Lead Human Resources Business Partner

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HR - General

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Transamerica is seeking a Lead Human Resources Business Partner. This position is aligned to Human Resources in the People and Places corporate function with client partnership alignment for the Individual Solutions division. This impactful position provides human capital management consulting to leaders and employees of the Strategic Planning Office, Operations, and Life Product/Pricing and Underwriting functions across various remote and on-site locations. In addition to partnering with members of the full Human Resources Business Partner team, this position will collaborate with Human Resource (HR) Centers of Excellence to deliver value-added services in alignment with organizational objectives.

Job Description

Responsibilities 

• Develop and utilize a strong understanding of business strategy and operational objectives, coupled with broad HR knowledge and sound judgment, to provide solution based, business-oriented HR plans in a dynamic and transforming business environment. 
• As a member of the HR team utilize proactive communication, collaboration and leverage the team’s knowledge and experience to gain optimal results.  All of this is balanced with a focus on individual accountability and ownership to achieve results. 
• Lead HR discussions during manager and business team meetings to align key HR and business strategies. 
• Look holistically at issues that impact the organization; implement HR solutions based on root cause analysis. 
• Partner with business leaders to understand talent and capability needs and create workforce plans. 
• Work with leaders to identify appropriate organizational changes, in alignment with business goals. 
• Guide and implement organizational design changes to support business transformation.   
• Analyze and synthesize HR data to enable data driven decision making. 
• Drive initiatives regarding culture, organizational change, engagement, and organizational effectiveness. 
• Partner with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention. 
• Lead or participate in cross-functional/cross-HR projects and programs for enterprise-wide or site-specific needs. 
• Identify opportunities to align programs and processes at an enterprise level and recommend solutions for improvement. 
• Execute on compensation philosophies; administer, engage, and advise management on practices for Total Rewards compensation programs; execute pay/bonus programs and manage exceptions. 
• Advise in the selection and placement of internal