Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) to join the HR team of a growing international organization in Virginia Beach, VA.
This position is ideal for a senior-minded HR professional who enjoys operating as a strategic advisor to business leaders while remaining comfortable with hands-on HR responsibilities. The HRBP will partner closely with leadership on workforce strategy, employee relations, organizational effectiveness, engagement, talent initiatives, and day-to-day HR matters.
The successful candidate will bring strong HR generalist experience, sound employee-relations judgment, executive presence, and the ability to translate business priorities into practical people strategies.
Key Responsibilities
Business & People Strategy
- Serve as a trusted HR advisor to senior leaders and business stakeholders.
- Translate business priorities into workforce, talent, engagement, and employee-experience strategies.
- Advise leadership on organizational design, leadership effectiveness, workforce challenges, culture, and change initiatives.
- Support workforce planning, budgeting, merit planning, talent reviews, and succession planning.
- Identify workforce risks and opportunities involving capacity, capability, engagement, performance, and retention.
- Coach leaders and reinforce accountability for people, culture, and performance outcomes.
Employee Relations & HR Partnership
- Provide guidance on complex employee-relations and performance-management matters.
- Conduct or support investigations and recommend fair, consistent, and compliant solutions.
- Coach managers through difficult employee situations and organizational challenges.
- Identify potential employee, leadership, retention, and compliance risks.
- Maintain a high level of confidentiality, objectivity, ethics, and professional judgment.
Employee Experience & Engagement
- Support the employee lifecycle from onboarding through development, engagement, and retention.
- Analyze employee feedback and engagement information to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Develop and implement targeted engagement initiatives and action plans.
- Support employee surveys, pulse checks, focus groups, communications, and culture initiatives.
- Coach leaders on practices that strengthen trust, inclusion, engagement, and performance.
Talent & Organizational Effectiveness
- Partner with leaders on hiring strategies, workforce planning, organizational capability, and role design.
- Contribute to succession planning and leadership-development discussions.
- Partner with internal HR stakeholders on compensation, benefits, talent acquisition, and employee development.
- Help create effective onboarding and early-tenure experiences that improve productivity and retention.
- Lead or contribute to organizational change and continuous-improvement initiatives.
HR Operations & People Analytics
- Support effective HR operations and maintain accurate employee information within HR systems.
- Analyze workforce metrics related to headcount, hiring, attrition, engagement, costs, and other HR KPIs.
- Prepare reports and insights that support leadership decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to improve, automate, or streamline HR processes.
- Support employee inquiries, vendor coordination, annual HR cycles, and other operational requirements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 5+ years of progressive Human Resources experience.
- Previous HR Business Partner experience or strong senior-level HR generalist experience.
- Demonstrated experience partnering directly with senior leaders.
- Strong employee-relations and performance-management experience.
- Proven ability to lead HR initiatives, projects, or organizational change.
- Experience managing multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.
- Ability to collect, analyze, synthesize, and communicate HR/workforce data.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate can operate comfortably at both the strategic and tactical levels. You can advise an executive on a complex workforce issue and then personally execute the HR work necessary to move the solution forward.
You should be able to demonstrate specific examples of:
- Building credibility and trusted relationships with senior leadership.
- Leading HR initiatives and organizational change.
- Managing challenging employee-relations situations.
- Influencing leaders and constructively challenging decisions when appropriate.
- Improving employee engagement, retention, processes, or organizational effectiveness.
- Using workforce data and HR metrics to support business decisions.
- Balancing strategic HR priorities with hands-on operational responsibilities.
Strong candidates will be proactive, collaborative, process-oriented, comfortable with constructive conflict, and able to communicate effectively with employees and executives alike.
Work Environment & Benefits
This position offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative, team-oriented environment with exposure to an international organization and cross-functional HR initiatives.
The benefits package includes:
- Competitive base compensation.
- Discretionary annual bonus opportunity.
- Strong 401(k) matching program.
- Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays.
- Competitive health-insurance benefits.
- Professional and leadership-development opportunities.
- Employee wellness and engagement programs.
- One remote workday per week.
Candidates must currently be within commuting distance of Virginia Beach, VA and comfortable working onsite approximately four days per week.