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Director, Global HR Business Partner
NielsenUnited States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Feb 2025
💰 $200,000/yr($100,000/yr – $200,000/yr)
About the role
At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.
Scope of this role
The Global HR Business Partner, provides senior level, strategic HR guidance to two key Audience Measurement US based EC Leaders and their direct reports - Akhil Parekh, Global Chief Solutions Officer and Pete Doe, Chief Data & Research Officer. The role also supports Michelle Gelman, Global Head of Nielsen One Content & Syndicated Products, who reports into Jared Grusd, CEO Gracenote & Nielsen Content.
Supporting these teams, the Global HR Business Partner is responsible for enabling the organization in identifying and closing talent and organizational gaps, and for aligning the overall people strategy to our business imperatives. The Global HR Business Partner, partners with local Enterprise HRBP teams, dedicated COEs, and other functions to ensure best in class people strategy creation and deployment.
Scope of this role
The Global HR Business Partner, provides senior level, strategic HR guidance to two key Audience Measurement US based EC Leaders and their direct reports - Akhil Parekh, Global Chief Solutions Officer and Pete Doe, Chief Data & Research Officer. The role also supports Michelle Gelman, Global Head of Nielsen One Content & Syndicated Products, who reports into Jared Grusd, CEO Gracenote & Nielsen Content.
Supporting these teams, the Global HR Business Partner is responsible for enabling the organization in identifying and closing talent and organizational gaps, and for aligning the overall people strategy to our business imperatives. The Global HR Business Partner, partners with local Enterprise HRBP teams, dedicated COEs, and other functions to ensure best in class people strategy creation and deployment.
Responsibilities
- Drive the strategy and delivery of organization effectiveness (planning, development, and design), change management (actively communicating), and talent programs
- Lead talent review discussions; provide strategic HR insight into business unit realignments, succession planning, talent assessment, talent development, and leadership pipelines
- Develop and execute on strategic workforce plan for business in partnership with COEs
- Advise the senior team on the design and implementation of organizational solutions against priority needs, and coach and counsel business unit executives on issues pertinent to leadership, organizational effectiveness and change management
- Support the business in making strategic and operational decisions, reflecting an understanding of broader cross functional implications and the imperative for sustained, profitable growth
- Serves as the domain expert for organization and talent; provides subject matter expert recommendations and solutions to improve productivity, retention and attraction of employees based on external and internal factors, best practices and innovative solutions
HR and Talent Management Strategy
- Ensure, through deep data analysis and research, that strategy is coherent and aligned to business needs
- Ensure integrated regional and global HR change management and communications approaches are being developed and implemented
- Focus on developing innovative talent strategies that address the diverse needs of our business and our People
- Monitor overall effectiveness of HR programs and services by monitoring key talent metrics to identify and analyze People related issues, root causes, and possible levers for solutions
- Ensure consistent application of programs across the various business units and promote standardization by creating practical and effective programs in partnership with other HR teams
Talent/Workforce Planning
- Overall responsibility for the Talent Planning process execution
- Conduct/support talent planning discussions and provide perspective on future key talent needs
- Facilitate the roll out of talent planning processes
- Summarize overall talent needs and action plans
- Monitor progress against action plans and provide updates to People/business leadership as appropriate, flagging risks, issues etc
Qualifications
- A minimum 8+ years of HR experience in client facing people team roles
- Experience supporting a product or technology function would be desirable.
- Broad exposure to all HR functions including organizational development, change management, recruiting, workforce planning, compensation benefits.
- Further education preferred in Human Resources Management, Organizational Psychology or related field.
- An HR leader with a proven track record of taking the initiative and delivering results.
- Creative thinker and problem solver Demonstrated ability to thrive in a rapidly growing, fast-changing, highly collaborative environment.
- Experience working in a matrix environment.
- Proven experience and ability in working across different cultures and time zones.
- Proven experience working at a strategic leve
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