Sr. Human Resources Business Partner

RGA • Minneapolis, MO

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

You desire impactful work. You’re RGA ready RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies , we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all. Plans, manages, and implements forward-thinking HR strategies and initiatives. Provides a single point of contact to leaders to provide strategic leadership and expertise in implementing HR initiatives that align the people capabilities with the business strategies. Understands the business issues and creates solutions that address current and future needs. Guides leaders to build their functional people strategy aligned to global RGA strategies (philosophies, programs, initiatives) always balanced with local customs and regulations. This role builds relationships and works with business leaders and their organizations to provide comprehensive, professional HR guidance and support with the objective to clarify strategy, manage talent, create value added organizational capabilities and deliver supporting HR strategies. The role also acts as a liaison with internal clients to ensure that HR services are aligned to achieve business strategy. The role also resolves complex problems within business group; works independently with minimal guidance and is viewed as a knowledge resource by others. This role influences and executes Human Resources practices and objectives that will provide an employee-oriented, high-performance culture that emphasizes empowerment, quality, productivity and standards, goal attainment, and the recruitment and ongoing development of a high performing workforce. This role is hybrid and can be located in Minneapolis or Chesterfield.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related work experience
• 10 years of related human resources experience
• 3 years of strategic HR business partner experience
• Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines.
• Consulting on HR practices, recruiting/talent acquisition, associate relations, and employment laws.
• In addition to leading and consulting, must have hands-on skills.
• Conflict resolution, handling face-to-face confrontations, mediating groups and achieving positive results.
• Conducting workplace investigations and knowledge of legal laws and issues relating to investigations.
• Oral and written communication, demonstrating the ability to convey business terminology that is meaningful and well received
• Investigative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and/or teams simultaneously and to translate business needs and problems into viable/ accepted solutions
• Customer relationship management and change management
• Persuasion and negotiating skills when working with internal/ external customers
• Knowledge leveraging Workday or other HR technology system related software
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Human Resources, MBA is preferred
• PHR/SPHR certification preferred
• Experience working in a global, matrix organization preferred
• Insurance or Financial Services experience preferred
• Spanish as a second language is an asset

Responsibilities

• Consultation: Identifies opportunities for improving business functions and processes.
• Provides guidance to organizational stakeholders in making strategic business decisions.
• Develops and executes solutions to business challenges in alignment with organizational goals.
• Manages, facilitates, and/or support projects from concept to completion, within scope, budget, timelines, and resource constraints.
• Identifies, monitors, assesses, reports, and mitigates potential risks to business decisions and situations.
• Strategic Business Partnerships : Demonstrates understanding of talent analytics.
• Handles, analyzes, interprets, and communicates data effectively and responsibly to drive business outcomes.
• Extracts meaningful information from a variety of data sources to guide business and HR decisions.
• Builds a narrative using data and visualizations from data analysis to drive HR and strategic business decision-making.
• Decision Analytics : Demonstrates understanding of talent analytics.
• Handles, analyzes, interprets, and communicates data effectively and responsibly to drive business outcomes.
• Extracts meaningful information from a variety of data sources to guide business and HR decisions.
• Builds a narrative using data and visualizations from data analysis to drive HR and strategic business decision-making.
• Change Champion : Supports and coaches leaders and managers in successfully steering and facilitating their teams through both planned and unplanned change by engaging the team members to effectively increase awareness, acceptance, and adoption as employees transition behaviors from current state to future change state.
• Assesses and aids in shaping organizational and team culture.
• Demonstrates understanding of what impacts attitudes and behaviors towards the organization and employees’ day-to-day experiences.

Benefits

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.
• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.
• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.
• RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees