Director, People Partners

Marathon-Health; Pearl City (HI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Health, a leading advanced primary care provider, seeks a Director, People Partner to lead our People Partner function and align people strategy with business goals. You will mentor a six-person team, advise senior leaders, and drive workforce analytics and AI-enabled initiatives in a healthcare setting.

You will oversee Workday improvements, governance, and compliant practices, ensuring a high-trust, inclusive culture while partnering across enterprise transformations and vendor

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive human resources or People Partner experience, including at least 5 years managing a People Partners Team or comparable HR function.
• Healthcare experience supporting a complex healthcare organization is required.
• Hands-on experience using Workday to support HR processes, reporting, and process improvement is required.
• Experience applying AI-enabled tools, automation, or advanced analytics in healthcare, HR, or workforce operations.
• Strong leadership, advisory skills with senior leaders, and change-management expertise.
• Bachelor's degree in HR, business, healthcare administration, or related field; or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the People Partner strategy aligned with Marathon Health's business and People Experience objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop the 6-person People Partner team with clear expectations and ongoing growth.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior Business People Leaders and ClinOps Sr Leaders on workforce strategy and effectiveness.
• Partner with leaders to assess workforce capacity, design structure, and plan talent needs; translate findings into actions.
• Strengthen leader capability through coaching, tools, and scalable learning; ensure timely, consistent people practices.
• Oversee complex investigations, performance matters, accommodations, leaves, separations, and workplace concerns with compliant, well-documented processes.
• Collaborate with HRIS to optimize Workday processes and data quality; enable manager self-service and redesigned workflows.
• Identify and implement responsible uses of AI-enabled tools across People Partner workflows.
• Use Workday and other data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities; translate into recommendations and scorecards.
• Lead organizational changes and enterprise transformations with workforce impact planning and communication.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment requirements and healthcare workforce considerations.
• Provide strategic oversight of People Operations programs and vendors.

Skills

People Partner

Workday

AI in HR

Healthcare HR

Change leadership

Employee relations

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR

Tools

Workday

Job description

Marathon Health is a leading advanced primary care provider, partnering with employer and union plan sponsors to improve health for millions of Americans. With nationwide onsite, nearsite, and network health centers, and virtual primary care, Marathon delivers a value-based model that enhances the healthcare experience for members and providers, while driving meaningful cost savings for plan sponsors. Marathon is proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work, reflecting the company's commitment to building an inclusive, high-trust culture where all employees can thrive. Learn more at marathon.healthABOUT THE JOBThe Director, People Partner leads Marathon Health's People Partner function and ensures our people strategy supports the needs of the business, our leaders, and our teammates. This role leads and develops the People Partner team, serves as a trusted advisor to senior business and clinical leaders, and turns workforce insights into practical actions that improve organizational performance.The Director brings consistency and scale to People Partner practices while applying sound judgment to complex teammate matters. This leader also advances the effective use of Workday, people analytics, automation, and responsible AI to simplify work, strengthen decisions, and improve the leader and teammate experience.ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIESEnterprise People Partner strategy: Define and execute the People Partner strategy, priorities, KPIs, and success measures in alignment with Marathon Health's business and People Experience objectives.Team leadership and capability: Lead, coach, and develop the (6) People Partner team by establishing clear expectations, ongoing growth and development, and providing continuous learning opportunities.Leadership Consultation: Serve as a trusted advisor to the Business People Leaders and ClinOps Sr Leaders on workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness, leadership performance, change management, business transformation.Workforce planning and organizational design: Partner with leaders to assess workforce capacity, organizational structure, critical roles, talent risks, and future capabilities; translate findings into actionable workforce and change plans.Leadership effectiveness: Strengthen people-leader capability through coaching, consultation, tools, and scalable learning; hold leaders accountable for timely, consistent, and effective people practices.Teammate relations and risk: Provide effective HR compliance strategies and senior-level direction for complex investigations, performance matters, accommodations, leaves, separations, and workplace concerns. Ensure objective review, strong documentation, consistent decisions, and compliance.Workday Strategy: Partner with HRIS to optimize People Partner business processes, data quality, reporting, and manager self-service in Workday. Sponsor process redesign and adoption for transactions including job changes, transfers, leaves, performance actions, and separations.AI and digital enablement: Identify and implement responsible uses of AI-enabled tools and automation across People Partner workflows and healthcare workforce decision-making.People analytics and insights: Use Workday and other workforce data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across retention, performance, teammate relations, and leader effectiveness. Convert analysis into clear recommendations and scorecards that measure the impact of actions taken.Change and integration leadership: Lead the people strategy for changes, and other enterprise transformations, including workforce impact planning, leader alignment, communications, and adoption.Compliance and policy governance: Monitor relevant federal, state, and local employment requirements and healthcare workforce considerations; guide consistent policy application and recommend updates to policies, systems, and leader practices.Vendor and program oversight: Provide strategic oversight for assigned People Operations programs and vendors, which may include leave administration, workers' compensation, unemployment, immigration, and compliance reporting.QUALIFICATIONSExperience: 10 or more years of progressive human resources or People Partner experience, including at least 5 years managing a People Partners Team or a comparable HR business partner function.Healthcare: Demonstrated experience supporting a complex healthcare organization, clinical workforce, or multi-site healthcare operations is required.Workday: Hands-on experience using Workday to support HR business processes, workforce reporting, data-informed decisions, and process improvement is required.Artificial intelligence: Experience applying AI-enabled tools, automation, or advanced analytics within healthcare, human resources, or workforce operations is required, including an understanding of responsible-use and data-privacy considerations.Functional depth: Advanced knowledge of teammate relations, employment law, performance management, organizational design, workforce planning, change leadership, and HR operations.Leadership influence: Demonstrated success advising senior leaders, navigating ambiguity, influencing across a matrixed organization, and leading complex decisions with sound judgment.Education: Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, healthcare administration, organizational leadership, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.Pay Range: $130,000 - $170,000/yrThe actual offer may vary dependent upon geographic location and the candidate’s years of experience and/or skill level. This position is also eligible for an annual incentive.We are accepting applications for this position until a final candidate has been selected. To apply to this position and learn more about open jobs at Marathon Health, visit our careers page.