Senior HR Business Partner (Strategic Advisor)

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

About The Position

The Senior HR Business Partner (HRBP) acts as a strategic consultant to senior leaders, shaping and executing integrated people and organizational strategies that drive business outcomes. The role applies business acumen, systems thinking, market insights, and change leadership to align talent, structure, and culture with enterprise priorities. Operating with high autonomy and professional judgment, the Senior HRBP makes strategic decisions across a division or cross-functional area that affect workforce planning and design, leadership capability, and organizational performance and effectiveness. The role integrates risk, governance, compliance, and change considerations into strategic planning and execution while balancing business adaptability with enterprise consistency. The Senior HRBP partners with business leaders and HR Centers of Excellence to advance workforce effectiveness, organizational agility, and leadership capability. The role delivers measurable workforce and organizational outcomes, builds trusted relationships with senior leaders through evidence-based consultation and coaching, and uses workforce analytics, market insights, recommendations, and data storytelling to influence leadership decisions. It drives change adoption, enhances organizational effectiveness through design and workforce optimization, and demonstrates leadership behaviors that promote accountability and innovation.

Requirements

At least 7 years of progressive experience in human resources, business consulting, or related strategic roles.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in human resources, business, or a related field.
Advanced expertise in organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, and change leadership.
Ability to apply business and financial acumen to workforce decisions.
Ability to operate with broad autonomy and professional judgment, evaluate tradeoffs, and make strategic decisions affecting divisional workforce and organizational outcomes.
Advanced consulting, facilitation, communication, data storytelling, and stakeholder influence skills.
Demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders and align diverse partners.
Ability to lead through ambiguity, influence without formal authority, and drive enterprise alignment.
Integrity, adaptability, accountability, and risk ownership.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.

Responsibilities

Deliver measurable workforce and organizational outcomes that advance business objectives.
Build trusted relationships with senior leaders through evidence-based consultation, coaching, and guidance on organizational performance and culture.
Influence leadership decisions using workforce analytics, business context, market insights, evidence-based recommendations, data storytelling, and visualization.
Drive change adoption that improves engagement, culture, and performance.
Enhance organizational effectiveness through organizational design and workforce optimization.
Translate business objectives into people and organizational strategies with measurable impact.
Lead or support workforce planning, organizational design, and change initiatives to optimize structure and capability.
Develop and execute plans to align workforce capacity, capability, and composition with current and future business strategy.
Shape talent strategies that foster engagement, accountability, and leadership growth.
Partner across business functions to design and deliver scalable, sustainable, business-driven workforce solutions.
Promote a high-performance culture that supports organizational values and strategic direction.
Apply business knowledge and workforce insights to inform decision-making.
Identify, assess, and mitigate people, operational, and organizational risks affecting business continuity, performance, culture, or compliance.
Integrate risk, governance, compliance, and change considerations into strategic planning and execution.
Demonstrate leadership behaviors that promote accountability and innovation.