HR Business Partner Leader

As a critical member of the HR team, the HR Business Partner Leader(HRBP) is a strategic HR leader responsible for providing high-impact partnership to senior leaders across our Auto Finance line of business.  This role is accountable for aligning people strategies with business goals, shaping organizational design, and fostering a culture of trust, driving proactive talent identification, succession planning, and workforce strategies that enable growth, innovation, and resilience.

Location: This position is hybrid 2-3 days per week in our West Valley City, UT office.

Responsibilities:

Collaborative Advisor

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior leaders, aligning HR strategies with business priorities and performance goals.

• Lead organizational design initiatives to ensure structures, roles, and capabilities support strategic objectives and future needs.

• Partner with business unit to integrate sustained solutions to specific line of business or business unit challenges

• Analyze performance and execution challenges with leaders

• Collaborate with and enable managers to ensure adequate support to deliver on business strategy

• Actively participate in business reviews, leadership meetings, and strategy sessions to provide talent and culture insights.

• Translate business priorities into actionable talent strategies through close partnership with Recruiting, Organizational Development and Learning, and Compensation

• Deliver data-driven findings to ensure proactive review and informed decision-making

• Ensure focus on initiatives with highest ROI

Talent Development

• Lead line of business and business unit succession planning and leadership pipeline development in partnership with senior executives

• Facilitate or coordinate targeted training or development experiences that align with business needs and support effective leadership, high performing teams and organizational agility

• Integrate enterprise-wide strategies for talent and engagement activities

• Understand the talent needs of the business and anticipate and identify talent issues before they impact the business

• Collaborate with managers to ensure talent management programs are aligned with business objectives

• Leverage established talent strategy in the business unit to meet talent gaps

• Partner with managers to develop and implement employee engagement strategies that support organizational goals and objectives

Culture and Organizational Values Advocate

• Serve as an advisor to organizational change by guiding senior leaders to anticipate impacts, define success criteria, and build alignment for change or transformation initiatives.

• Guide leaders and teams through periods of transformation and change with empathy, structure, and agility.

• Serve as a balanced advocate for leaders and team members

• Foster a culture of inclusion based upon key leadership principle and attributes through collaborative partnerships between team members and managers.

• Collaborate with Team Member Relations, Legal and Compliance teams to uphold standards and mitigate organizational risk.

• Think broadly, be comfortable challenging convention, exerting influence to help managers drive innovation and improvements

• Exercise effective judgment on when to be flexible or firm in response to changing needs

• Coach and exert influence in order to get leaders to think differently to achieve desired results

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field. Master’s degree or MBA preferred.

• 8 + years human resources business partner/generalist or consultant experience in a fast-paced environment, with at least 5 years in a senior HRBP or HR leadership role supporting senior or executive leaders.

• Extensive expertise in organizational design, strategic workforce planning, and succession management.

• Ability to anticipate challenges, diagnose issues, recommend actions, and drive solutions that significantly contribute to the business strategy

• Possesses a mix of intellectual curiosity, creative thinking and pragmatism

• Proven ability to analyze and present data to drive understanding and actionable strategies

• Current, in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to human resources including federal and state employment laws

• Experience consulting in a hybrid and/or decentralized environment preferred