[Hiring] Senior HR Business Partner @Direct Travel

Role Description

The Senior HR Business Partner (HRBP) is a highly motivated, experienced strategic advisor and self-starter who serves as a trusted partner with senior leaders and people managers. This pivotal role, reporting to the Senior Manager, Human Resources, offers a unique opportunity to drive people strategies that align with and enable Direct Travel’s overall business objectives, playing a crucial role in fostering a positive and productive work environment, enhancing organizational effectiveness, and ensuring a best-in-class employee experience for our associates.

The Senior HRBP brings strong business acumen, operational excellence, and deep HR expertise to influence leadership decisions, manage change, and scale people practices in a fast-paced, global and dynamic environment supporting client groups across the United States, Canada and other countries as needed. The Senior HRBP operates with a high degree of autonomy and addresses critical business needs timely and effectively while building strong and collaborative relations across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field.
• 8-12+ years of progressive HR experience, with significant time spent as an HR Business Partner or Advisor, including supporting senior leaders and large client groups.
• Demonstrated success partnering with leaders in large, complex, fast-paced changing environments (e.g. 1,000+ employees).
• Experience supporting large client groups (500+ employees).
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. and Canadian employment law and HR practices preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-growth, or transformative environment.
• Experience leading and supporting change initiatives within an organization.
• Strong consulting, coaching, and influencing skills with senior leadership.
• Experience leading change and managing ambiguity.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people strategy to financial and operational outcomes.

Requirements

• Strong consultative and advisory skills with the ability to build trust, partner with, and influence leaders.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Coaching and consultative leadership style.
• Advanced employee relations expertise.
• Strategic and results-oriented thinking.
• Strong executive presence and influencing skills.
• Change management and organizational design expertise.
• Talent and succession planning expertise.
• Analytical problem-solving with ability to interpret data and trends to tell a story.
• Strong judgment, confidentiality, and integrity.
• Excellent communication, coaching, and facilitation skills.
• Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple clients and priorities simultaneously.
• Knowledge of Canadian and/or US employment regulations and hiring practices.

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