Senior HR Business Partner

Senior HR Business Partner Overview

We are thrilled to announce a newly established Senior HR Business Partner position, which will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to enhance organizational effectiveness, leadership capabilities, and strategic workforce planning throughout the company. This role emphasizes the importance of holding senior leaders accountable for their growth, providing them with coaching that mirrors the expectations they have for their teams. As leaders improve, their teams will also advance in tandem.

The Senior HR Business Partner will be instrumental in implementing effective people practices that harmonize business priorities with employee experiences. Additionally, this role will contribute to the evolution of Diligent’s HR operating model, focusing on more strategic and AI-enabled methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior strategic HR partner to the SLT for a designated business unit or regional pod, leading organizational design, talent planning, succession planning, and coaching.
• Develop the people strategy in collaboration with senior leadership, translating business objectives into impactful people plans.
• Lead strategic workforce planning, balancing the organization of work between human resources and AI agents, while fostering the development of necessary human skills.
• Partner with the HR Director to implement and roll out the broader people strategy across the organization.
• Manage the talent and performance cycles, including goal-setting, SLT-level calibrations, and compensation reviews.
• Transform workforce, engagement, and performance data into insights that drive business impact, utilizing various analytics tools.
• Coach SLT members and hold them accountable for their growth and that of their teams, ensuring alignment with objectives.
• Ensure senior leaders exemplify expected standards, providing direct feedback to facilitate necessary changes.
• Oversee escalated employee relations investigations, acting as the point of escalation for complex cases.
• Lead cyclical HR activities within the business unit, ensuring consistent support across the team.

Required Experience/Skills

• Extensive experience as a senior HR partner to business leaders, particularly with direct involvement with a Senior Leadership Team (SLT) or similar.
• Strong expertise in organizational design, strategic workforce planning, and succession planning, with the ability to adapt to a regionally structured HR operating model.
• Proven experience in managing complex employee relations investigations and serving as an escalation point for challenging cases.
• Demonstrated success in coaching senior leaders and holding them accountable for their development and that of their teams.
• Familiarity with HR information systems and a willingness to embrace AI-driven operational changes.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, judgment, and problem-solving skills, particularly in a newly defined role.

What Diligent Offers You

• A flexible work environment with a hybrid model requiring at least 50% onsite work for those within commuting distance of an office.
• Global days of service and comprehensive health benefits.
• Generous time-off policy and wellness programs.
• A commitment to diversity and inclusion through Employee Resource Groups and educational resources.

Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering a diverse workforce and providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are interested in this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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