Senior HR Business Partner (Strategic Advisor)

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

9d•$103,000 - $155,000

About The Position

The Senior HR Business Partner (HRBP) serves as a strategic consultant to senior leaders, shaping and executing integrated people and organizational strategies that support business outcomes. The role applies business acumen, systems thinking, market insights, and change leadership to align talent, structure, and culture with enterprise priorities. It operates with high autonomy and judgment, making strategic decisions across a division or cross-functional area that affect workforce planning and design, leadership capability, and organizational performance and effectiveness. The Senior HRBP integrates risk, governance, compliance, and change considerations into strategic planning and execution while balancing business adaptability with enterprise consistency. The HRBP job family partners with business leaders and HR Centers of Excellence as consultants and integrators to drive workforce effectiveness, organizational agility, and leadership capability. At Freddie Mac, this work contributes to the mission of Making Home Possible.

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, change leadership, and applying 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.
Commitment to follow acceptable-use policies, support regulatory mandates, protect Freddie Mac from threats and risk, and comply with privacy and security obligations.

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 organization design and workforce optimization.
Demonstrate leadership behaviors that promote accountability and innovation.
Translate business objectives into people and organizational strategies with measurable impact.
Lead or support workforce planning, organization 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 deliver seamless, scalable, and sustainable 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.