Senior HR Business Partner – Operations
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Senior HR Business Partner shaping talent strategy for Thrivent, a membership-owned financial services organization. Advising leaders on organizational design, succession, performance, and employee engagement.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary HR contact for senior business leaders of assigned client groups
- Partner with the Director, HR on talent plans, organizational design, and organizational effectiveness solutions
- Translate business goals into integrated talent strategies supporting growth, performance, and engagement
- Partner with HR Centers of Expertise on key HR programs, including year-end processes, inclusive culture, workforce planning, and talent review
- Drive talent management planning, talent reviews, and succession planning for assigned business units
- Develop and deploy talent programs to build talent pipelines
- Coach leaders on ethical, inclusive, and compliant people practices
- Analyze skill and capability gaps and work with Learning & Development to address needs
- Champion internal mobility, mentoring, and development planning
- Provide organizational change and organizational design consultation for business reorganizations
- Ensure consistent and legally compliant application of HR policies and practices
- Analyze business unit and talent data to recommend solutions improving performance, retention, engagement, and employee experience
- Lead assigned HR and business-facing projects
- Build partnerships with HR Centers of Expertise and stakeholders across Thrivent
- Partner with organizational leaders and Communications on communication strategies
- Act as a change agent supporting adoption of HR programs and HR best practices
- Collaborate with HR Centers of Expertise on cyclical talent management efforts, including performance reviews, engagement surveys, compensation planning, talent review, and succession planning
- Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies and support continuous improvement and employee engagement
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, psychology, business administration, or related field
- Minimum 8 years of progressive HR experience and/or HRBP experience
- Background in employee relations, organization design/development, talent acquisition, total rewards, and/or performance management in a mid-to-large organization
- Strong business and HR acumen
- Ability to think strategically, plan and align work, and drive meaningful impact
- Understanding of business processes, financial metrics, and organizational systems
- Ability to diagnose organizational performance gaps and facilitate process improvements
- Knowledge of employment law and ability to navigate difficult employee relations issues
- Knowledge of OSHA, EEOC, FLSA, and ADA laws and regulations
- Knowledge of performance management practices
- Ability to develop and implement HR systems, processes, and solutions
- Experience executing initiatives and leading cross-functional teams
- Exceptional communication, coaching, and influencing skills
- Ability to build trusted relationships with senior business leaders
- Facilitation skills for group processing and learning experiences
- Ability to manage ambiguity, change, transformation, pressure, and competing priorities
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Experience with HRIS
- Ability to travel occasionally for leadership meetings or team offsites
- Master’s degree preferred
- HR certification such as SHRM-SCP or SPHR preferred
- Experience in fast-paced, matrixed organizations preferred
- Experience in financial services preferred
- Experience with Workday preferred
Benefits:
- Various bonuses, including annual or long-term incentives
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- 401k
- Pension
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Disability insurance
- Supplemental protection insurance
- 20 days of Paid Time Off each year
- Sick and Safe Time
- 10 paid company holidays
- Volunteer Time Off
- Paid parental leave
- EAP
- Well-being benefits
- Occasional travel for leadership meetings or team offsites
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