Director Human Resources Business Partners

Alaska Airlines • WA-SeaTac, WA

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About The Position

The Director, HR Business Partners inspires and leads a strategic business partner team, including programs, and scalable processes to support Alaska Airlines’ high-performance culture. This senior leader forges strong relationships with executive leadership in all divisions by listening, understanding needs, defining shared objectives, proactively consulting, and collaborating to meet organizational goals. They leads the strategy for the Business Partner team’s development and serves as leader and key subject matter expert on high-impact HR initiatives. This role executes strategy and sustainable processes to advance employee engagement and talent development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in human resources, business administration, or other related field or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant HR experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on leadership experience, including leading large groups of employees and leading multiple functions simultaneously in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment, with at least 2 of those years directly leading people.
• Deep experience designing and managing complex processes and projects.
• Good working knowledge of and experience with human resources functions including HRBP teams, compensation, and employee relations.
• Proven change management skills and a thirst for applying research and best practices to existing business problems.
• Excellent strategy, organizational, interpersonal, leadership and customer service skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel for business, often on short notice.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

• PHR or SPHR professional certification.

Responsibilities

• Partners with executive leaders to develop a comprehensive people strategy that addresses organizational effectiveness, onboarding of new leaders, leadership development, engagement, workforce and succession planning, performance management, and training support.
• Establishes appropriate programs to ensure the effectiveness of people strategies, appropriate use of resources, performance against goals, and effectiveness of People team and divisional leaders while managing reports and scorecards to drive results.
• Develops and implements strategy for the HRBP team’s service delivery, setting and maintaining a roadmap for team development that supports the needs of the organization.
• Works with the leaders of HR centers of excellence to enable the business partners to provide integrated and customer-focused HR business solutions to leaders.
• Project manages various people-related and cross-functional projects, including development and implementation of company-wide people initiatives and programs, and ensures change management best practices are applied.
• Partners with the leader of Engagement Programs to promote the survey, communicate survey results, and support leaders in taking action to improve engagement, customer satisfaction, and leadership effectiveness.
• Responsible for governance process for new and changing roles, executing job evaluations, org changes, offers and merit increases in coordination with the Compensation team.
• Partners cross-functionally and cross-divisionally to grow and maintain a high-performance culture and to manage non-performers.
• Cultivates and motivates direct/indirect reports through coaching, mentoring, and by providing regular and meaningful feedback.

Benefits

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air with high priority status
• Select number of confirmed travel credits provided annually
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Quarterly and annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees