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Posted: 05-Jun-25
Location: Durham, North Carolina
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Internal Number: 251039
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Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. With 388 beds it is the second largest of Duke Health's four hospitals and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services.
The Sr. HR Business Partner's role is to provide strategic partnership in four primary areas: workforce planning, talent and culture strategy, business operations and risk management, and employee relations. The role delivers HR services that address the unique needs of their customers in alignment with overall HR strategies. This role is also responsible for mentoring and/or supervising HR business partners and providing professional HR advisory services by creating a respectful and trusting relationship with managers, leaders, and employees.
Duties and Responsibilities of this Level
Provide strategic direction to higher level leaders (generally AVPs and above). Build and maintain strategic relationships. Partner with key stakeholders and leaders to align talent solutions with operational priorities, forecast future workforce needs to align with business goals, and provide analytics insights to aid informed decision making. Partner with the business on key talent initiatives. Identify solutions to critical workforce planning trends and needs for complex cases or cases that have been escalated from HR business partners (and/or Center of Expertise higher complexity cases). Partner with key stakeholders and leaders to develop effective strategies for leveraging talent, drive culture strategies that match business priorities, create retention strategies, and aid with succession planning and internal mobility. Provide consultative support to leaders to execute total rewards strategy and identify operation risks related to compliance and mitigation strategies. Proactively partner to drive change initiatives, guide leaders through complex employee relations issues and create strategies to mitigate future issues. Handle employee relations escalations from HR business partners. Advise, lead, drive consistency across the business and all stakeholder groups. Monitor, measure and recommend corrective course of action. Collaborate with other Sr. HR business partners across the entities to drive consistency. Create consistent practice, service delivery, practices, day-to-day HR operations across the system. Offer broad project leadership that crosses multiple areas. Financial responsibility - manage project budget and maintain fiscal responsibility. The role may also manage departmental budgets. Consult with HR business partner's for any complex issues. Provide coaching, program advocacy, and other support as needed. Make HR operational level decisions impacting leaders, service lines, and system. Performs other duties as assigned.
? Approve Employee Tuition Assistance requests.
? Provide leadership and supervision in all HR Operations.
? Lead recognition activities to include: Employee Appreciation week and Service Awards, and the Managers Toolkit.
? Develop and approve entity specific HR policies and procedures.
? Provide leadership for direct reports (5 FTEs), to include performance coaching, evaluation, hiring, orientation, onboarding and offboarding.
? Develop communication material related to HR operations.
? Actively participate in DUHS related HR and Compensation projects.
? Ensure HRBPs are well informed on key strategic initiatives and partnered appropriately to meet established deadlines and deliverables.
? Ensure employees are paid timely and solve to root any payroll or compensation related issues.
? Ensure HR meets or exceeds established budget standards.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Work generally requires skills, knowledge, and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration or related field.
Level Characteristics
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Minimum Qualifications
Education
Work generally requires skills, knowledge, and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration or related field.
Experience
Work generally requires five years of experience sufficient to demonstrate expertise in: 'Strategic Human Resources planning' Human Resources program development' Diversity and inclusiveness strategies' Analytical, project management and organizational skills
Degrees, Licensures, Certifications
N/A
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