Hr Business Partner Director

Summary

Join Western Digital's People Solutions team as a Director, Business & People Partner (BPP), strategically partnering with senior leaders in Corporate Services business units. Lead a team of Business & People Partners to drive impactful initiatives. As a trusted advisor, you'll help define a world-class people strategy to attract, engage, and develop the workforce. This global role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and collaboration skills. You will leverage data to drive insights and actions, facilitating change management initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to shape people initiatives, programs, and processes within a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with Master's degree or relevant certification preferred
• 10-12+ years of experience in Human Resources or relevant experience with at least 4-6 years leading/managing teams
• Demonstrates an inclusive leadership style with an emphasis on results and developing high performing team members
• Experience working and navigating matrixed and global teams – experience in working with teams in India, Israel and Asia are a plus
• Demonstrated success in developing cutting edge global strategy and driving process improvements in a global workplace
• Experience leading transformation and change initiatives
• Proven track record of influencing, leading and facilitating large scale strategic initiatives with multiple senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaborative skills, including strong presentation skills, across levels, with an ability to persuade and influence, and the ability to build alignment, enthusiasm, and commitment
• Goal-oriented, proactive, accountable and passionate about driving results
• Strong team leadership expertise in coaching and developing others toward future professional growth and learning
• Strong business and financial acumen
• An agile and continuous learner with personal resilience and an ability to deal with ambiguity

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor and strategic HR partner to one or more senior executives
• Actively engage business leaders to plan and execute effective business strategies that align with global people solutions priorities and drive business results
• Leverage deep understanding of the business to translate and drive clear business-focused talent, engagement and organizational strategies that achieve business outcomes, using data to drive insights and actions
• Drive the BU talent agenda and provides leadership on talent management, including assessing, developing, coaching and rewarding global talent
• Forge strong partnerships with teams across the People Solutions ecosystem, including COE and other partners to identify and deliver fit for purpose solutions
• Facilitate change management initiatives with a focus on culture, inclusion, leadership capabilities and engagement

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or relevant certification
• Experience working with teams in India, Israel and Asia

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents