Senior HR Business Partner

Brief Job Overview

The Senior Human Resources Business Partner provides HR support to assigned client groups, ensuring effective and impactful implementation of human resources practices, processes, and programs that support organizational effectiveness and development. The incumbent will perform a wide range of HR activities closely engaging as a strategic business collaborator translating business strategies into HR priorities and providing advice/coaching to staff and leadership. They will also partner with key Executive Team members to ensure USP’s workforce and talent programs align to USP’s strategic plans.

How will YOU create impact here at USP?

• Provides strategic HR business partnership and coaching to people managers to impact the engagement, development, and retention of talent.
• Serves as an advocate for building diverse and inclusive teams.
• Acts as a trusted advisor of client leaders.
• Builds the business partner relationship with management and staff.
• Understands the business, goals, and challenges and identifies and/or helps to address systemic issues.
• Provides continuous coaching and guidance to client group regarding organizational issues that are impacting its overall effectiveness.
• Conducts appropriate diagnosis and potential interventions.
• Leads complex and multi-year projects and initiatives that enable USP’s global HR strategy to fully support the current and future strategic plans of the organization.
• Leverages relationships with members of the HR Leadership Team, ET members and their staff to understand USP’s strategic requirements with regards to talent and workforce planning, identify initiatives and project manage the work necessary to achieve the desired results.
• Manages internal project resources as well as consultants to ensure successful outcomes for projects.
• Manages challenging and complex employee relations matters.
• Recognizes issues and problems that are interfering with the effectiveness of the individual’s or the organization’s performance.
• Develops recommendations and provides guidance to clients for resolutions.
• In conjunction with managers, analyzes trends and root causes and looks for opportunities to improve work environment and client group satisfaction when appropriate.
• Assists managers with all aspects of the annual performance management and development process including coaching client groups on effective documentation practices for good and poor performance.
• Ensures legal compliance and provides constructive feedback to evaluator to improve quality of evaluation where necessary.
• Identifies talent gaps and development needs of the client groups, its managers, and staff in key positions.
• Partners with leaders to develop effective organization design strategies.
• Develops effective communication plans and change management strategies to optimize change adoption and acceptance.
• Evaluates employee survey data and other employee feedback to assess issues with employee engagement and team culture.
• Partners with leaders in developing action plans to address areas of concern and assists in determining progress for successful outcomes.
• Partners with HR Centers of Excellence (e.g., Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards and Learning Strategy & Organizational -Effectiveness) to address related issues and problems and to ensure client groups receive the necessary services, support, and communications from these centralized HR functions.
• Analyzes employee exit interview feedback, consults with supervisors for areas of continuous improvement where needed.

  Who is USP Looking For?

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Social Sciences, Business or related field required.
  • A minimum of 8 years of experience in HR with a minimum of 6 years in a role which included a focus on identifying areas to increase organizational effectiveness through assessing and diagnosing situations and determining most appropriate intervention.

  Skills Sought

  • Experience in most areas of human resources but specifically in employee relations, organizational effectiveness, people development and compensation.
  • Experience in successfully launching and managing HR/OD projects and initiatives.
  • Highly developed listening skills coupled with the consistent utilization of a consultative approach.

  Additional Desired Preferences

  • Advanced degree in Organization Development, HR Management, Industrial Relations, or related field a plus.

  Benefits

  • Compensation Base Salary Range: $124,000 - 157,000
  • Target Annual Bonus: % Varies based on level of role
  • Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate’s skill set, experience, qualifications, equity, and other job-related reasons.

  Note

  • USP does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies and is not responsible for fees from recruiters or other agencies except under specific written agreement with USP.

  Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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