Director, People Business Partner - People Team

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Director, People Business Partner (HRBP) to join our Global People for People team (HR4HR) and support the Visa People Team through our exciting transformation journey. This is a great opportunity to join our efforts to build a world-class people function during a time of rapid business growth.

The ideal candidate excels in a fast-paced, continuously evolving environment, and is skilled at both strategy setting and strong execution to achieve business and functional results. They are comfortable navigating and addressing people-related challenges in the dynamic payments space. They will empower the HR team to drive transformational initiatives that enable the organization to innovate and grow. This individual will act as a trusted advisor, partnering closely with their assigned leaders to drive the talent agenda for the People Team. They will bring functional expertise, a commercially focused and transformational mindset, and serve as the expert on people and organizational matters. As a member of the P4P team, the PBP (HRBP) will partner closely with internal counterparts and Centers of Excellence to plan and deliver (HR) programs and services to our function.

This includes implementing annual people programs such as performance reviews, promotions, succession planning, and action plans resulting from employee surveys. You will work to enhance organizational design and structure, provide change leadership, and management coaching. Leading and participating in cross-group and company-wide projects, you will develop internal processes, policies, and recognition and retention programs. Throughout the planning and execution phases, you will partner with your clients to ensure alignment with our People Team and company strategy.

This role reports to the Senior Director, Global People Business Partner, People for People (P4P) and is a key member of the P4P Team. 

Essential Functions

• Serve as a strategic People Business Partner to leadership focused on a broad-based and transformational talent agenda designed to recruit, develop, and retain the very best diverse and innovative talent in the business for global and regional teams.
• Establish strong relationships with leaders and act as a catalyst in delivering People solutions that support the specific needs of each area/department as well as overall business/functional objectives.
• Provide People Team expertise to client groups in all aspects, including but not limited to performance management and team effectiveness, talent management/organizational development, rewards and recognition, growth and development and workforce planning with the support of the Centers of Excellence.
• Offer proactive guidance and support for organizational planning and development initiatives, aligning the People agenda with key business strategies with a focus on change management
• Partner with Clients to build high performing teams, support leaders with coaching on employee matters, organizational design, people related strategy and execution.
• Help drive a best-in-class Talent agenda, including D&I, to promote employee engagement and enable a high-performing workforce that advances the company’s strategic growth.
• Apply a data driven approach to assess organizational metrics and deliver actionable insights to leaders
• Promote a culture of innovation, in an environment that demands high levels of scalability, security and uncompromising reliability
• Closely partner with COEs and other PBPs to deliver superior results to the function
• Possess executive presence and strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively partner with all levels of leadership
• Lead design and project manage key People Team initiatives that support the grow of our function (Talent, I&D, Engagement)

No relocation provided for this role.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on busin