Senior People Business Partner

Summary

Join Cohere Health as a Senior People Business Partner (PBP) and lead a wide range of HR services, partnering with business stakeholders to optimize talent management. You will provide strategic and tactical HR support to all departments, building a high-performance culture. This role ensures HR strategy aligns with the organization's overall business strategy, requiring strong business acumen and the ability to navigate a dynamic environment. You will partner across the People function to deliver value-added service in all areas of talent management. Success in this role requires empathy, strong communication, and the ability to build relationships with employees and management at all levels. The ideal candidate will be a resourceful and agile problem-solver.

Requirements

• 8+ years of HR Business Partnership, Organizational Design & Development, and Employee Relations experience
• 4+ years driving change management initiatives in a high growth tech environment
• Experience working with technology focused and/or healthcare teams in a high growth tech/health tech environment
• Experience across all facets of HR with a focus on Performance Management, Employee Relations, Compliance, Benefits, and Compensation
• Ability to acquire a thorough understanding of the organization’s organizational structure, jobs, qualifications, compensation, and talent development practices
• Ability to work across all levels within an organization that has included salaried and hourly employees
• Strong ability to influence and drive outcomes that solve problems
• Exceptional interpersonal, coaching, facilitation and negotiation skills. Ability to establish credibility with all levels of employees, as well as ability to build and maintain professional client relationships
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Must be highly organized, flexible, detail-oriented, and capable of balancing competing priorities and meeting deadlines
• Must demonstrate strong judgment and experience assessing strengths, gaps, risk, and opportunities to the business
• Empathetic. Skilled in listening to problems, creatively developing solutions, and clearly articulating a plan of action
• Proficient with ADP, Google Suite, Slack, or other related software
• Located on the east coast or central region

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to design and build organizational capability to deliver against Cohere’s strategic goals and objectives
• Provide strategic business partnership, thought partnership, and coaching to all levels of the organization
• Proactively assess team, manager, and organizational development needs while making recommendations and implementing appropriate solutions
• Utilize a data driven approach to identify trends and recommend proactive solutions for employee relations, performance, retention, engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Coach toward goal-oriented and results-driven leadership in the areas of organizational structure and talent development
• Provide strategic guidance to managers on effective handling of employee relations issues, including input for performance management situations
• Enable day-to-day support to employees by building effective, positive relationships and processes to respond to employee requests, questions, concerns, and suggestions
• Ensure all HR programs are effective and in compliance with local and national regulations
• Scale organizational structure, levels, and core competencies
• Support employee professional development programs including training and coaching opportunities
• Design and deliver people manager training for the organization to ensure alignment of talent strategy and execution
• Work closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention
• Prepare and deliver annual compensation planning for all employees in conjunction with People Operations for the year-end compensation process
• Provide HR policy guidance and interpretation
• Provide guidance and input on business unit restructures, workforce planning and succession planning
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance in partnership with the Legal team
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team to create recruitment plans and job descriptions and participate in the life cycle of the recruitment process with the hiring manager and TA
• Partner with the Finance team to align on budget and headcount planning for business units

Preferred Qualifications

Located in the Greater Boston area

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Bonus