Senior Director - Human Resources Business Partner

Overview

When you join Hines, you will embark on a career journey fueled by vision and guided by leaders who set the standards of our industry. Our legacy is rooted in innovation and excellence, earning us a spot on Fast Company’s esteemed annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, as well as recognition as one of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Companies to Work For in 2024. Discover endless opportunities to grow and make your mark at Hines.

Responsibilities

The Senior Director, Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) serves as a strategic advisor to leaders across Global Real Estate Solutions, supporting Client Partnerships, Management Solutions, and Conceptual Construction Group. This leader connects business priorities with people strategies to strengthen organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, talent, and employee experience across a global, matrixed organization.

Working as part of One HR, the Senior Director partners closely with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs), Local HR teams, and business leaders to apply enterprise strategies consistently while adapting implementation to business, geographic, and regulatory needs. The role brings a forward-looking perspective to workforce and talent decisions and helps leaders build the capabilities and organization needed to deliver for clients and the business.

• Advise business leaders: Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and provide practical, data-informed guidance on people and organizational matters. Connect business strategy to workforce priorities, leadership actions, and talent decisions.
• Shape organizational effectiveness: Partner on organization design, workforce planning, spans and layers, role clarity, succession, and capability needs. Help leaders assess whether the organization is positioned to support client service, growth, accountability, and effective decision-making.
• Lead talent and performance practices: Identify talent issues before impacting the business: Guide talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, performance management, career growth, and retention strategies in partnership with business leaders and relevant COEs.
• Support change and transformation: Advise leaders through organizational change, business transformation, and evolving operating models. Develop change approaches and communications that build understanding, engagement, and sustained adoption.
• Strengthen culture and employee experience: Use employee feedback, people data, and business insight to identify themes and opportunities. Partner with leaders to set priorities, take action, and monitor progress.
• Provide sound employee relations guidance: Coach leaders through complex employee matters, performance concerns, and workplace issues. Partner with Local HR, Employee Relations, Legal, and other specialists as appropriate, applying sound judgment and consistent processes.
• Connect the business with HR expertise: Translate business needs into clear priorities for COEs and other HR partners. Help shape practical enterprise solutions and support their implementation across business groups and locations.
• Promote effective global and local partnership: Work with Local HR and regional leaders to coordinate support, clarify decision rights, and address local requirements while maintaining alignment with global HR strategies and standards.
• Use data to guide decisions: Interpret workforce, talent, engagement, and organizational data to identify risks, trends, and opportunities. Present clear insights and recommendations to business leaders.
• Lead through influence: Coordinate HR support across the portfolio, share practices across business groups, and contribute to broader HR priorities and operating model improvements.
• Manage HR-wide priorities: Serve as a proactive participant in HR wide priorities and assist with elevating our service delivery model; project manager for cross-functional HR priorities, coordinating plans, owners, timelines, dependencies, communications, and progress updates to keep work aligned and moving forward.

Leadership Attributes

• Builds credibility and trust with senior leaders, employees, and HR colleagues.
• Exercises sound judgment, discretion, and a balanced perspective.
• Brings a global mindset and a strong understanding of business and client needs.
• Leads through collaboration, accountability, and influence.
• Navigates ambiguity and helps others move from discussion to action.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including senior-level HR business partnership in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives and translate business strategy into people and organizational priorities.
• Experience with organization design, workforce planning, talent and succession, performance management, change leadership, and employee relations.
• Experience supporting global teams and working across different geographies, cultures, and regulatory environments.
• Strong analytical and business acumen, including the ability to use workforce data to inform decisions and communicate recommendations clearly.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to balance enterprise consistency with practical adaptation to business and local needs.
• Experience in real estate, property or portfolio management, investment, or client-oriented professional services is an advantage.

Closing

At Hines, we believe the built world is ultimately about people. As one of the world’s largest privately held real assets firms, we bring nearly seven decades of investment, development, and management experience to work that shapes cities and communities around the world.

Our people make that possible. Across 29 countries, more than 4,600 colleagues bring different perspectives and expertise to Hines, with opportunities to take on meaningful responsibility, learn from leaders across the business, and build a career with room to evolve. We support that journey through professional development, competitive rewards, comprehensive benefits, and a culture grounded in trust and high standards.

Hines is proud to be named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2024.

We are an equal opportunity employer and support workforce diversity.

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