Senior Manager, People Partner

Edelman’s People Team is seeking a dynamic ambassador, trusted business partner, and consummate team player to join our people team (human resources) as Senior Manager, People Partner supporting our US Brand Team based in New York. You’ll be joining a collaborative People team that is passionate about the work they do to support, grow, and retain the best talent in our industry. You will have the opportunity to lead talent strategies for key business units by creating strong partnerships with senior business leaders, talent acquisition, finance, and resource management.  If you have a background in managing talent across sectors and geographies and love driving programming to develop future talent, then this job is for you! This role will be based in our New York office in a hybrid model (combination of working in the office at least three days a week and from home).

Responsibilities and Expectations:

• SKILLS:
• Manage local and/or regional programs, initiatives, and projects for the US Brand Team (with focus on the teams in the central and western regions)
• Develop, roll out, and lead internal programs, best practices, and process improvements
• Ensure programs and processes align to business strategies
• Evaluate, inform, coach, and motivate employees, managers, and hiring managers
• Display and coach others to exhibit sound judgment regarding full scope of work
• Diplomatically navigate and leverage resources and stakeholders to provide mutually-beneficial solutions to problems, conflicts, and/or employee relations issues
• Support and assist in developing internal strategies and implementation plans
• Recruit, evaluate, coach, train and motivate employees and leaders
• Exhibit and teach others exceptional project, time, and people management skills
• Lead specialty function responsibilities and projects, such as interview processes, new hire onboarding, and/or diversity and inclusion initiatives 
• Serve as strategic partner to employees, managers, hiring managers, and/or candidates to help resolve issues, make informed decisions, navigate workplace dynamics, and drive career growth
• Positively impact culture that maps to the firm’s vision, mission, and values


• BEHAVIORS:
• Serves as a positive role model; supports and respects colleagues, clients, and partners; focuses on self-improvement and ensures work is based on strategic insights
• Effectively and consistently manages strengths and weaknesses of self and others; enables self and others to bring the best of their skills and talents to work; is consistently ambitious in setting and achieving goals
• Always takes all feedback as a constructive learning opportunity and acts upon it; enables others to thrive as part of agency life and adapts to others’ styles to do so; ensures excellence is repeated by rigorously identifying and socializing key learnings for all colleagues
• Pushes for creative ideas; is purposeful and enterprising in problem-solving; embraces diverse trends, skills, specialties, and viewpoints
• Delivers substantial change for clients and the communities in which we operate; ensures new insights from self and others fuel innovation in agency approach and client work; uses diversity of perspective to elevate client counsel, the agency, and own career
• Effectively implements change for clients and agency in a way that demonstrates powerful and unique thinking; uses thoughtful, strategic insights and knowledge to balance risk-taking for clients and the agency; holds others accountable for open-mindedness and embracing diverse viewpoints
• Ensures work and relationships are founded on open and honest communications; listens and asks the right questions during day-to-day work; upholds creative, ethical, and legal standards
• Ensures that client counsel and agency action is always purposeful and challenging; prioritizes the interests of the wider agency; holds subordinates, peers, and superiors accountable for demonstrating integrity and ethical behavior
• Demonstrates a strategic and thoughtful approach in challenging others to ask the right questions; prioritizes the interests of client service excellence ahead of individual advancement

Basic Qualifications:

• At least six years’ progressive experience in human resources or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/BA in a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
• HR management certification/PHR/SPHR preferred
• Experience in innovative HR management in a professional services environment
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail
• Ability to and experience overseeing multiple projects and prioritizing appropriately under pressure
• Ability to and experience in effectivel