[Hiring] Director, HRBP Retail - East @sephora.com

Role Description

The Director, Retail Human Resources is a strategic leader responsible for elevating organizational performance through talent, leadership, culture, and workforce effectiveness. This role serves as the senior HR partner to Retail Operations and leads a team of HR Business Partners supporting a large, complex, multi-unit retail organization.

The Director plays a critical role in translating strategy into meaningful business outcomes while helping shape the future of the HR function. This leader combines strong business acumen, organizational insight, and leadership influence to solve complex challenges, strengthen leadership capability, and drive meaningful business and organizational outcomes.

The ideal candidate moves seamlessly between frontline realities and enterprise strategy, understanding the root causes behind business challenges while developing scalable solutions that improve performance, culture, and organizational health.

This leader is responsible for building trust, raising standards, developing future HR leaders, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and business partnership.

Key Responsibilities

• HR Team Leadership & Capability Building
  • Lead, coach, develop, and inspire a team of HR Business Partners.
  • Establish clear expectations and accountability for strategic business partnership, execution, and leadership effectiveness.
  • Build team capability in organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, workforce planning, data-driven decision making, and business acumen.
  • Develop future HR leaders through coaching, feedback, development planning, and stretch opportunities.
  • Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
  • Drive consistency in HRBP practices, standards, and service delivery across supported geographies.
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve insight generation, streamline HR processes, and scale consistent support for leaders and teams.
• Strategic Business Partnership
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic HR partner to Retail Operations leaders.
  • Develop and implement people strategies that drive business performance, talent outcomes, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement.
  • Partner with leaders to assess organizational health, identify workforce risks, and develop actionable solutions.
  • Balance immediate business needs with long-term talent and organizational priorities.
  • Influence key business decisions through data, workforce insights, business acumen, and sound judgment.
  • Support organizational changes and business initiatives while ensuring alignment with company priorities and values.
• Culture & Employee Experience
  • Protect and strengthen Sephora’s culture by promoting leadership behaviors aligned with company values.
  • Partner with leaders to foster environments that support accountability, trust, inclusion, development, and performance.
  • Support organizational and change initiatives that enhance employee experience and business effectiveness.
  • Reinforce leadership expectations and team norms that contribute to a high-performing, customer-focused culture.
  • Continuously assess organizational health and recommend actions that improve engagement, retention, and effectiveness.
• Leadership, Influence & Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Provide candid coaching and feedback to leaders while maintaining strong partnerships and trust.
  • Influence decisions and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders without relying on positional authority.
  • Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities while maintaining focus on business outcomes.
  • Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and accountability during periods of change.
  • Exercise sound judgment and manage risk while balancing business needs and employee experience.
  • Build strong, trusted relationships across all levels of the organization.
  • Establish credibility through business partnership, expertise, consistency, and results.
  • Collaborate effectively with Retail Operations, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, Labor Relations, Legal, Learning & Development, Finance, Technology, and Corporate partners.
  • Ensure alignment and consistency of HR practices, expectations, and execution across East and West HRBP teams.
  • Share best practices and drive standardized approaches that improve organizational effectiveness across regions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive HR Business Partner experience supporting senior business leaders in a complex, multi-unit, or geographically dispersed organization.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience, including leading, coaching, and developing HR professionals.
• Demonstrated experience translating business priorities into people strategies that improve organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, workforce planning, talent outcomes, engagement, and retention.
• Strong working knowledge of employee relations, employment law, compliance, talent management, organizational design, change management, and HR operating practices in a retail or multi-site environment.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field required.
• Advanced degree preferred.

Preferred Certifications

• SPHR, SHRM-SCP, or comparable senior HR certification preferred.

Working Conditions

• Availability outside standard business hours may be required to support urgent employee relations, operational, or business needs.
• Travel up to 25% for store visits, regional meetings, and corporate office needs.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Directly leads a team of HR Business Partners.
• Responsible for coaching, performance management, succession planning, and capability development of the HRBP team.
• Builds a high-performing and engaged HR organization that delivers strategic value to Retail Operations.

What You’ll Get

• The annual base salary range for this position is $150,705.00 - $201,000.00.
• Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses.
• Collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating and driving the industry forward.
• Your career transformation starts here, with opportunities that will challenge, stretch and develop your skills.
• As you make an impact on beauty, you’ll feel and see the positive change that your individual voice is a part of.

Benefits

• Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family’s needs with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Sephora fully covers employees’ disability and life insurance.
• Competitive 401k with 4% match as well as FSA and HSA programs.
• Student Debt Retirement plan, where your student loan payments qualify to earn the 401k match from Sephora.
• PTO, flexibility, protected leave, and more for work/life balance.
• Access to training, development, and tuition reimbursement for career growth.
• 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or “gratis,” and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products.
• Free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse.
• Volunteer and donation matching.