HR Operations Business Partner

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is seeking an experienced HR Operations professional to engage with Departments, Areas and the HR Operations team to improve the delivery of HR systems, tools and services across the organization.

You will lead customer engagement, change readiness, and adoption of new HR capabilities while partnering with division leadership to align priorities, monitor progress and deliver training.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in HR operations or related professional experience.
• 4+ years managing key business processes with an HCM system.

Responsibilities

• Build lasting relationships to ensure professional interactions.
• Lead customer engagement and change readiness activities for new HR capabilities and process improvements.
• Partner with division leadership to track priorities, monitor progress, assess outcomes, and recommend improvements to service delivery.
• Drive HCM adoption and optimize processes by standardizing practices and measuring adoption.
• Ensure transparency for customers through timely reporting and clear expectations.
• Provide HR subject matter expertise to understand and represent the field HR experience.
• Influence HR initiatives through collaboration with peers and leaders across departments.
• Support cross-functional projects requiring data gathering and reporting to identify improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate on channel strategy to deliver HR processes, support and knowledge.
• Manage and execute initiatives aligning customer requirements with HR priorities.
• Deliver training on key HR processes and supporting products.
• Ensure HR processes meet department needs.
• Establish guidelines for troubleshooting and product enhancements.

Skills

Customer engagement

Stakeholder collaboration

HR processes

HCM adoption

Data synthesis

Training

Cross-functional collaboration

Roadmap planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

HCM systems

Job description

Job Description

In this important and visible role, you will engage with Departments, Areas and the HR Operations team to ensure that the delivery of HR Operation's systems, tools and services are continually improving to exceed customer expectations and contribute to the Human Resources strategy and mission the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. As an improvement oriented HR professional your focus will be to understand customer needs and collaborate with HR Operations experts to provide optimal solutions and a proactive strategy to best deliver the essential work of HR.

In this important and visible role, you will engage with Departments, Areas and the HR Operations team to ensure that the delivery of HR Operation's systems, tools and services are continually improving to exceed customer expectations and contribute to the Human Resources strategy and mission the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. As an improvement oriented HR professional your focus will be to understand customer needs and collaborate with HR Operations experts to provide optimal solutions and a proactive strategy to best deliver the essential work of HR.

In return you will have the unique opportunity to quickly gain a broad range of organizational experience and exposure to the varying efforts of the several departments and areas that make up this incredible organization. You will also be a partner in delivering the lasting improvements that will shape the future of HR work and improve both the Employee and Service Missionary Experience

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for building lasting working relationships to ensure professional and productive interactions
• Lead customer engagement and change readiness activities, including business requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and adoption support for new HR capabilities and process improvements.
• Partner with division leadership to track strategic priorities, monitor execution progress, assess customer outcomes, and recommend improvements to service delivery and organizational effectiveness.
• Drive HCM adoption and optimization initiatives by promoting standard processes, eliminating local workarounds, measuring adoption and utilization, and reporting results to leadership.
• Ensure transparency for our customers through timely reporting, availability and setting clear expectations
• Ability to walk the fine line of customer advocate and an HR Operations expert
• Provide optimal HR subject matter expertise to understand and represent the field HR experience
• Influence key HR business initiatives through successful collaboration with peers, leaders, and cross-department HR representatives
• Support cross functional projects and working groups that require the gathering and synthesis of data to discover and report on opportunities for process improvement.
• Collaborate on the appropriate channel strategy to deliver HR processes, support and knowledge (HR Operations channels include: Manager and Employee Self Service as part of an evolving HCM solution, Tier 1 and Tier 2 Shared Services, Tier 3 Experts and the Service Missionary Office)
• Manage and execute strategic and operational initiatives or projects that align customer requirements with HR department priorities.
• Deliver training and instruction on key business processes and supporting products.
• Ensure that HR business processes meet team and HR department needs.
• Establish guidelines for process and supporting product troubleshooting, problem identification and solution recommendations; conduct analysis for resolution as needs arise; make recommendations to management on process changes, and product enhancements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• At least seven years of experience with HR business operations or related professional experience.
• At least four years of experience managing executing or managing key business processes including working with a human capital management (HCM) system.

Demonstrated Skills & Abilities

• Strong Customer Engagement Skills
• Strong Partnering to achieve optimal solutions
• Strong ability to bring alignment to both the strategic and essential elements of HR
• Ability to synthesize data and to provide clear, concise, and complete answers to questions.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Experience using HCM system(s)
• Ability to to train and tutor individuals, small and large groups
• Demonstrate focus, discipline, responsibility, with an orientation toward consistent high performance.
• Experience with abstract concept reasoning, problem solving, statistical compilation, and presentation skills.
• Project management and roadmap planning proficiency.
• To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there will be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment.

About Us

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.