Remote Human Resources Business Partner

Summary

Join Coupa, a pioneering technology company that empowers businesses with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend. As an HR Business Partner, you will collaborate with clients to provide proactive consultation on workforce planning, talent management, employee relations, and organizational effectiveness.

Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of total HR business partner experience
• Understanding of, and experience with, core aspects of Human Resource Management (staffing; employee relations; labor relations; performance management; leadership development; training)
• Previous talent management and succession planning experience preferred
• Proven ability to influence decision making; courage to make tough decisions and deliver difficult messages with professional and poise
• Must possess consultative style and approach with proven ability to develop credible relationships
• Comfortable working in ambiguous business situations; highly adaptable to a fluid and ever-changing work environment
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills
• Ability to analyze data and gather insights
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Exercise a high degree of professionalism and diplomacy in interactions with all levels of the organization
• Strong experience and demonstrated skills in handling a variety of employee relations matters
• Excellent follow-through skills and the ability to anticipate and address business needs proactively
• Possess a strong work ethic; self-motivated with a desire to take initiative and look for ways to improve processes and create efficiencies; have a strong sense of urgency
• Excellent time management and organizational skills in managing through multiple priorities with overlapping tasks across multiple businesses
• Team-oriented attitude balanced with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Maintains strict confidentiality and adheres to a high standard of professional conduct
• Strong knowledge in employment laws; multi-jurisdiction experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Partnering with aligned HRBPs: provide functional and local HR support; project manage and execute talent practices and other key initiatives
• Providing employee relations support including policy implementation, interpretation and enforcement; conduct employee investigations and partner with Employee Relations where needed
• Supporting business goals, strengthen organizational effectiveness, impact performance, retention, employee engagement, and promote the development of employees and managers
• Provide analytics and data insights into their client groups’ most pressing needs
• Partnering with HR Centers of Excellence to create an environment that optimizes the critical people resources and matches them to the needs of the business
• Actively engaging with all levels of employees to create and sustain a solid relationship network, maintain a reliable pulse on organization dynamics and behaviors that affect employee engagement and business goals
• Proactively recommending actions to management where concerns may arise, or patterns of employee issues could emerge
• Leading change within the business; design processes and approaches which prepare employees for ongoing change and transformation