Head of Team Resources

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Brown & Brown is seeking a Head of Team Resources for our team in Tampa, Florida.
 

Orchid Underwriters Agency (Orchid), a member of the Brown & Brown National Programs division. The preferred location for this role is within commuting distance to our Tampa office. Moderate travel to our Vero Beach office will also be required.

The Head of Team Resources will report to the Chief Executive Officer/Profit Center Leader and will be responsible for directing all the people functions of the organization in conjunction with the parent company’s policies and best practices, ensuring legal compliance and implementation of the organization’s mission and talent strategy.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Collaborates with senior leadership to understand the organization’s goals and strategy related to staffing, recruiting, and retention.
• Plans, leads, develops, coordinates, and implements processes, training, initiatives, and surveys to support the organization’s human resource compliance and strategy needs.
• Identifies staffing and recruiting needs; develops and executes best practices for hiring and talent management.
• Serves as a transformational and change champion for the organization; effectively communicating and understanding the change, acting as a trusted advisor and ensuring change is for the greater good; delivering substantial impact for increase teammate satisfaction and productivity.
• Conducts research and analysis of organizational trends including review of reports and metrics from the organization’s human resource information system (HRIS) or talent management system.
• Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law; applies this knowledge to communicate changes in policy, practice, and resources to upper management.
• Establishes credibility throughout the profit center to be an effective listener and problem solver of people issues.
• Provides leadership, guidance and knowledge to others within the HR discipline.
• Manages other areas such as quarterly engagement surveys and results, teammate communication, teammate safety and health, and engagement team.
• Develops and implements departmental budget.
• Participates in professional development and networking conferences and events.
• Manages all teammates of the Team Resources department and is responsible for the performance management and hiring of the teammates within that department.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Master’s or other advanced degree preferred.
• Certification: SHRM-CP or PHR required; SHRM-SCP or SPHR preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
• Ability to adapt to the needs of the organization and teammates.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
• Thorough knowledge of employment-related laws and regulations.
• Experience working across multiple digital platforms to organize and manage parallel workstreams (e.g., MS Office, Teams, SharePoint, Workday, etc.)
• Hands on experience with Workday HCM.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
• Competitive pay based on experience
• Discretionary Time Off (DTO)
• Generous benefits package: health, dental, vision, 401(k), etc.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Who We Are:

Orchid, a member of the Brown & Brown, Inc. National Programs division, is a premier leader in program underwriting services and distribution in personal and commercial catastrophe property insurance. For more than two decades we have been the market of choice for brokers and capacity providers alike. Established in 1998, Orchid has recognized a long-term and sustained growth trajectory, and currently places approximately $300 million of annual premium. Headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida with additional offices in Tampa, Orchid designs, markets, underwrites and administers insurance policies on behalf of third-party carriers through an independent network of more than 7,100 experienced agents and brokers.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in the diversity of our team and seek diversity in our applicants.