Sr. Director, HR Business Partner

Why Hearst Magazines?

Hearst Magazines' portfolio of more than 25 powerful brands in the U.S. - including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics - inspires, entertains and builds new and bold experiences for an engaged and growing audience across digital, video, social and print, reaching nearly 139 million readers and site visitors each month. With sophisticated content creation, cutting-edge technology and industry-leading data capabilities, we make media and products that move people across all platforms.

We are a global media company that publishes nearly 260 magazine editions and 200 websites around the world and, together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

Your Impact

The Sr. Director, Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) collaborates with business leaders, Centers of Excellence and Corporate team members to design and execute an employee experience and talent strategy that enables their business units to achieve business outcomes. Success in this role is reflected through measurable and positive impact in the areas of Employee Experience, Organizational Design and Performance Management for their specific business unit.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with senior Hearst Magazines Business leaders and their teams to understand the impact of internal and external factors on the business unit, and leverage these insights to develop an effective, business-aligned people strategy. Our ideal candidate has strong business acumen, coaching and consulting skills, an ability to balance analytics and intuition in decision-making, and a passion for growing talent within an organization.

What You'll Do:

• Translate knowledge of the business unit and its strategic objectives into a people strategy, ensuring employees with the right capabilities are in the right place at the right cost
• Identify talent needs, risks, and gaps. Leverage Talent Review/Succession Planning processes and systems to identify, align, and develop capabilities to achieve business results
• Play key leadership role in diagnosis and assessment of leadership development needs; partner with leaders in the identification and nomination of high-potential talent within the business unit
• Translate business unit strategy and create long-term business-specific HR strategies to drive the successful completion of business unit goals
• Maintain a pulse on employee engagement through regular interaction and integration into the daily operations of their business unit, providing thought leadership to help drive retention
• Identify and assess need for highly complex or cross-functional change management initiatives; consult on organizational impact of process improvement initiatives
• Oversee governance of change management initiatives, including monitoring and maintaining progress against metrics and milestones, ensure change is embedded in the culture long-term, and provide ongoing coaching and support

What You'll Need:

• Strategic Thinking:Understanding of business issues and opportunities and ability to translate them into a vision, strategy, and action plan.
• Solution Orientation: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis and the ability to determine the root cause of problems and create alternative solutions that resolve the problems in the best interest of the business.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and use judgment to make sound decisions.
• Collaboration & Strong Relationship Orientation: Ability to build partnerships with key business stakeholders to identify opportunities to leverage smarter decision-making across our organization. Collaboration skills are critical.
• Change Management: Ability to align the organization's people and culture with changes in business strategy, organizational structure, technology, and business processes. Act as a change agent to implement and manage significant change initiatives that have a material to the organization.
• Business Acumen: Awareness of the organization's vision, structure, culture, philosophy, operating principles, and values. Knowledge, insight, and understanding of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this appropriately to diverse situations.
• Labor Relations: Experience with an organized workforce a plus

• 5+ years direct experience
• Prior experience leading, developing and coaching colleagues of various levels
• Ability to lead
• cross-functionally and instill trust across hierarchy levels on high impact, high-visibility Divisional People strategies
• Intellectually curious with strong analytical skills, drawing actionable insights and recommendations, and building strategies against the analysis
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, storytelling and PowerPoint/presentation skills for diverse audiences
• Strategic, creative, innovative thinker able to apply structure and analytical rigor to complex problems and associated decision-making
• Ability to juggle multiple projects - can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize tasks, and effectively communicate timelines
• Maintains confidentiality and security of sensitive company information
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint

This role requires the position to be located in New York at least 2 days per week.

The base salary for this role is between $156,800 and $200,000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.