Senior HR Director - Line HR

Our story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values:

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com. 

The Human Resources Business Partner is the lead HR consultant supporting the Product and Technology business leaders and their respective senior leadership teams, and as a trusted advisor, be able to articulate the full spectrum of Alight's HR portfolio and successfully implement HR strategic initiatives to support the business and will partner with the Product and Technology business which is going through an exciting period of transformation in order to accelerate our organizational growth. This role will play a critical role in enabling this transformation.

As part of the Product and Technology HR team, the HRBP will be integral to the development and delivery of an integrated, and solution focused, people plan to support the overall business goals and aggressive Technology roadmap.

Focus in this role will vary but likely activity will include conceiving, shaping and driving the delivery of the people strategy, change and operations agendas to help develop the right culture, operating model, leadership strength, size, shape, capacity and technical capability.

Key Responsibilities

• People Strategy: Support the leadership team to provide strategic HR direction to their teams.
• Operating Model: Working with Senior leaders or their teams on the simplification of the operating model to transform the people related cost base and create an organization that is agile, fast- paced and able to respond.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Work with leaders to create a fully diverse, engaged and unified organization, leveraging all types of cultural difference, emphasizing the importance of the Employee Experience and championing Alight’s values
• Next Generation Skills and Location Strategy: ensure units have the right skills in the right place, at the right time by supporting the development of a fully integrated strategic workforce plan that suits agile ways of working and future needs.
• Resourcing & Reward decisions, policies and processes: Provide business insight to Centres of Expertise, HR Services and the business to drive continuous improvement in Alight’s HR strategy, policy, services and processes into the line of business. Support the business with a resourcing mix that is flexible and a reward model to suit growth and highly competitive industry.
• HR Effectiveness: Work with the broader HR team, its ways of working and skills to deliver the people plan and strategy. Focus on development of self and the broader team, championing a culture of self-directed learning & development. Leading on upskilling pathways to support internal career opportunities and talent development Team. Closely collaborate with Centers of Expertise (COEs), including Integrated Talent Development, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition and HR Operations to provide inputs while also collaborating with other HRBPs to look for synergies and cross-functional alignment and support.
• High performing Teams: Support the business to develop strategic imperatives including a pro-active Talent agenda in order to ensure retention of key employees, developing leadership succession plans, raising people leader capability, performance and overall healthy churn.
• Critical HR Execution and Implementation: Develops broad understanding of all Alight HR Programs and is responsible for execution of all major HR initiatives wi