Director, Strategic HR Business Partner

Role Overview

• Form effective partnerships with senior leaders to understand the business strategy and translate that strategy into strategic and operational Talent plans
• Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders (VP+) on highly critical and often complex talent and people related issues
• Accountable for driving toward excellence in Talent Management across the Employee lifecycle
• Bring the voice of the customer back to the broader HR team to ensure program design incorporates the needs of the business
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to recruit and onboard senior leaders; create and implement targeted TA strategies to achieve business goals
• Lead the performance management and talent review process and partner with leaders to ensure appropriate development plans are in place to support employee growth
• Guide leaders to identify functional competencies and performance dimensions for specific roles
• Coach and build capability of managers to be effective people leaders
• Partner with SVP, Talent Strategy Partner and senior leadership teams to develop a workforce planning strategy that helps develop accurate forecasts for near and long-term hiring and skill development needs
• Implement plans to ensure adoption of new processes and protection of Cengage’s culture and values
• Partner with the Inclusion & Diversity lead to support development and execution of inclusion programs
• Lead projects that are prioritized and critical to the talent agenda
• Be a catalyst for organizational change; orchestrate organizational re-design efforts as needed
• Leverage data and business mentality to pull out insights and proactively anticipate implications for talent strategy

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience as an HR professional
• Minimum of 5 years supporting an organization’s leadership team
• Experience in developing and implementing talent strategies for high performance organizations
• Superior collaboration and communication skills with executive presence
• Strong presentation skills and comfort level with addressing groups of all types and sizes
• Experience in supporting and driving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programming
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic and sophisticated environment
• Ability to use data to develop insights and recommendations
• Strong coaching, conflict resolution and ability to have difficult conversations
• Ability to lead-by-example and promote a positive, team-based environment
• Proficiency with Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to travel up to 20% for required team meetings and other business unit events
• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program
• Comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower employees