VP, People & Culture — Enterprise Strategy & Enablement

H&R Block, Inc.; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 250,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

H&R Block, Inc. is seeking a Vice President, People & Culture – Corporate and Operations to lead the P&C partnership for Marketing, Finance, Legal, and People & Culture across the enterprise.

You will translate business priorities into organization design, leadership capability, workforce plans, and talent decisions that enable teams to move with clarity, speed, and accountability. You will serve as a strategic advisor to functional leaders, aligning performance expectations with our culture

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive HR experience, including senior HRBP/generalist leadership and advising executive leaders.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams, including leaders of leaders.
• Experience partnering across Marketing, Finance, Legal, and People & Culture to drive outcomes through org design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, and performance management.
• Experience leading or partnering with HR/P&C operations teams to coordinate cross-functional work, improve operating cadence, and drive execution across a complex organization.
• Proven capability leading transformation and culture work, including reorganizations, operating model shifts, and leadership effectiveness initiatives.
• Strong judgment in employee relations, compliance, and people-related risk management, with effective partnership across Legal, Finance, and People & Culture Centers of Excellence.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in HR, Business, Organizational Psychology, or a related field (advanced degree a plus). Experience using people technology and analytics to drive scale and efficiency strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead People & Culture partnership for Marketing, Finance, Legal, and People & Culture, ensuring leaders have clear talent strategies, organizational plans, and people solutions that support business priorities.
• Partner with functional executives and senior leaders to define leadership expectations, talent priorities, succession needs, and performance actions.
• Partner with business functions to support org reviews, role clarity, spans and layers, decision rights, and people strategies for reorganizations and business transformations.
• Coach and enable leaders to build high-performing teams through strong leadership team dynamics and connected leadership practices.
• Shape quarterly and annual talent plans, including headcount, critical roles, succession, and capability needs, and drive consistent performance and talent actions.
• Lead the P&C Enablement & Execution Director in coordinating cross-functional work across the P&C organization, improving operating rhythms, clarifying ownership, tracking progress.
• Leverage people analytics, systems, and AI/automation to surface insights to influence and support business leaders.

Skills

Executive HR leadership

Strategic partnership

Org design

Talent management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

HRIS

People analytics

Job description

H&R Block, Inc. is seeking a Vice President, People & Culture – Corporate and Operations to lead the P&C partnership for Marketing, Finance, Legal, and People & Culture across the enterprise.

You will translate business priorities into organization design, leadership capability, workforce plans, and talent decisions that enable teams to move with clarity, speed, and accountability. You will serve as a strategic advisor to functional leaders, aligning performance expectations with our culture