Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. The HR Business Partner - Director will act as a strategic advisor to leadership, aligning HR strategies with organizational growth goals and guiding talent, performance, and culture initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with senior leaders and department heads to align HR strategy with our goals and growth plans
- Translate business strategy into people initiatives across talent, structure, leadership, and culture
- Be a trusted advisor on organizational design, workforce planning, and change management
- Guide organizational change plans associated with growth, restructuring, or new business models requiring deep organizational development expertise
- Support culture-building programs that strengthen company values
- Partner with leadership to embed scalable people processes in a growing organization
- Lead workforce planning to ensure we have the right skills, capacity, and structure to meet growth demands
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to forecast hiring needs, improve hiring processes, and support scaling efforts
- Facilitate succession planning and leadership pipeline development for critical roles. Partner with the business leaders to ensure succession readiness
- Design and implement performance management frameworks that inspire accountability performance
- Coach managers and leaders on performance management, feedback, and employee development
- Partner with Talent Management to identify leadership and capability-building programs
- Establish and maintain an environment where employees are managed fairly, and in compliance with all applicable employment laws and company policies
- Provide strategic coaching to managers and leaders on employee relations matters, performance management, disciplinary actions, and documentation best practices
- Partner with the Employee Relations function to ensure, compliant handling of employee relations issues and investigations
- Ensure managers are trained and equipped to handle employee management issues, reducing risk and improving leader effectiveness
- Monitor trends in employee relations cases and manager behavior to identify systemic risks, recommend policy or process improvements, and mitigate legal and cultural risk
- Collaborate with Legal and People Operations to ensure policies, and manager actions align with regulatory requirements and company standards
- Analyze HR metrics (turnover, engagement, performance, hiring effectiveness, diversity)
- Provide insights to leadership using people analytics
- Develop dashboards for executive leadership
- Use data and analytics to measure HR program effectiveness and inform decision-making
Requirements:
- Deep organizational development expertise, including process re-engineering, social and technical change management, and a mindset to ensure we scale while optimizing performance, culture, and people practices
- Experience influencing senior leaders and managing complex organizational change and background in data-driven HR and people analytics decisions that have delivered results
- Expertise linking people initiatives to revenue and operational efficiency
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field (Master's preferred)
- 7–12+ years of progressive HR experience, with experience in an HR Business Partner or strategic HR leadership role
- Experience supporting a fast-growing organization
- Knowledge of employment law, HR best practices, and organizational development
- Excellent coaching and management skills