Senior Manager, Human Resources Business Partner

Cox Automotive is currently looking for a Senior Manager, HR Business Partner to join our team in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Cox Automotive People Strategies:

Cox Automotive People Strategies is transforming Human Resources the same way our company transforms the way the world buys, sells and owns cars.

Through strategic imagination, agility, resilience, and active collaboration, we deliver the global talent and organizational strategies that deliver results for our company.

We are preparing for the future of our industry and the workplace by devising progressive HR and talent solutions that empower our team members and enable a culture of collaboration and innovation.

We are looking for professionals who have a futurist view, think on their feet, and focus their efforts on strategic programs with the greatest potential for positive impact.

The Role:

The Senior Manager, HR Business Partner serves as an influential people partner, advising clients, and driving processes across the Mobility Solutions Group.

They will play a key role in developing and implementing the HR strategy and programs in support of short-term and long-term business goals with the overall goal of attracting, retaining, and developing the best talent. This individual will manage 2 direct reports who directly partner with businesses that are in growth mode.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the next generation of Cox Automotive People Solutions leaders.

Build a high-performing organization and deliver effective leadership to the HRBP team and function.

• Develop and lead people strategy opportunities and choices to compete and succeed.

Contribute to the execution of the business plan through the creation and implementation of People Strategies that attract, develop and retain Team Members.

Collaborate with and influence senior leaders to prioritize strategic people priorities and solutions that accelerate the achievement of business priorities through talent management, diversity and inclusion, rewards and recognition, and organizational effectiveness.

• Design and create the organization that will deliver business success.

Proactively challenge the established organization structure of the client unit to drive superior performance.

Using expertise as the HR architect, enable the business to be successful by creating a fit for the future organization that delivers organizational effectiveness through structure, process, value stream, reward and recognition and management mechanisms.

• Create the culture that enables the business to be successful.

Develop and drive the employee engagement strategy to help make Cox Automotive the very best place to be.

Be the cultural enabler for your business.

Establish and maintain relationships through an environment that fosters communication and collaboration.

• Promote and focus a culture and environment that is productive, open and empowering and coach others to behave in line with our management and leadership principles.

• Resource the organization to enable current and future success.

Develop and execute resourcing and talent strategy for market/business/function that ensures we have the right people in the right place at the right time.

Build capability to ensure long term success.

• Interpret data insightfully and generate original insights for strategic talent priorities.

Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to solve problems and drive continuous improvement of talent priorities.

Be an insight advocate that reviews external data and trends and provides relevant insight back into the business.

Creating winning solutions to keep the business ahead of the competition.

• Deliver better, quicker results through the expertise, resources and connections of your network.

Work collaboratively with People Strategies Centers of Excellence to optimize the effectiveness of the business.

Be the influencer for the rest of People Strategies, ensuring market/business/function receives the best support to support the delivery of the business and people strategies.

• Anticipate and respond to changing business needs.

Influence lasting change in assigned businesses by serving as a change advocate on companywide strategies and initiatives. 

• Influence, lead, manage and motivate direct reports who in turn provide day-to-day HR support to their assigned business area.

• Serve as a change agent and champion for the rollout of company-wide talent-related strategies and initiatives that support the success of the organization’s growth and reinforce a collaborative, aligned, and engaged culture.

• Consult proactively with peers and business leaders in order to create strategies specific to their business that will minimize risk related to hiring, retention, employee relations, bench-building, etc.

• Ensure that HR processes are implemented and managed in a consistent, measurable and effective manner.

• Partner with business leaders in the planning and conducting of business meetings, talent reviews, strategic plans, workforce planning, analysis of HR measures, etc.; ensure HR objectives are shared and delivered in concert with business operating objectives.

• Lead and execute projects across the Mobility HR Business Partner team.

• Flexibility to travel up to 40%.

Qualifications:

• Where permitted by applicable law, must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be considered for this U.S.

based job.

(Reasonable accommodations for medical and religious objections will be considered.)

• Bachelor’s degree in business, HR or related field and 10 years of progressive experience in HR disciplines with at least 3 years of experience in a management/leadership role or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with, coaching, and influencing senior leaders.

• Proven experience in a leadership role in a growing, evolving organization.

• Strong HR and business acumen, including problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and self-initiative.

• Active emotional intelligence; must have a precise ability to listen, ask questions, so to understand others and adjust one’s own actions.

• Must have the ability to diagnose a problem and identify and drive appropriate solutions.

• Multi-site experience or scope, complexity equivalent.

• 4+ years of experience managing HR professionals and/or people leaders.

• Graduate degree in business, HR or a related field.

• HR certification such as PHR, SPHR or GPHR.

• Demonstrated ability to drive human resource strategies and programs in a complex, fast growing, and dynamic environment.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a geographically dispersed and matrix organization.

Who We Are

About Cox Automotive

There’s nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive.

We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach.

We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone.

Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward.

Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

About Cox 

We are the Cox family of businesses.

We’ve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us.

Our primary divisions – Cox Communications and Cox Automotive – are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators. We’re also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation. We’re looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow.

Sound intriguing?

Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you’ll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.

Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.