Senior HR Business Partner - Mid Atlantic

Hanger, Inc. is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to advise leaders and support HR operations across its Mid Atlantic Zone. The role delivers talent, leadership, organizational effectiveness, and change-management solutions, while handling performance, engagement, and sensitive employee-relations matters.

Responsibilities:

• Establish excellent relationships with business leaders and employees in assigned client groups to build an understanding of their strategies, challenges, opportunities, and needs
• Develop collaborative partnerships with business client groups and across the HR team to ensure consistent alignment with goals and priorities and to develop and implement effective solutions
• Analyze data, metrics, and trends in partnership with business leaders to make informed decisions
• Influence talent decisions by keeping a pulse on the business, market, and industry trends
• Identify gaps in current talent and help leaders anticipate and plan for future needs
• Coach management on people-related matters including employee relations, conflict resolution, company policy interpretation, and management principles
• Provide guidance, coaching, and advice in performance-related matters. Ensure legal compliance and mitigate risk
• Foster the company’s culture while encouraging open and transparent communications
• Drive organizational design decisions and lead change management and communication plans
• Implement employee engagement activities for client group
• Contribute to the design and implementation of integrated talent solutions that drive positive changes across the organization
• In partnership with Talent Acquisition, maintain rigor in selection & assessment practices ensuring that appropriate tools are used to support the hiring decision-making process

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or related field is required
• Eight (8)+ years of progressive responsibility in human resources disciplines including organizational effectiveness, change management, talent management with demonstrated success in HR business partnering
• Ability to build trust and credibility with key business partners and all levels of employees across the company, including executive management
• Able to identify and explain the HR implications for complex business strategies and situations, providing talent solutions to achieve those business goals
• Strong ability to coach, provide guidance, influence, and facilitate healthy dialogue
• Effective leadership and strategic influencing skills
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills
• Able to translate strategic initiatives into operational plans; possesses strong business acumen
• Self-motivated with a strong propensity for action, results, and continuous improvement
• Demonstrated resilience in order to achieve results
• A high level of confidentiality and demonstrated good judgment
• Must handle highly sensitive matters in a timely and professional manner
• Under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances, takes the initiative to pull together stakeholders that can propose solutions
• Knowledge of and ability to interpret federal and state employment laws
• Outstanding collaboration skills; thrives in a collaborative team environment
• Problem-solving/solutions orientation
• Highly proficient in the use of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
• Acts with integrity and all times, remaining honest, transparent, and respectful in all relationships
• Masters degree/MBA preferred or equivalent experience
• preferably within a dispersed multi-location entity
• Prior experience managing people is also preferred
• Able to work in a high-energy, fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Prefer candidates in the Eastern Time Zone