Manager, HR Business Partner

Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a Manager, HR Business Partner (HRBP) with our Disney Vacation Club’s Hilton Head Island Resort.  This person will lead a small team to help drive the various strategies and objectives of this resort to deliver on the Cast and Guest experiences locally while being part of the larger Walt Disney World Resort Operations Team. The individual is responsible for crafting the employee experience, ensuring the company’s talent grows in meaningful ways, and making business leaders and HR as successful as possible. In this role, the Manager contributes to and leads execution of human resources strategies and tactics to support the needs of the Resort. The manager will lead and facilitate all HR services for the client group they support through collaboration with the clients, HR specialty groups and other HR business partners. They will serve as an expert consultant and thought partner to business leaders on all talent matters, including organizational effectiveness, leader effectiveness, organizational design, learning needs/opportunities and conflict resolution.

Join us if you're ready for an opportunity of a lifetime with Disney Experiences (DX)!

What You Will Do

• Work with HR, Employees and Leaders to create a place where employees want to work and can be successful

• Establish and maintain an intimate understanding of the client organizations and the business, in the interest of building effective and productive working relationships with internal partners and clients, at all levels of the organization.

• Proactively assess business and organizational performance to recommend and drive action through a consultative, “influence without authority” approach.

• Coach and guide the Resort General Manager on HR policies and processes, including talent planning, learning and development, and performance management to promote engagement and a culture of continuous growth and development.

• Plan and lead organization design projects to streamline and implement new structures, roles and/or processes that build speed and efficiency and support rapidly shifting business demands.

• Assess organizational performance systemically, defining talent gaps and proposing HR solutions that support client strategic objectives.

• Coach business leaders on key organizational and performance management issues.

• Plan and facilitate work sessions to develop business strategies (i.e. vision, mission, value, objectives) that help support organizational focus, efficiency, speed, and business results.

• Create and implement a lifecycle approach to talent management focused on forecasting, staffing, on-boarding, development, performance management, career / succession planning, talent movement and retention, leveraging rigorous people analytics and insights.

• Collaborate with recruitment, with a strong focus on acquiring and retaining top talent and on building pipeline for future needs.

• Use understanding of individual and organizational dynamics to facilitate talent movement into and throughout the organization.

• Develop thoughtful, coordinated approaches to promote diversity and inclusion in talent attraction, development and retention.

• Assess employee training and development needs based on business strategy to help close gaps between current and future skills.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum of 5 progressive years' experience as an HR Business Partner in a dynamic environment, with specific experience in strategy development, organizational design, talent management and change management.

• Experience working with senior executives in an “influence-without-authority” role.

• Ability to work in and handle ambiguity – dealing with issues that do not always have a process or a system in place.

• Ability to position self as credible (garners respect, acts with integrity, keeps commitments); proactive (has a point of view, challenges assumptions, takes initiative); and a trusted thought-partner (builds relationships, delivers results).

• Independent work style, balancing the need for collaboration with minimal direction.

• Experience and ability to balance business partnering skills with employee advocacy.

• Possesses both critical thinking capability and hands-on HR business plan implementation experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or relevant graduate degree preferred.

Education

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Business Management, Human Resources Management or related discipline or equivalent work experience.

The hiring range for this position in Hilton Head, SC is $109,800 to $134,200 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.