs.
• Support leaders through complex organizational changes, including restructuring, growth, integration, transformation, and operating model shifts – ensuring change readiness and comprehensive communication across assigned areas.
• Advance employee engagement & experience, leadership capability, psychological safety, and talent development across assigned areas by establishing a deep understanding of area AES results and talent review identified opportunities.
• Helps set the direction for HRBP support prioritization across the system and contributes perspective to the development of HR strategies.
• Contribute insights and advice to system-wide HR initiatives, process improvements, communications, and programs that strengthen the associate and leader experience; drives awareness and adoption in their areas of influence.
• Equip leaders with appropriate resources to support addressing complex employee relations, performance, and retention concerns.
• Serves as an escalation point for and promotes consistent application of HR policies, practices, and employment-related decisions while balancing the unique needs of clinical, operational, and corporate environments.
• Support the responsible integration and adoption of AI-enabled tools and capabilities across both HR and assigned business areas and build leader and associate readiness for evolving ways of working.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree

Specialized Knowledge

• Strategic thinking and business acumen
• Executive presence and trusted-advisor capability
• Leadership coaching and talent development
• Change leadership and organizational agility
• Data-informed decision making
• Collaboration across HR Centers of Excellence
• Judgment, discretion, and confidentiality
• Commitment to inclusion, belonging, and a positive associate experience