Director, Human Resources Business Partner

The Director level Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) serves as a visible and value-added strategic partner within Assurant and the Connected Living business.

Assurant, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global provider of housing and lifestyle solutions that support, protect and connect major consumer purchases.

Assurant offers mobile device solutions; extended service contracts; vehicle protection services; pre-funded funeral insurance; renters insurance and lender-placed homeowners insurance.

Connected Living, partners with industry-leading clients
– mobile carriers, multi-service operators (such as cable/internet providers), retailers, original equipment manufacturers and financial institutions
– around the world to bring protection products and solutions to consumers.

The Director, HRBP will be accountable for aligning people strategy with client group strategy through consultative guidance and support to leaders to achieve business results.

The successful candidate contributes to the business strategy by helping business leaders identify, prioritize, and build organizational capabilities, structures, processes, and behaviors.

In collaboration with HR Operations, the Employee Relations Center, and Centers of Excellence, the Director, HRBP develops integrated approaches to further business objectives of the client group as well as solutions to human resources related challenges.

The Director, HRBP works in collaboration with members of the COEs, acting as a consultant and gatekeeper to ensure that the best resources are leveraged in problem solving and strategy creation.

In addition, the successful candidate will work in collaboration with the HR Operations area, and HR Partners in the Employee Relations center, to ensure that appropriate analytics, processes, and policies are in place throughout the client group.

The Director, HRBP must have a strong knowledge of all of the following disciplines to effectively align people and business strategy and enable strong results.

Workforce Planning Talent Acquisition Talent Management / Development Employee Engagement Learning and Development Performance Management Organizational Change Organizational Design Acquisition, Divestiture, Integration of organizations HR Data Analytics Examples of the use of knowledge in the disciplines above would include: Understand key business performance targets and their related talent implications.

Assist in forecasting and planning talent pipeline requirements.

Ensure robust talent development and succession planning to support current and future business capability needs.

Lead employee engagement initiatives aligned and intended to promote strong client experiences.

Develop and lead change management programs to facilitate organization transformation.

Create, in collaboration with COEs, new organization designs, new compensation plans or packages.

Qualifications & Requirements Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

6-9 years of HR experience, 2-3 of which should include creation of people strategy and implementation for departments or functional areas (e.g.

Information Technology or Finance).

Advanced influencing skills and effectiveness operating within a highly matrixed environment.

Strong Financial Acumen/Understanding of annual and long-term budgeting cycles.

Demonstrated track record of planning / organizing and executing complex work initiatives or projects.

Demonstration of strong collaboration skills with peers and senior (VP level and above) business leaders.

Ability to communicate up, down, and across to a variety of constituencies, both verbally and in writing.

Strong core HR Knowledge and experience (i.e, talent acquisition, workforce planning, employee engagement, organization design, change management, performance management, project management, problem solving, coaching, , compensation) PHR/ SPHR or equivalent designation to demonstrate continuous learning and contemporary knowledge of HR law/compliance, policy, and process.

Preferred Qualifications Bilingual with ability to read, write and speak English & Spanish fluently