Director, Human Resources Business Partner

ABM Industries

Chicago, IL

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$165,000–$175,000 Per Year
SKILLS
Acquisition Integration, Analysis Skills, Best Practices, Business Development, Business Growth, Business Skills, Business Strategy, Business Transformation, Change Management, Channel Strategies, Coaching, Commercial Real Estate, Continuous Improvement, Customer Acquisition, Human Resources, Human Resources Strategy, Incentive Programs, Leadership, Logistics, Multitasking, Organizational Development/Management, Process Improvement, Project/Program Management, Property Management, Startup, Strategic Planning, Succession Planning, Talent Management, Workforce Planning
LOCATION
Chicago, IL
POSTED
3 days ago

Overview

Compensation: $165,000 - $175,000 annual salary (US Dollars)
The pay listed is the salary range for this position. Any specific offer will vary based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data. You may be eligible to participate in a Company incentive or bonus program


Benefits: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package.  For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM Employee Benefits | Staff & Management

We are more than 100,000 team members strong... At ABM, every team member has the opportunity to make a difference every day while building a meaningful career in an inclusive, high-performing culture.

Position Summary:

The Director, Human Resources Business Partner serves as a trusted strategic advisor to senior operational leaders within one of ABM's largest commercial business segments. This role partners closely with executive leadership to shape and execute business strategy through organizational design, talent strategy, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning, change management, and culture initiatives.

The successful candidate brings significant experience supporting large-scale commercial real estate, integrated facilities services, or similarly complex operations-based organizations. They excel at partnering with geographically dispersed senior operational leaders, influencing without direct authority, and driving business outcomes through strategic talent management. This leader thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments and demonstrates resilience, adaptability, and sound judgment while navigating organizational transformation.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the VP, HR Business Partners and senior executives to develop and execute business, organization, talent, and culture strategies aligned to business priorities.
  • Serve as the primary strategic HR advisor to a diverse, geographically dispersed senior operations leadership team.
  • Coach executives and senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, organizational health, workforce planning, succession planning, and team effectiveness.
  • Lead organizational design initiatives that ensure the business has the right structure, capabilities, and talent to achieve strategic objectives.
  • Develop and execute strategic talent management initiatives, including succession planning, leadership assessment, high-potential development, talent reviews, and critical role planning.
  • Partner with Learning & Talent Development to strengthen leadership capability and accelerate organizational readiness.
  • Lead and support complex organizational change initiatives, including restructures, integrations, acquisitions, new client startups and business transformation efforts.
  • Guide leaders through ambiguity and organizational challenges while maintaining engagement, performance, and business continuity.
  • Leverage workforce analytics, engagement insights, and talent data to inform executive decision-making.
  • Partner across HR Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated talent solutions and ensure consistent execution of enterprise HR strategies.
  • Champion a high-performance, inclusive culture aligned with ABM leadership expectations.
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying and sharing best practices across the organization.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field.
  • Minimum of 10 years of progressive Human Resources experience, including experience as a strategic HR Business Partner within an HR COE/shared services model.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale commercial real estate, integrated facilities services, property management, hospitality, logistics, or similarly complex operations-based organizations.
  • Proven success partnering with geographically dispersed executive and senior operations leadership teams.
  • Strong strategic talent management experience, including organizational design, succession planning, leadership development, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness.
  • Demonstrated success leading organizations through significant change, transformation, restructuring, acquisitions, or rapid business growth.
  • Outstanding executive coaching, consultation, communication, and influencing skills.
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-pressure environments while managing multiple priorities.
  • Strong analytical, project management, and change management capabilities.
  • Demonstrated resilience, adaptability, and sound business judgment.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting workforces of several thousand employees across multiple geographic regions.
  • Track record of building trusted partnerships with senior operational leaders.
  • Experience leading large-scale organizational change.
  • Exceptional business acumen with the ability to translate business strategy into people strategy.
  • Passion for developing leaders and building high-performing organizations

About the Company

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ABM Industries

ABM offers a wide variety of service-related positions, including electricians, HVAC technicians, security officers, parking attendants, and cleaning jobs. ABM cares about your success.

We provide training so that you learn new job skills and take pride in the quality service you're giving to clients. You'll look like the trained professional you are when you wear a ABM uniform.For your health and safety, we use non-toxic cleaning products and up-to-date equipment.

Our internal training program focuses on teaching you the skills and processes that have helped many of our employees starting out as a janitor, cashier, security officer or building engineer grow into various management roles throughout the company. These jobs aren't your everyday at ABM; they are careers.

Thousands of commercial, industrial, government and retail clients look to ABM for consistent quality service that meets their specialized facility service needs including commercial cleaning and maintenance, facility engineering, energy efficiency, parking and security services.

With fiscal 2011 revenues of approximately $4.2 billion and nearly 100,000 employees, our 300+ offices across the U.S. and various international locales enable us to provide custom facility solutions to sites of all sizes — from neighborhood banks and schools to the largest and most complex facilities, such as corporate office parks and major airports.

With more than 300+ offices located throughout the country, we are always accepting applications for janitorial maintenance, landscaping gardeners, security guards, parking attendants, shuttle drivers and building engineers.

ABM IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER (MINORITY/FEMALE/VETERAN/DISABILITY)

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Business Services - Other
FOUNDED
1909
WEBSITE
http://www.abm.com/