Senior People Partner

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.   Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

As a Senior People Partner, you will be a strategic partner to our business leaders by deeply understanding our business goals and helping our leaders drive a people strategy to achieve those goals. You will bring your deep expertise in all functional areas of human resources, implementation of talent strategies, and leadership coaching, in order to build highly effective teams. In this role, you must have a growth mindset, be flexible, creative, and agile. You must be comfortable in a fast-paced and ever changing environment. This role is highly collaborative and influences others at all levels, requiring advanced communication skills and the ability to build high-trust relationships.  

How You’ll Do It

• Organizational Management - align the people strategy with the business strategy
  • Partner with business leaders to understand their objectives and provide guidance on people-related matters, including talent acquisition, performance management, compensation, and organizational development.
• Change Management - Work with leaders to manage and lead through all changes to the business unit, for example: Changes in org design, leadership, reporting structures, and People & Talent related programs and initiatives
• Consultation - Act as a reliable consultant to leaders helping to understand current circumstances and anticipating future ones
  • Analyze trends and metrics in partnership with the HR group to develop solutions, programs, and policies. 
  • Advise managers on employee relations issues, including performance management, employee development, and conflict resolution.
• Talent Development - Partner with leaders to build and maintain outcomes-oriented, high performing teams, where success is recognized and valued
  • Partner with the Learning and Development team to create and implement training programs that enhance employee skills and knowledge.
  • Oversee the performance management process and ensure that it is effective in driving employee engagement and performance.
  • Use data, tools, and resources available to empower leaders in performance management, team culture, and engagement.
• Service, Compliance & Risk Mitigation - Identify, manage and mitigate risk to Pie through knowledge of applicable and relevant laws, rules, and regulations
  • Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. 
  • Manage and resolve common-to-complex employee relations issues. 

The Right Stuff

• 10+ years of HR experience, related business industry experience, or leading teams with HR related functions, or a combination of related experience/education. 
• 6+ years of experience working in a HR Business Partner/People Partner role or a combination of related experience/education required.
• Prior experience supporting Business Development, Sales, Marketing, and/or Operations teams.
• Proficient Workday skills required. Preferred experience with Greenhouse, Google Suite and Slack. 
• Strong collaboration skills: advanced interpersonal awareness with the ability to adapt approach and style based on the audience. Highly proficient at evaluating and prioritizing the needs of multiple stakeholders. Develops and sustains collaborative working relationships.
• Advanced critical thinking skills: Competent analytical and critical thinking skills. Utilizes data as an important input to make sound decisions.  Able to critically assess situations in business groups, articulate the problem(s), apply developed integrative thinking, to deliver creative, effective and efficient solutions.
• Excellent communication skills: Adapts communication style based on audience/stakeholder. Clear, concise, and consistent verbal and written communicator. Strong ability to navigate and deliver difficult conversations with ease. Effective communication skills enabling influence and persuasion of others. 
• Strategic Minded: Able to thread together pieces of information to form a strong understanding of business groups’ priorities, opportunities, and strength