Senior HR Business Partner

About Accolade
Accolade (Nasdaq: ACCD) provides millions of people and their families with an exceptional healthcare experience that is personal, data driven and value based to help every person live their healthiest life. Accolade solutions combine virtual primary care, mental health support and expert medical opinion services with intelligent technology and best-in-class care navigation. Accolade’s Personalized Healthcare approach puts humanity back in healthcare by building relationships that connect people and their families to the right care at the right time to improve outcomes, lower costs and deliver consumer satisfaction. Accolade consistently receives consumer satisfaction ratings over 90%. For more information, visit accolade.com.

This is a hybrid role working on-site three days per week from our Seattle location.

The salary for this position will be set based on the level of experience, skills, and qualifications the candidate brings to the role, in line with our commitment to equity and market competitiveness. The median salary for this role is $140,000 annually.

The Senior Human Resources Business Partner is responsible for designing, interpreting and executing comprehensive people strategies, policies, guidelines and programs for assigned business unit.  This individual will have the expertise to support HR specialty programs such as employee rewards, compensation, benefits, performance management, employee relations and other technical needs. The Sr. Business Partner has the ability to see the big picture, people strategy needs, as well as anticipate and execute more tactical organization and people needs to cultivate a truly amazing employee experience.

A day in the life…

• Serve as a trusted advisor and partner to our business and functional organizations

• The Senior HRBP shall work and partner with sales, marketing and customer support teams to develop, implement and drive results increasing organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

• Support our efforts to align our people strategy to our business priorities and deliver solutions; Partner with leaders to establish plans and deliver solutions to achieve strategic business initiatives and deliver results. This includes developing a people strategy that is focused on employee obsession, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent and overall business performance

• Review gaps in leadership capability across departments within the business and develop action plans accordingly.

• Analyze human resources program activity, conduct performance analyses of the programs, prepare reports and proposals from findings, and present them to senior management for consideration

• Maintains clear and detailed knowledge of the industry trends, best practices, and labor legislation

• Supporting the retention of valuable employees by enhancing efficient people management practices within the business leading to employee satisfaction

• Leads with a strong analytical focus, conducting research, and continuously developing and implementing HR procedures and policies.

• Ensure the delivery of innovative organizational development solutions and cutting-edge HR services across talent management, career development, performance management, leadership development, culture and conflict resolution

• Provide day-to-day performance management guidance which includes coaching, counseling, and disciplinary actions; manage and resolve employee relations issues; conduct effective, thorough and objective investigations

• Serve as a primary point of contact for teams within the assigned organization on all People & Culture related matters

• Collaborate with the Compensation Manager to provide compensation support including salary planning, approval of salary actions, promotions and job leveling/re-leveling

• Analyze trends and metrics in partnership with the broader People & Culture team to develop solutions, programs and policies; champion these solutions within assigned organization

• Partner with Senior & Executive Leadership to assess, create and implement innovative solutions for a variety of employee engagement initiatives

• Partner effectively with other cross-functional teams such as Diversity, L&D, Talent Management, Wellbeing and Compensation on communications and best practices

• Support or lead special and cross functional projects as needed

What we are looking for…

• Bachelor's degree in huma