HR Director

BKD; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 170,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Health coverage

Paid growth time

Freelance arrangement that respects

Job summary

BKD is seeking an HR Director in Annapolis to work closely with executives, aligning data, strategy, and daily operations. This role demands ownership, collaboration, and the ability to move complex initiatives from idea to impact.

You will shape business cases, steer tradeoffs for speed, and ensure SAP SuccessFactors costs are managed. A self-starter with a robust network in Annapolis will thrive here; the position offers mentorship, health coverage, and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in improving business processes.
• Fluency in active listening and documenting insights.
• Extensive experience (11+ years) navigating organizational decisions.

Responsibilities

• Decide where BKD should say no to enable strategic focus.
• Advocate trust-the-team options over safe ones.
• Maintain honest, current leadership deck free of vanity charts.
• Draft business cases for autonomy-rich initiatives.
• Frame tradeoffs for quick executive decisions.

Skills

Active Listening

Process Improvement

Executive Communication

Networking in Annapolis

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

Job description

A HR Director role at BKD means working closely with executives to align data, strategy, and day-to-day operations. A $170,000 - $241,000 HR Director role for a self-starter who wants ownership, collaboration, and a genuine path forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Decide where BKD should say no so it can say yes to one thing
• Argue the trust-the-team option even when the room already loves the safe one
• Keep the director leadership deck honest, current, and free of vanity charts
• Draft the business case that gets an autonomy-rich initiative funded past committee
• Frame the tradeoff so a busy executive can choose in sixty seconds
• Untangle which SAP SuccessFactors costs are fixed and which you can actually move

What You'll Bring

• A history of leaving business processes better than you found them
• Fluency in Active Listening earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
• 11 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
• An Annapolis network, or the hustle to build one from scratch

People choose BKD because we pair deadline-driven technology with a team that genuinely cares, right here in Annapolis. We build an environment where warm-yet-rigorous ideas get tested quickly and credit is shared fairly.

The number is $170,000 - $241,000.

• mentorship
• health coverage
• paid growth time
• a freelance arrangement that respects your evenings.

We are filling this HR Director seat now, with onboarding planned for the near term.