Human Resources Business Partner

Cushman & Wakefield; New York; Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

Retirement savings plans

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Unpaid time away from work

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking an HR Business Partner to partner with business groups across New York, delivering strategic HR initiatives and hands-on support. The role collaborates with HR leadership on talent cycles, change management, and HR best practices to drive immediate and future business results.

The role emphasizes strategic consultation, workforce planning, compensation oversight, and linkage to performance management across a matrix organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field.
• 5-7 years of progressive HR experience, with a focus on strategic global HR business partnering.
• Strong business acumen and ability to align HR initiatives with business objectives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships across the organization.
• High EQ and ability to coach senior management.
• Comfortable in dynamic, fast-paced, matrixed environments.
• Analytical mindset with problem-solving and project management skills.
• Professional HR Certification desired (SHRM-CP, PHR, SPHR).

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic consultation and partnership to the business on HR initiatives.
• Lead succession planning, talent development, and overall talent strategy.
• Analyze situations and apply HR knowledge to recommend priorities.
• Employee relations coaching and escalation handling.
• Oversee compensation processes and ensure regional alignment.
• Workforce and succession planning in collaboration with leadership.
• Support recruiting for senior/critical roles.
• Coordinate training needs with L&D.
• Deliver data-driven insights to drive decisions.
• Project manage global HR initiatives across disciplines.

Skills

Strategic HR partnership

Succession planning

Talent development

People data analysis

Project management

Communication

Emotional intelligence

Analytical mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field

HR Certification (SHRM-CP/PHR/SPHR) desired

Tools

HRIS

Job description

Human Resources Business Partner

The HR Manager role provides strategic partnership and hands on support to business groups across a given geography to deliver people initiatives that drive immediate and future business results. Additionally, this role will work with HR leadership on key HR initiatives and projects related to talent cycles, change management and implementation of HR best practices.

Leadership/Business Partnership

• Provide strategic consultation and partnership to the business, with focus on integrating such value-added HR initiatives as succession planning, talent development, and overall talent strategy.
• Introduce game-changing people programs to enhance organizational effectiveness and help the business deliver on current and future objectives.
• Analyze situations and issues, recognize strategic implications, and apply both specialized expertise and broader HR knowledge to recommend people priorities.

Functional Responsibilities

• Employee Relations – Ensure proper coaching of managers and employees to improve employee performance and engagement, and partner with Employee Relations team to resolve escalated performance and conduct issues.
• Compensation - Ensure competitiveness and alignment with regional HR plans. Manage annual compensation processes for assigned employee population.
• Workforce and succession planning – In close cooperation with leadership, identify future needs, build succession plans and proactively identify options to close potential resourcing gaps
• Recruitment – Support recruiting process for most senior/critical positions
• Talent development – Manage talent review process, performance management, and employee development programs
• Training – Coordinate the training needs and training planning activities with the leadership teams, leveraging programs delivered by L&D teams
• Liaise and develop relationships with organizational counterparts and business unit management and staff
• Deliver an exceptional quality of service, as reflected by stakeholder feedback
• Communicate and collaborate across COE’s and People Partner teams to ensure alignment across matrix reporting structure and platform
• People Data Analysis- compilation and analysis of people data to enhance awareness and drive decision making
• Project Management- work with broader HR team on a wide variety of global HR initiatives and projects across multiple HR disciplines, including, but not limited to, compensation, diversity and inclusion, governance and policy, change management, talent management, performance management, HRIS, and acquisition integration.
• Recommend new approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency of services performed
• Partner with the centers of expertise for payroll processing, employee benefits programs, and other national and/or global HR programs to ensure proper alignment and communication

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field.
• 5-7 years of progressive HR experience, with a focus on strategic global HR business partnering.
• Strong business acumen and ability to understand and align HR initiatives with business objectives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships and relationships across the organization.
• High emotional intelligence (EQ) and ability to coach and influence senior management.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced, and highly matrixed environment.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and project management skills.
• High energy, professionalism, and polished communication style.
• Self-starter who can work independently and take ownership of initiatives and projects.
• Professional HR Certification desired (e.g., SHRM-CP, PHR, SPHR).

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

• health
• vision
• dental insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• health savings accounts
• retirement savings plans
• life
• disability insurance programs
• paid and unpaid time away from work

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $ 127,500.00 - $150,000.00

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position at Cushman & Wakefield, please call the ADA line at 1-888-365-5406 or email [e-mail]. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.

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