Senior Director, HR Business Partner

Omnicom Production LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Production LLC seeks a Senior Director, HR Business Partner to partner with business leadership and translate global People strategy into actionable priorities. You will serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, ensuring leadership, capability, and talent alignment to deliver ambitious goals.

You will collaborate with C-suite executives, navigate a complex matrix organization, and connect workforce data to business decisions while driving organizational effectiveness across the

Qualifications

• Significant progressive HR leadership experience in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience partnering with C-suite executives and senior leadership teams.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen linking business strategy to people priorities.
• Expertise in organizational design, transformation, and workforce planning.
• Ability to influence senior decisions and build trusted relationships.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Global Chief People Officer and senior leadership to shape and execute the people strategy.
• Advise senior leaders with a people and organizational perspective on business decisions.
• Translate business priorities into leadership, talent, and capability actions.
• Lead organizational design and operating model evolution to enable growth and efficiency.
• Drive workforce planning to align talent with business forecasts and priorities.
• Provide counsel on workforce composition, headcount investment, and organizational health.
• Lead succession planning and leadership development initiatives.

Skills

C-suite partnering

Executive presence

HR leadership

Organizational design

Workforce planning

Data-driven HR

Employee relations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Advanced degree or HR qualification preferred

Job description

The Senior Director, HR Business Partner is a senior People leader responsible for partnering with business leadership to shape and deliver the people strategy for a significant area of the Omnicom Production business.

Working closely with the Global Chief People Officer, this role will help translate OP’s global People strategy into business priorities and serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders. The Senior Director will bring a strong people and organizational perspective to business decisions, ensuring the organization has the leadership, capabilities, structure and talent required to deliver against its ambitions.

The role will work across the broader People organization to connect business needs with global priorities and solutions, while anticipating organizational and talent challenges and helping leaders navigate an evolving and complex business environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Global Chief People Officer and senior business leadership to shape and execute the people strategy in support of OP’s business priorities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to senior leaders, bringing a people and organizational perspective to key business decisions.
• Build a deep understanding of business performance, client priorities and financial drivers to provide commercially relevant People counsel and solutions.
• Partner with leadership on organizational design and evolving operating models to support growth, efficiency and business performance.
• Support and lead the People aspects of organizational transformations, integrations, restructurings and other significant business change.
• Drive strategic workforce planning, connecting business forecasts and priorities to future talent, capability and organizational requirements.
• Advise leadership on workforce composition, organizational capacity, headcount investment and organizational effectiveness.
• Lead talent and succession planning, identifying critical roles, high-potential talent, development priorities and succession risks.
• Advise on senior talent decisions, leadership appointments and retention strategies, and coach leaders on leadership effectiveness, team performance and organizational dynamics.
• Use workforce data, employee insights and business performance indicators to identify organizational trends, risks and opportunities and translate them into action.
• Provide senior-level counsel on complex and sensitive employee matters, partnering with Employee Relations and legal as appropriate.
• Identify broader organizational, talent and leadership themes and partner with leaders to strengthen organizational health and performance.
• Partner across People COEs, including Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Compensation and People Operations, to connect business needs with enterprise programs, expertise and solutions.
• Support the Global Chief People Officer in advancing key People priorities and ensuring consistency and alignment across the organization.
• Lead and mentor HR Business Partners and other People team members as appropriate, helping strengthen the overall capability and effectiveness of the People function.

What We’re Looking For

• Significant progressive HR leadership experience, including senior HR Business Partner experience within a complex, highly matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with C-suite executives and senior leadership teams.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to connect business strategy to organizational and talent priorities.
• Significant experience in organizational design, transformation, workforce planning, talent management and succession planning.
• Proven ability to influence senior-level decisions and constructively challenge stakeholders while building strong, trusted relationships.
• Strong executive presence, judgment and ability to navigate complex, sensitive and ambiguous situations.
• Strong analytical capability and experience using workforce and business data to inform decisions.
• Experience operating across global or matrixed organizations and balancing enterprise, regional and local priorities.
• Experience within advertising, production, creative services, media, technology, professional services or another client-driven environment is highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required; advanced degree or professional HR qualification preferred.