Strategic HR Business Partner

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, aligning talent strategies with business priorities and helping leaders navigate complex organizational and people-related decisions.
• Proactively identify talent opportunities and risks, using curiosity and data to guide leaders in closing gaps and strengthening team effectiveness.
• Translate people analytics into actionable insights, informing decisions around retention, engagement, team structure, and workforce planning.
• Lead and facilitate talent planning, succession planning, and workforce strategy discussions, ensuring readiness for future business needs.
• Partner with leaders to design career frameworks, job structures, and development pathways that support internal mobility and long-term engagement.
• Support leadership development through 360 feedback, coaching, and partnership with Learning & Development, strengthening leadership capabilities across the organization.
• Facilitate performance calibration processes to drive consistency, fairness, and alignment.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to align hiring strategies with workforce plans, and participate in leadership hiring to ensure alignment with UWCU values and culture.
• Embed diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) principles into all talent strategies and decisions.
• Partner with People Technology to leverage systems, dashboards, and insights that enhance decision-making and efficiency.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide initiatives by identifying people-related risks, dependencies, and opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Psychology, Organizational Development, Business Administration or related field required.
• 6 - 7 years’ experience in progressive experience in Human Resources leadership or Human Resources Business Partner position required.
• PHIR/SHRM/AIHR certification preferred.
• Solid knowledge of policies, practices and laws pertaining to HR administration as evidenced by PHR or SPHR certification is required.
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems or answer questions with the use of data.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate conflict.
• Demonstrated ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment, working on multiple projects with frequently changing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong leadership skills with the proven ability to develop a high performing PSS Team.
• Strong interpersonal communication, outstanding ability to influence and build relationships, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Curious and collaborative approach to work, enabling creative and collective solutioning.
• Ability to demonstrate agility and sound judgment.
• Great communicator who works best in a collaborative environment and builds mutual trust and credibility at all levels of an organization.
• Proven ability to successfully lead change initiatives and manage large scale change.

Benefits

• 21.5 days of annual time off (accrued per pay period)
• 2 weeks paid caregiver leave
• 2.5 weeks paid new child parental leave
• 2 days paid volunteer time
• 10 paid holidays (including your birthday!)
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans, including domestic partner eligibility
• Employee Assistance Program
• and more!