HR Business Partner

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Job Description

Your Role:
The HR Business Partner acts as the strategic partner and trusted advisor for a designated area(s) of the business by providing proactive and effective HR strategies that drive better people and business results; serves as relationship manager between core HR functions and the business leaders; and ensures flawless execution of all facets of HR support, services, and programs – leading efforts and working with HR Generalists and Coordinators on others.

You Will Be Responsible For:

Advisement and Partnering:

• Acts as a trusted advisor to business leaders by providing expert HR guidance and support.
• Builds strong, influential relationships with leaders to understand their business needs and challenges.
• Provides strategic HR insights and solutions that align with business objectives and drive organizational success.
• Partners with leaders to develop and implement HR strategies that enhance employee engagement, performance, and retention.
• Serves as a key consultant on HR-related matters, offering proactive advice and recommendations.
• Collaborates with leaders to identify and address talent and organizational development needs.
• Ensures HR initiatives and programs are effectively communicated and implemented across the business.

Human Capital Thought Leadership:

• Provides human capital advice to managers and key leaders.
• Understands the business models, people, and strategies for the assigned business well enough to identify trends.
• Conducts root cause analysis of people-related issues and leverages/interprets relevant management information to assist managers with both making sound decisions and developing and implementing appropriate people-related solutions.
• Works closely with Finance partners to provide financial analysis to support fact-based people decisions.
• Actively participates in and may lead full impact analysis for organizational restructuring and executes effective plans to support restructuring needs.

Diversity and Inclusion:

• Partners with business leaders to create diversity and inclusion programs that are relevant to business strategies, aligned with the corporate imperative, and that meaningfully enhance the firm’s culture and diversity of thought.

Leadership Effectiveness:

• Develops a deep knowledge of the talent within the assigned business unit, utilizing feedback, performance management, and talent development information to provide advice to managers on motivating, developing, and performance managing their teams.
• Advocates for and enables a culture of feedback.
• Partners with and influences managers to identify talent/skills gaps on their teams and designs solutions to fill the gaps.
• Partners with Learning and Development team to design targeted/accelerated development plans with successful outcomes for top performers, leading to growth opportunities.

Execution and Program Management:

• Identifies and translates business needs into pragmatic HR solutions.
• Effectively executes HR-related and/or cyclical activities such as talent management, workforce planning, performance management, and the compensation cycle process (ensuring decisions are performance and market led).
• Fully understands and interprets HR policy and best practices to give advice.
• Influences managers and employees on a full range of complex employee and organization-related issues including employee relations situations, conflict resolution, policy interpretation, redundancies, etc.
• Stays current with changing employment legislation through active self-learning. Demonstrated ability to successfully manage and mitigate HR risks of complex issues such as claims of harassment or discrimination.

The Experience You Bring:

• 8+ years of progressive HR experience partnering and collaborating with business leaders in a global environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required, PHR preferred.
• Demonstrable experience in partnering with managers on all people and organization-related situations by proactively identifying issues, asking good questions, recommending solutions as well as providing advice.
• Ability to advise and influence all levels of managers on sophisticated employee-related issues.
• Prior experience leading and implementing change management plans that support critical initiatives.
• Must be experienced working in a highly collaborative matrix organization, preferably a global matrix organization.
• Ability to successfully support global clients and navigate conflicting priorities of all constituencies.
• Proven ability to prioritize and accomplish a wide variety of assignments.
• Prior experience conducting root cause analysis on business issues and recommending practical and effective HR solutions.
• Experience analyzing HR and business data and creating/presenting management information to aid leaders in making good business decisions.
• Expert technical HR knowledge across the broad spectrum of the HR functions such as compensation, benefits, organizational development, people development, talent acquisition, employee relations, etc.
• Deep understanding of employment legislation and HR best practices.
• Highly proficient with HR systems and strong PC skills in PeopleSoft and Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Full Time / Part Time

Worker Type

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office. 

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.