Strategic Talent 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.

Organizational Change & Transformation

• Partner with leaders to plan and execute change strategies that support organizational initiatives and evolving business needs.
• Act as a change consultant, ensuring leaders are equipped to communicate effectively, engage stakeholders, and drive adoption.
• Partner across HR functions to design and deliver learning and communication strategies that support change initiatives.
• Use feedback, metrics, and ongoing insights to evaluate change effectiveness and adjust strategies as needed.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide initiatives by identifying people-related risks, dependencies, and opportunities.

PSS Team & Organizational Leadership

• Operate as a collaborative member of the PSS team, contributing to enterprise initiatives and advancing UWCU’s people strategy.
• Provide coaching, consultation, and guidance on employee relations, talent planning, and the overall employee experience.
• Maintain strong working knowledge of employment law, HR practices, and evolving industry trends to ensure sound, compliant decision-making.
• Partner with People Technology to leverage systems, dashboards, and insights that enhance decision-making and efficiency.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes, simplify workflows, and enhance the employee experience.
• Invest in your own growth and maintain external networks to bring forward emerging best practices and innovative ideas.

Qualifications

• Education & Experience: 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. PHR/SHRM/AIHR certification preferred.
• Skills: Solid knowledge of policies, practices and laws pertaining to HR administration as evidenced by PHR or SPHR certification is required. 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. Demonstrated sense of urgency. Striving for excellence and continuous improvement and growth mindset. Proven ability to successfully lead change initiatives and manage large scale change.