People Partner

Fortitude Re•Jersey City, NJ

8h•$165,000 - $205,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The People Partner serves as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, helping them make sound people decisions and build high-performing, engaged teams. This individual-contributor role partners with leaders across complex business areas and leads the development and implementation of solutions to workforce, organizational effectiveness, talent, and change challenges. Working with other People & Culture teams, the People Partner puts practical solutions in place and helps leaders build teams and environments that reflect Fortitude Re’s values and strengthen its culture. The role includes advising leaders on organizational design, compensation planning, retention, employee relations, management coaching, performance management, and change enablement. It also involves leading organizational design, workforce planning, and change initiatives; using workforce data and colleague feedback to identify issues and recommend action; and leveraging approved AI tools to improve analysis and problem-solving.

Requirements

Significant HR experience, including advising senior leaders across complex businesses or varied teams.
Business judgment to weigh risks, costs, colleagues’ needs, and business goals when making recommendations.
Extensive experience leading organization design, workforce planning, change management, talent, performance, and employee relations.
Experience independently leading large, complex projects across teams from problem identification through implementation of solutions.
Ability to use data to identify root causes, assess results, and design solutions.
High change agility and ability to adapt quickly and help others navigate uncertainty.
Curiosity about AI and willingness to learn and use it responsibly, including questioning AI outputs and applying human judgment.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to build trust, influence without authority, and build relationships at all organizational levels.
Comfort working in a fast-paced, quickly evolving organization and navigating ambiguity.
Proficiency in MS365.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Workday, Claude, and Greenhouse.
Advanced AI experience is not required.

Responsibilities

Advise senior leaders on people-related matters, including organizational design, compensation planning, employee retention, employee relations, management coaching, performance management, and change enablement.
Translate business priorities into practical people plans, support their implementation, and assess outcomes.
Present options and trade-offs, constructively challenge thinking, and help senior leaders make informed decisions.
Coach leaders through difficult performance and colleague matters, partnering with Employee Relations and escalating significant risks when needed.
Lead complex organizational design, workforce planning, and people change initiatives, considering impacts across teams.
Collaborate with People & Culture teams to develop talent solutions that address business needs and support engagement, retention, performance, and development.
Stay informed about industry trends and best practices and bring forward fresh ideas and approaches.
Use workforce data and colleague feedback to understand problems, develop insights, test assumptions, and recommend actions.
Use approved AI tools to improve analysis, accelerate problem-solving, and redesign work.
Build relationships and collaborate with senior leadership, People & Culture, and cross-functional departments to deliver solutions that enable business outcomes.