HR Business Partners

Your Role

HR Business Partners are highly business-focused and solutions-oriented change agents. They advise and coach leaders on people’s strategy to drive strong business performance and employee engagement. HR Business Partners help strengthen organizational performance by developing leaders who cultivate, inspire, and engage high-performing teams while ensuring outcomes align with the organization’s values and leadership behaviors. They also help translate organizational strategies into meaningful practices, programs, and tools that create an employee experience employees can take pride in and advocate for.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Align business unit initiatives to the enterprise objectives (think, look and connect enterprise-wide regarding impact, alignment and value)
• Align talent strategies to business goals
• Anticipate talent needs and ensure HR strategies (e.g., org design) are in place and aligned to business outcomes
• Provide data insights and recommendations
• Influence decisions around performance, structure, and engagement with an enterprise mindset
• Collaborate across functions to deliver integrated solutions
• Act as a connector between business leaders and the broader organization
• Support the planning and execution of human capital plans developing people strategies that connect and enable the successful execution of business strategies
• Lead complex initiatives where the impact is significant in supporting the client's needs: - Initiatives include organizational design, talent management, succession planning, compensation (equity, bonus, merit), and management development
• Partner with and between Centers of Excellence (COE's) and other HR teams to deliver seamless human resources processes and programs across the organization
• Strengthen the leadership by providing direct/candid coaching and leadership development to the executive team
• Act as a change-agent as the business continues to reshape itself with a goal of providing a world class customer and employee experience
• Support of employee engagement and culture work
• Broker all HR solutions for clients through specialist/expert HR resources

Future Opportunities

Great talent is always in demand at Blue Shield of California. While there is not a current opening associated with this posting, we are proactively building a network of qualified candidates for future opportunities. We encourage you to apply and stay connected for upcoming roles that match your skills and interests.

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Requires 10 years of prior relevant experience in a strategic Human Resources function role with a minimum of 7 years driving strategic initiatives
• Requires mastery level knowledge of Human Resources
• Requires demonstrated ability to leverage data to develop insights presented to HR and business clients.
• Requires exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to build trusting professional networks
• Requires strong evidence of Project Management Skills
• Requires evidence of strong communication skills (written and verbal) with demonstrated ability to clearly articulate issues to differing audiences, tailoring messaging as appropriate

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

About Blue Shield of California

As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies.

At Blue Shield of California, our mission is to create a healthcare system worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Blue Shield is a U.S. News Best Company to work for, a Deloitte U.S. Best Managed Company and a Top 100 Inspiring Workplace. We were recognized by Fair360 as a Top Regional Company, and one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States by Points of Light. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities – join us!

Our Values:

• Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human. We strive to listen and communicate effectively, showing empathy by understanding others' perspectives.
• Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

Our Workplace Model

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.

• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.