The Role:

The Senior Human Resources Business Partner (“Sr. HRBP”) serves as an influential people partner, advising the Enterprise, Mobility and Dealer Sales client groups.  The Sr. HRBP plays a key role in implementing the HR strategy and programs in support of short-term and long-term business goals with the overall goal of attracting, retaining, and developing the best talent.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead people strategy opportunities and choices to compete and succeed. Contribute to the execution of the business plan through the creation and implementation of People Strategies that attract, develop and retain Team Members. Collaborate with and influence senior leaders to prioritize strategic people priorities and solutions that accelerate the achievement of business priorities through talent management, diversity and inclusion, rewards and recognition, and organizational effectiveness.

• Design and create the organization that will deliver business success. Proactively challenge the established organization structure of the client unit to drive superior performance. Using expertise as the HR architect, enable the business to be successful by creating a fit for the future organization that delivers organizational effectiveness through structure, process, value stream, reward and recognition and management mechanisms.

• Create the culture that enables the business to be successful. Develop and drive the employee engagement strategy to help make Cox Automotive the very best place to be. Be the cultural enabler for your business. Establish and maintain relationships through an environment that fosters communication and collaboration. Promote and focus a culture and environment that is productive, open and empowering and coach others to behave in line with our management and leadership principles.

• Resource the organization to enable current and future success. Develop and execute resourcing and talent strategy for market/business/function that ensures we have the right people in the right place at the right time. Build capability to ensure long term success.

• Interpret data insightfully and generate original insights for strategic talent priorities. Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to solve problems and drive continuous improvement of talent priorities. Be an insights advocate that reviews external data and trends and provides relevant insight back into the business. Creating winning solutions to keep the business ahead of the competition.

• Deliver better, quicker results through the expertise, resources and connections of your network. Work collaboratively with People Strategies Centers of Excellence to optimize the effectiveness of the business. Be the influencer for the rest of People Strategies, ensuring market/business/function receives the best support to support the delivery of the business and people strategies.

• Anticipate and respond to changing business needs. Influence lasting change in assigned businesses by serving as a change advocate on companywide strategies and initiatives. 

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 4+ years of progressive experience in HR disciplines with a strategic focus.  The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 8 years’ experience in a related field 

• Experience working with, coaching and influencing leaders

• Proven ability to influence and partner with leadership and individual contributor levels of the organization to achieve results

• Strong HR and business acumen, including problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and self-initiative

• Ability to diagnose a problem and identify and drive appropriate solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience managing HR professional and/or people leaders

• Graduate degree in business, HR or related field

• HR certification such as PHR, SPHR or GPHR

• Demonstrated ability to drive human resource strategies and programs in a complex, fast growing, and dynamic environment

• Demonstrated ability to work in a geographically disbursed and matrix organization