Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Duke Careers; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Duke Health is seeking a Sr. HR Business Partner in Durham, NC to provide strategic HR partnership across workforce planning, talent and culture strategy, and risk management.

You will mentor HR business partners and advise leaders to align people initiatives with business goals in a complex health system. Responsibilities include guiding AVP-level leaders, forecasting workforce needs, and leading talent initiatives such as succession planning, internal mobility, and total rewards.

Qualifications

• 5 years of strategic partnership experience in Human Resources or a related field.
• Experience across compensation, organizational development, employee relations, performance management, and employment laws.
• Ability to forecast workforce needs and provide analytics to drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction to higher level leaders (AVPs and above). Build and maintain strategic relationships.
• Partner with the business on talent initiatives and forecast future workforce needs to align with business goals.
• Lead talent initiatives, succession planning, internal mobility, and total rewards strategies.
• Guide leaders through complex employee relations issues and drive change initiatives.

Skills

Strategic partnership

Stakeholder management

HR analytics

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field

Job description

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (On-Site and Remote mix)

Regular or Temporary: Regular

Location: Durham, NC, US, 27710

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

General Description of the Job Class

The Sr. HR Business Partner's role is to provide strategic partnership in four primary areas: workforce planning, talent and culture strategy, business operations and risk management, and employee relations. The role delivers HR services that address the unique needs of their customers in alignment with overall HR strategies. This role is also responsible for mentoring and/or supervising HR business partners and providing professional HR advisory services by creating a respectful and trusting relationship with managers, leaders, and employees.

Duties and Responsibilities of this Level

Provide strategic direction to higher level leaders (generally AVPs and above). Build and maintain strategic relationships.

Partner with key stakeholders and leaders to align talent solutions with operational priorities, forecast future workforce needs to align with business goals, and provide analytics insights to aid informed decision making.

Partner with the business on key talent initiatives. Identify solutions to critical workforce planning trends and needs for complex cases or cases that have been escalated from HR business partners (and/or Center of Expertise higher complexity cases).

Partner with key stakeholders and leaders to develop effective strategies for leveraging talent, drive culture strategies that match business priorities, create retention strategies, and aid with succession planning and internal mobility.

Provide consultative support to leaders to execute total rewards strategy and identify operation risks related to compliance and mitigation strategies.

Proactively partner to drive change initiatives, guide leaders through complex employee relations issues and create strategies to mitigate future issues. Handle employee relations escalations from HR business partners.

Advise, lead, drive consistency across the business and all stakeholder groups. Monitor, measure and recommend corrective course of action.

Collaborate with other Sr. HR business partners across the entities to drive consistency. Create consistent practice, service delivery, practices, day-to-day HR operations across the system.

Offer broad project leadership that crosses multiple areas. Financial responsibility - manage project budget and maintain fiscal responsibility. The role may also manage departmental budgets.

Consult with HR business partner's for any complex issues. Provide coaching, program advocacy, and other support as needed.

Make HR operational level decisions impacting leaders, service lines, and system.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications at this Level

Education

Work requires skills that are generally acquired through the completion of a Bachelor's degree in Human Resource, Business Administration, or related field.

Experience

5 years of strategic partnership experience in Human Resources or a combination of education and experience sufficient to meet to the relevant experience and competencies provided below.

Experience and working knowledge of multiple human resources disciplines, including compensation practices, organizational diagnosis, employee relations, diversity and inclusion strategies, performance management, organizational development, talent acquisition and applicable employment laws.

Experience comprehending, interpreting, and appropriately applying the sections of applicable laws, guidelines, regulations ordinances and policies.

Degrees, Licensure, and/or Certification

N/A

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

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