Director, People Partners

Marathon Health LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Health LLC is seeking a Director, People Partner to lead and develop the People Partner function, aligning the people strategy with business goals and clinical operations. This role focuses on driving organizational effectiveness, strategic workforce planning, and the ethical use of AI within HR processes.

The Director collaborates with senior leaders, oversees a six-member team, and champions data-driven decisions using Workday analytics to improve leader and teammate experiences.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive human resources or People Partner experience.
• Healthcare experience in a complex healthcare organization.
• Hands-on Workday experience supporting HR processes, reporting, and improvements.
• Experience applying AI-enabled tools in HR or workforce operations, with data privacy in mind.
• Strong knowledge of employment law, employee relations, and HR operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the People Partner strategy, priorities, KPIs, and success measures aligned with Marathon Health’s objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop the 6-person People Partner team with clear expectations and ongoing growth opportunities.
• Advise senior Business People Leaders and ClinOps Sr Leaders on workforce strategy and organizational effectiveness.
• Partner with leaders on workforce planning, org design, and change plans; translate findings into actionable actions.
• Strengthen leadership capability through coaching, tools, and scalable learning; ensure consistent people practices.

Skills

HR leadership

Leadership coaching

Employee relations

Change management

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field

Tools

Workday

HRIS

Job description

ABOUT THE JOB

The 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 & RESPONSIBILITIES

Enterprise 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience: 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/yr

The actual offer may vary dependent upon geographic location and the candidate’s years of experience and/or skill level.

BENEFITS

Eligibility varies based on PT or FT status:

Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness Benefits: Choice of 2 medical plans, 2 dental plans, and vision coverage, unlimited free mental health benefits and EAP resources, Rewards for challenges and healthy lifestyle activities
• Family Friendly & Reproductive Health Benefits: Family-building and hormonal health benefits and paid parental leave
• Time-Based Benefits: Generous PTO or FTO, Paid Holidays + A Day for What Matters
• Financial Support: Company paid Basic Life and Disability insurance, Supplemental Life, Spending Accounts, 401(k) with employer match and graded vesting
• Continuing Medical Education (CME) for maintaining and strengthening the knowledge, skills, and expertise of our health center teammates, as applicable

Click here to visit our Benefits page on our Careers page.

Marathon Health provides equal employment opportunities to all teammates and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Marathon Health is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact [e-mail].

Marathon Health will never ask a candidate for personal identifiable information (date of birth, social security number, driver’s license information, etc) via email or messenger tools, or for a financial deposit of any kind.

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