Human Resources Business Partner

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) to join the HR team of a growing international organization in Virginia Beach VA.

This position is ideal for a senior-minded HR professional who enjoys operating as a strategic advisor to business leaders while remaining comfortable with hands-on HR responsibilities. The HRBP will partner closely with leadership on workforce strategy employee relations organizational effectiveness engagement talent initiatives and day-to-day HR matters.

The successful candidate will bring strong HR generalist experience sound employee-relations judgment executive presence and the ability to translate business priorities into practical people strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Business & People Strategy

• Serve as a trusted HR advisor to senior leaders and business stakeholders.
• Translate business priorities into workforce talent engagement and employee-experience strategies.
• Advise leadership on organizational design leadership effectiveness workforce challenges culture and change initiatives.
• Support workforce planning budgeting merit planning talent reviews and succession planning.
• Identify workforce risks and opportunities involving capacity capability engagement performance and retention.
• Coach leaders and reinforce accountability for people culture and performance outcomes.

Employee Relations & HR Partnership

• Provide guidance on complex employee-relations and performance-management matters.
• Conduct or support investigations and recommend fair consistent and compliant solutions.
• Coach managers through difficult employee situations and organizational challenges.
• Identify potential employee leadership retention and compliance risks.
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality objectivity ethics and professional judgment.

Employee Experience & Engagement

• Support the employee lifecycle from onboarding through development engagement and retention.
• Analyze employee feedback and engagement information to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and implement targeted engagement initiatives and action plans.
• Support employee surveys pulse checks focus groups communications and culture initiatives.
• Coach leaders on practices that strengthen trust inclusion engagement and performance.

Talent & Organizational Effectiveness

• Partner with leaders on hiring strategies workforce planning organizational capability and role design.
• Contribute to succession planning and leadership-development discussions.
• Partner with internal HR stakeholders on compensation benefits talent acquisition and employee development.
• Help create effective onboarding and early-tenure experiences that improve productivity and retention.
• Lead or contribute to organizational change and continuous-improvement initiatives.

HR Operations & People Analytics

• Support effective HR operations and maintain accurate employee information within HR systems.
• Analyze workforce metrics related to headcount hiring attrition engagement costs and other HR KPIs.
• Prepare reports and insights that support leadership decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve automate or streamline HR processes.
• Support employee inquiries vendor coordination annual HR cycles and other operational requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required.
• 5 years of progressive Human Resources experience.
• Previous HR Business Partner experience or strong senior-level HR generalist experience.
• Demonstrated experience partnering directly with senior leaders.
• Strong employee-relations and performance-management experience.
• Proven ability to lead HR initiatives projects or organizational change.
• Experience managing multiple projects priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to collect analyze synthesize and communicate HR/workforce data.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office including Excel PowerPoint Word and Outlook.
• Strong written verbal presentation and interpersonal communication skills.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate can operate comfortably at both the strategic and tactical levels. You can advise an executive on a complex workforce issue and then personally execute the HR work necessary to move the solution forward.

You should be able to demonstrate specific examples of:

• Building credibility and trusted relationships with senior leadership.
• Leading HR initiatives and organizational change.
• Managing challenging employee-relations situations.
• Influencing leaders and constructively challenging decisions when appropriate.
• Improving employee engagement retention processes or organizational effectiveness.
• Using workforce data and HR metrics to support business decisions.
• Balancing strategic HR priorities with hands-on operational responsibilities.

Strong candidates will be proactive collaborative process-oriented comfortable with constructive conflict and able to communicate effectively with employees and executives alike.

Work Environment & Benefits

This position offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative team-oriented environment with exposure to an international organization and cross-functional HR initiatives.

The benefits package includes:

• Competitive base compensation.
• Discretionary annual bonus opportunity.
• Strong 401(k) matching program.
• Paid vacation sick time and holidays.
• Competitive health-insurance benefits.
• Professional and leadership-development opportunities.
• Employee wellness and engagement programs.
• One remote workday per week.

Candidates must currently be within commuting distance of Virginia Beach VA and comfortable working onsite approximately four days per week.