Senior Director - People Business Partner
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Expert
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Hybrid
People & HRHR Generalist & Employee Relations
About the job
Requirements
- At least 12 years of experience working in a Senior Business Partner role, including at least 10 years in a leadership role.
- Experience working in a global matrix-led organization.
- Human Resources-related certification, such as CIPD, SHRM, or HRCI.
- Strong business judgment and understanding of business strategy, customer needs, and the broader marketplace.
- Demonstrated ability to use artificial-intelligence-enabled technologies, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, to enhance business performance, drive organizational effectiveness, improve workforce decision-making, and lead responsible and ethical adoption of innovative ways of working.
- Ability to analyze large data sets, derive insights, identify key issues, and prepare cogent recommendations.
- Experience in talent management, organizational effectiveness and design, change management, and coaching, with the ability to expand and execute talent strategy.
- Ability to influence leaders and employees in making talent and business decisions that drive business outcomes, supported by strong verbal and written communication, advanced emotional intelligence, and the ability to navigate complex business structures.
- Experience managing complex employee-relations cases.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- Ability to solve problems and navigate dynamic, ambiguous situations.
- Ability to collaborate with and connect people and teams to drive success.
- Commitment to continuous growth and learning through stakeholder relationships, expert and colleague interaction, mentoring, and structured courses and programs.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership and expert guidance to assigned commercial client groups, including consultation and delivery of People programs to achieve commercial objectives.
- Manage a team of People Business Partners to provide effective and timely People support and consultation to assigned client groups.
- Lead organization-design activities and talent-management strategies to implement structures, roles, and processes aligned with changing business demands.
- Leverage complex data and people analytics to provide insights into business and talent trends that inform commercial and People priorities.
- Use Microsoft 365 Copilot and other approved artificial-intelligence tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize information, prepare leadership communications, and generate actionable insights.
- Champion adoption of artificial-intelligence-enabled ways of working across client groups to improve productivity, decision quality, and organizational effectiveness.
- Present insights in a simple, creative, and relevant way that challenges current thinking, informs business decisions, and demonstrates how decisions affect business outcomes.
- Advise leaders on complex issues related to organization design, organizational development, and change leadership.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to employees and leaders at all organizational levels on People-related matters.
- Coach leaders to build leadership capabilities and create a culture of followership within their teams and with key internal stakeholders.
- Work with senior leaders to implement and manage People processes, including year-end performance management, performance assessment, calibration, succession planning, and compensation planning.
- Initiate and lead cross-functional People team projects.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge and experience using the Workday human resources information system.
About the company
Dun & Bradstreet aggregates and analyzes business information to help organizations improve performance. Its Data Cloud holds data on hundreds of millions of businesses, which clients access through subscriptions to data and analytics platforms, plus one-time reports and data services. The product works by collecting and organizing commercial data such as credit reports, supplier risk, and marketing data, then delivering insights that support risk management, sales, and marketing decisions. Compared with competitors, Dun & Bradstreet emphasizes a large, integrated data and analytics platform that combines extensive business data with practical software tools and reports, enabling customers to act on findings across risk, marketing, and growth opportunities. The company’s goal is to help clients make informed decisions, reduce risk, and identify opportunities to grow their business.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Jacksonville, Florida
Founded
1840
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 Microsoft Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365 integrations expand enterprise distribution.
- D&B says AI workflows cut compliance processing 70-96%, boosting buyer urgency.
- Perplexity, Databricks, and OpenAI partnerships place D&B inside daily enterprise tools.
What critics are saying
- A September 2026 securities lawsuit attacks the 2025 merger process and disclosures.
- Private ownership under Clearlake pressures headcount, spending, and long-term product investment.
- OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and IBM can commoditize access to D&B data.
What makes Dun & Bradstreet unique
- D-U-N-S Number anchors D&B Commercial Graph across 650 million entities and relationships.
- Verified data plus 100 billion monthly checks create auditable business identity infrastructure.
- Deep workflows in risk, compliance, finance, and sales make switching expensive.
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Benefits
- Medical and Prescription Drug: Comprehensive coverage through a choice of a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan and Consumer Directed Health Plan (CDHP). The CDHP plan has a Health Savings Account (HSA) option. D&B contributes to the HSA each year.
- Dental: Insurance including preventive care, basic care, major care and orthodontia
- Vision: Coverage for routine eye exams and prescription lenses, frames and contact lenses
- Health Care Accounts: Set aside before-tax dollars to pay for eligible health care expenses. You can choose a Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA).
- Life Insurance: Company paid life insurance, as well as additional coverage including Basic, Supplemental, Spouse or Domestic Partner, and Child
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance: Benefit that provides a payment if you suffer an accident that is fatal or dismembering
- Business Travel Accident Insurance: Benefit that provides a payment if you are injured or die as a result of an accident while traveling on Company-approved business
- Short-Term Disability (STD): Company provided benefit that offers you income protection for absence due to nonwork-related injury or illness
- Long-Term Disability (LTD): Coverage that picks up when your STD ends. It provides income protection if you become totally disabled and are unable to work after 180 days of continuous disability.
- Critical Illness Insurance: Insurance that is intended to supplement your medical and disability coverage. It provides a lump-sum benefit in the event you (or a covered family member) are diagnosed with a covered condition, such as cancer, heart attack, and more
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance: Provides a lump-sum benefit to help you pay for costs in the event you (or a covered family member) are hospitalized.
- Accident Insurance: Provides a lump-sum benefit to help you (or a covered family member) pay for costs for a covered injury and related services