Director - East Region Hr Business Partner

Overview

When you join Hines, you will work alongside innovative leaders who set the standards responsible for our reputation as an industry leader today, and you'll be a part of shaping our future in the years to come.

Responsibilities

As the Director, HR Business Partner with Hines, you will partner and support the leaders of the East Region organization as well as the East Region local employee group(s). The HRBP will act as the primary point of entry to HR, liaising often with other HR groups as needed. You will work with business leaders to drive the end-to-end HR and talent agenda in support of growing and scaling the business and will be a champion of Hines' culture and values. You will be a true Business Partner to the East Region leadership team, helping to determine the most impactful HR-related initiatives to drive the business forward as well as monitoring the effect of business decisions on talent and advising appropriately. The Director will report to the SVP of Finance and Internal Strategy with a dotted line reporting relationship to Senior HR Leadership. The role is based in New York City, NY. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

 

Organization Partner: Partner and collaborate with the business on how to evolve (org structure, role design, team norms) to achieve strategic goals

• Partner with HR and East Region leadership to adjust HR strategies to respond to changing business needs; asses the HR implications of strategic options
• Identify and monitor critical HR metrics for business/ analyze trends and predict future dynamics
• Support the process of organization design and role creation/changes, liaise with Employee Relations for approval and documentation for making role or talent changes
• Manage the creation and updating of job descriptions; work with the Compensation team to set compensation and ensure band consistency 
• Work with teams to enhance their effectiveness, facilitating team-level interventions when needed

Talent Strategist: Ensure the East Region has top talent in the most critical roles; Coach employees to grow and expand their personal impact

• Determine the most critical value-creating roles; Coach employees to grow and expand their personal impact
• Help the business create plans to develop the next generation of leaders; execute talent reviews
• Identify talent issues before they impact the business
• Play an active part in interview assessments and hiring decisions for key roles to ensure quality talent coming into the organization
• Deliver appropriate coaching and development feedback to managers and employees
• Represent the East Region's talent mobility and internal recruitment interests within the broader firm

Connector and Executor: Execute on HR projects and processes, connecting employees/leaders to appropriate experts within the firm 

• Ensure managers successfully onboard new employees; liaise with Talent Acquisition, HRIS/payroll and Talent Development to ensure technical and training elements of onboarding are complete. Personally lean in to support onboarding for senior, critical, and/or brand new roles.
• Serves as first point of contact for employee issues, involving Employee Relations at earliest point when needed 
• Support rollout of HR programs to local constituents
• Serve as primary HR point of contact for the business on emergency preparedness and executing on the planLiaise between the business, HR, and other parts of the organization (e.g., Communications, Legal)

Risk manager: Help the business manage and mitigate risks; Ensure managers understand the intent of policies and model the principles 

• Ensure business understands the intent and adheres to HR policies and procedures
• Manage conflict resolution between employees and managers
• Analyze exit interview feedback to predict and mitigate future issues

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements include: 

 

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field from an accredited institution
• Eight or more years of relevant Human Resources experience, primarily as a strategic HR Business Partner and/or Generalist

• Prior experience with a distributed workforce and exposure to best-in-class HR, from other organizations of similar size and stage of transformation

• Strategic thinker with experience in execution of complex, multi-functional projects and programs

• Strong business acumen and commercial focus, capable of connecting business goals to people management practices in order to drive the most impactful people-related investments

• Ability to influence at all levels through clear, informed and logical business justification and discussion

• Proven analytical, process-oriented, visionary HR professional with expertise across the full spectrum of HR and the humility and ability to regularly pivot from strategic to operational

• Effective people management and people development skills

• Operate personal computer and other office equipment
• Ability to lift up to 25lbs
• Compensation: $185,000 - $225,000

Closing

Hines is a global real estate investment, development and property manager. The firm was founded by Gerald D. Hines in 1957 and now operates in 28 countries. We manage a $92.3B portfolio of high-performing assets across residential, logistics, retail, office and mixed-use strategies. Our local teams serve 634 properties totaling over 225 million square feet globally. We are committed to a net zero carbon target by 2040 without buying offsets. To learn more about Hines, visit www.hines.com and follow @Hines on social media. Includes both the global Hines organization as well as RIA AUM as of June 30, 2022.

 

 

We are an equal opportunity employer and support workforce diversity.

 

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