HR Business Partner-Director

Johnson Controls, Inc.; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 245,000; Full time

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Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner Director for its Data Centers.

The role partners with executive HR leadership to translate growth priorities into integrated people actions, shaping decisions with data and ensuring execution across a complex global matrix. The successful candidate will lead leadership, succession, talent, and organizational design efforts, while driving outcomes across multiple HR disciplines and transformational initiatives.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success as a senior HRBP or HR leader in a high-growth, fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Experience supporting industrial technology, engineering, manufacturing, data centers, or complex growth businesses with senior leaders.
• Strong business and financial acumen; able to move from strategic framing to hands-on execution without sacrificing pace or quality.
• Track record of leading across a global or regional matrix with executives, functions, regions, and frontline operations.
• Advanced use of workforce data, talent insights, and operating metrics to guide choices and outcomes.
• Strong executive counseling, prioritization, resilience, and disciplined follow-through in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.
• Clear understanding of strategic workforce planning, organization design, succession, critical talent, leadership effectiveness, performance, retention, and change leadership.

Responsibilities

• Shape people strategy to support growth, execution, and organizational effectiveness.
• Own leadership and talent outcomes across succession, critical talent, leadership effectiveness, performance, development, and retention.
• Translate plans into organization design and strategic workforce actions.
• Coach leaders to improve decision quality, accountability, and ownership.
• Foster high-performance, inclusive culture through engagement, feedback, development, and retention actions.
• Lead transformation by creating clarity from ambiguity and sustaining adoption of priorities.
• Coordinate TA, Talent Management, Learning, Total Rewards, HR Ops, Employee Relations, and Workforce Analytics around outcomes.
• Partner on performance and reward decisions to reinforce accountability and market competitiveness.
• Run a disciplined portfolio of HR priorities with clear escalation and options.

Skills

Senior HRBP leadership

Global matrix leadership

Workforce analytics

Strategic workforce planning

Executive coaching

Business & financial acumen

Job description

HR Business Partner- Director, Data Centers

Preferred Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Remote within USA will be considered

Johnson Controls Global Data Centers organization is looking for a senior HR leader who can turn growth strategy into clear workforce, organization, leadership, and talent actions, then drive execution with pace and discipline across a complex global matrix.

Role Overview

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) Director serves as a trusted partner to senior leaders and a force multiplier for the business. In this role, you will help improve business performance by translating growth priorities into integrated people actions, shaping decisions with data, and ensuring follow-through from strategy through execution. Success requires strong judgment under pressure, the ability to move between executive-level counseling and hands‑on delivery, and the confidence to align multiple HR disciplines around shared outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Executive HR Director and business leadership to shape people strategy that supports growth, execution, and organizational effectiveness.
• Own leadership and talent outcomes across succession, critical talent, leadership effectiveness, performance, development, and retention.
• Translate business plans and changing scenarios into organization design, strategic workforce plans, and capacity and capability actions.
• Coach and challenge leaders at multiple levels to strengthen decision quality, accountability, ownership, and performance.
• Build a high-performance and inclusive culture through practical actions across engagement, feedback, development, recognition, movement, retention, and employee relations.
• Lead transformation work by creating clarity from ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, sequencing implementation, and sustaining adoption as priorities evolve.
• Mobilize Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning & Development, Total Rewards, HR Operations, Employee Relations, and Workforce Analytics around shared business outcomes.
• Partner with Total Rewards and business leaders on performance and reward decisions that reinforce accountability, market competitiveness, retention, and differentiation.
• Run a disciplined portfolio of strategic and operational HR priorities, maintain transparent action and risk tracking, and escalte with options and a clear recommendation when needed.
• Use enterprise HR products, digital tools, and workforce data as the default, while helping shape pragmatic solutions where business needs move faster than existing processes.

How You’ll Do It

• Focus on what matters by staying close to the work, using workforce and business data to identify the few issues that most affect growth and execution, and moving quickly from diagnosis to action.
• Own the outcome by clarifying decisions, owners, milestones, risks, and escalation paths, and by following through until commitments are delivered.
• Win as one team by aligning HR specialists, regional partners, and business leaders early, building trust across the matrix, and removing handoff friction for the business.
• Improve every day by simplifying where possible, testing practical solutions, learning quickly, and solving problems without compromising integrity, fairness, compliance, or enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success as a senior HRBP or HR leader in a high-growth, fast-paced, high-pressure, transformation, or scale-up environment.
• Experience supporting industrial technology, engineering, manufacturing, mission‑critical infrastructure, AI infrastructure, data centers, or another complex growth business. Proven ability to operate as a senior HR partner and independently influence senior business leaders.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to move from strategic framing to hands‑on execution without losing pace or quality.
• Track record of leading across a global or regional matrix with executives, functions, regions, and frontline operations.
• Advanced use of workforce data, talent insights, and operating metrics to frame choices, recommend action, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong executive counseling, prioritization, resilience, and disciplined follow‑through in ambiguous or fast‑changing environments.
• Clear understanding of strategic workforce planning, organization design, succession, critical talent, leadership effectiveness, performance, retention, and change leadership.

Nice to Have

• Direct experience integrating Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning & Development, Total Rewards, HR Operations, Employee Relations, and Workforce Analytics around business outcomes.
• Experience with organization design, strategic workforce planning, succession, critical talent, retention, and enterprise change.
• Experience creating strategy and operating within a recognized Lean or enterprise business system, or a similarly disciplined performance environment.
• Experience with technical, engineering, commercial, field‑service, manufacturing, or skilled‑trades populations.

Why Join Us

This is a high-impact role for an HR leader who wants to shape decisions, strengthen leader ownership, and help a growing global business execute with discipline. You will work across functions and regions, influence enterprise priorities, and help build scalable people solutions that support both performance and long‑term capability.

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $163,200–$245K (Salary to be determined by the education, experience,knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with marketdata.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package. The posted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognize that exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us