Strategic HR Business Partner

Medica's Strategic HR Business Partner serves as a trusted advisor to business leadership regarding people, organizational, cultural, and capability implications of business strategy. In addition, our Strategic HR Business Partner will effectively influence and lead organizational change initiatives.

This role is responsible for aligning 'people' strategies to business and growth strategies, partnering with business leaders and HR Centers of Excellence. The incumbent will be able to identify capability gaps in current workforce and set strategy to help address business needs.

Key Accountabilities:

• Working with senior leaders to develop and implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned with overall business strategy
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior management on talent and organizational matters
• Develop and leverage business knowledge to provide consultation and guidance to executives and directors concerning business, talent, and operational decisions
• Coach and challenge leaders to develop and enhance their personal leadership style and performance to improve business results
• Partner and collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) to ensure business strategies are supported by the appropriate HR programs, practices, and services needed to provide competitive advantage
• Facilitates annual talent management, performance management and compensation activities in partnership with senior leaders and in partnership with HR COEs
• Lead organizational change initiatives and provide support and guidance on workforce planning and other organizational design activities
• Conduct organizational assessments and recommend solutions to enhance effectiveness and employee engagement
• Diagnose, design, implement, and assess change management strategies and plans in support of overall organizational development initiatives
• Identify people side risks and anticipated points of resistance
• Conduct readiness assessments, evaluate results, and present findings to stakeholders
• Provide significant input in the development of communication plans, stakeholder assessments, and training plans; administer measurements systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of changes

As a change leader, this role will have the opportunity to create and implement effective strategies to ensure smooth transitions to new processes, models and structures and partner with our HR teams as needed. Our Strategic HR Business Partners also proactively assesses data, identify trends, operational gaps, and areas of opportunity, and provide actionable insight to business leaders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 8+ years of progressive experience in Human Resources (HR) including a minimum of 6 years working as an HR Business Partner
• Demonstrated leadership experience with an ability to lead through influence; management experience strongly preferred
• Background in organization design and change management required
• Experience working effectively in a fast paced, accountable, growth oriented business environment
• Experience in successfully designing and implementing 'people' strategies to ensure that the organization, capabilities and culture ALL assist in driving business results
• Proven success influencing and driving results by matching people expertise, strategic input and professional insight
• Track record of strengthening senior leadership teams by providing coaching and counsel to senior executives to further develop their leadership skills

Skills and Abilities:

• Effectively partners with other members of the HR team to develop and implement new and improved HR programs and processes
• Ability to identify organizational development opportunities with business leaders
• Ability to develop and execute appropriate processes while leveraging internal HR resources
• Highly collaborative and facilitative approach
• Ability to apply business judgment to data with a strong analytical ability
• Proactive attitude, quickly identifies and acts on opportunities
• Ability to provide consulting expertise to assigned business unit(s) on HR issues including but not limited to organizational design and effectiveness, workforce planning, retention strategies, culture, leadership development, talent management, and reward and recognition strategies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong consultative, influencing and interpersonal skills
• Expert business knowledge with comprehensive understanding of functional areas and organization
• Advanced leadership skills with ability to resolve critical issues and contribute to organizational development

This position is an Office role, which requires an employee to work from the designated office, Minnetonka, on average, 2+ times per week.

The full salary range for this position is $108,400 - $185,900. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and/or licensure, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data. In addition to compensation, Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Medica's compensation and benefits are subject to change at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Medica's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) includes unifying our workforce through learning and development, recruitment and retention. We consistently communicate the importance of DEI, celebrate achievements, and seek out community partnerships and diverse suppliers that are representative of everyone in our community. We are developing sustainable programs and investing time, talent and resources to ensure that we are living our values. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, where all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.