People Business Partner

By innovating the connection of risk and capital, Velocity Risk delivers specialty property insurance in catastrophe prone communities. We are transforming old insurance practices by embracing Nature’s volatility and turning “problems” into potential. Our uncommon approach to business creates uncommon careers where employees are empowered to flourish.

Would you describe yourself as someone who embodies positivity and encourages it in others? Do you enjoy solving problems with a focus on people? Can you turn your creativity and knack for collaboration into amazing initiatives? If that’s you, we need you!

As our People Business Partner, you will have an important role between employees and leadership, acting as a strategic Business Partner and employee advocate. You will coach leaders and assist employees in development to drive a high-performance culture and reward people's experience with high engagement. You must be passionate about people and growth to be successful in this role. You must be able to lean into hard conversations and address conflict head-on. This role is People-focused: talent retention, development, employee relations, high performance —if it’s about people, we will rely on you! You will serve as our expert in everything people to empower leaders to succeed and employees to reach their ultimate potential. We have the tools and systems in place. We are looking for you.

You will thrive in this position if you have these core capabilities…

•Communication – strong, confident, and balanced communicator able to shift conversational tone and impact to varying audiences.

•Decision Quality – calm under pressure and able to make tough, sometimes unpopular decisions leading to quality results.

•Autonomous – self-directed with a “start-up spirit”. Proactively takes ownership and leans into uncomfortable growth.

•Analytical and problem solving – having a growth mindset shifted toward analyzing data/situations and problem solving for continuous innovation and enhanced efficiencies.

•Servant-leader mindset

•Collaboration and a spirit of Camaraderie

Areas of focus and responsibilities:

•Partner with People leaders on talent issues, development needs, and engagement, and provide appropriate performance coaching. Provide recommendations to the CPO on people insights that can improve and enhance the people experience at Velocity.

•Office/site visits with Senior leader(s) to engage with people leaders on their team and departmental stats, to make recommendations, and set up leaders for improving and enhancing the employee experience (ultimately excelling in “people stats”)

•Conduct employee relations investigations and provide coaching and documentation to alleviate potential risks to the company.

•Support the CPO in Coaching and Developing leaders, providing guidance and coaching to new leaders and junior managers to enhance skills, foster high performance, and drive engagement in coordination with leadership development programs and initiatives.

•Partner with Director, People Operations Systems and Infrastructure on program development, changes, and implementation.

Demonstrated Experience for success in this role…

•3-5+ years’ experience as an HR Manager

•Demonstrated experience in coaching and development

•Demonstrated experience in employee relations and investigations

•Experience with data insights –taking data and doing impact analysis

Velocity Risk provides equal opportunity to everyone, and we do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of anyone.

As part of our application process, you will need to complete the Culture Index survey to move forward into our pipeline.

Culture Index Survey

We have offices in Nashville, TN; Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA; and Chicago, IL. This is a full-time position based out of our headquarters located outside Green Hills, TN. We have a hybrid work model. This role is required to be in the office Tuesday-Thursday.

We strive to ensure our employees have the best experience possible! We provide comprehensive and competitive benefits packs for our full-time employees.

•Medical, Dental, and Vision fully subsidized by Velocity

•Health Savings Account with employer contributions

•401k after 6 months of employment

•Education and Certification Reimbursement and Bonus programs

•Paid Time off and company Holidays with floating holidays for flexibility

•Gym membership reimbursements

•Volunteer rewards and “give-back” initiatives

•In-office lunch provided