Strategic HR Business Partner | Change & Analytics

Northern Trust Corp; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k and pension

Discretionary bonus program

Job summary

Northern Trust Corp is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to support COO Business Services, Technology, and Chief Data & Analytics Office groups. You will align HR strategy with business goals, influence leaders, and drive workforce planning and organization design initiatives.

You will coach senior leaders, shape talent decisions, manage change, and leverage data and AI insights to inform people decisions. A strong collaboration with COEs and a focus on inclusive practices are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field.
• 8+ years in an HR Business Partner or comparable role.
• Strong consulting and advisory capability with proven experience coaching senior leaders.
• Ability to analyze data, assess risk and apply sound judgment.
• Deep domain expertise across HR policy, practice and process, with understanding how HR disciplines integrate.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnering: Partners with leaders to understand business goals and challenges; brings people and workforce implications into business decisions early and proactively.
• Workforce planning and talent foresight: Translates business strategy into workforce needs (skills, capacity, roles, timing); anticipates risks and gaps.
• Organization design & effectiveness: Advises on team design, role clarity, spans of control, and ways of working; supports reorganizations and improvements to how work gets done.
• Leader coaching and talent decisions: Coaches leaders on performance, development and difficult talent decisions; builds leader capability.
• Change leadership & transformation: Supports or leads change initiatives by translating enterprise change into local impact; focuses on readiness, adoption, and sustained outcomes.
• Data analytics and AI‑enabled insights: Uses people data, analytics, and AI‑enabled tools to surface insights, tell a story, and inform decisions.
• Succession and Leadership planning: Partners with leaders on identifying critical roles, assessing readiness, and defining development actions.
• Culture, Engagement & Inclusion: Helps leaders understand how behaviors drive culture and engagement.

Skills

Consulting

Data analysis

HR policy

Stakeholder mgmt

Change mgmt

Workday

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration

Tools

Workday

Job description

Northern Trust Corp is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to support COO Business Services, Technology, and Chief Data & Analytics Office groups. You will align HR strategy with business goals, influence leaders, and drive workforce planning and organization design initiatives.

You will coach senior leaders, shape talent decisions, manage change, and leverage data and AI insights to inform people decisions. A strong collaboration with COEs and a focus on inclusive practices are essential.