People Business Partner - North America
tonies® USA
Senior HR Business Partner, Product, Engineering & Operations
AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)
full-time
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Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership across Product, Engineering, and Central Operations.
- Translate business strategies into actionable people plans, driving organisational effectiveness, talent optimisation, and cultural alignment.
- Proactively identify and solve opportunities to boost organisational performance and drive business growth through strategic people initiatives.
- Provide thought leadership on compensation & benefits and learning & development.
- Develop and implement people strategies supporting commercial goals including revenue growth and profitability.
- Provide strategic insights on organisational design, talent, people experience and performance management.
- Measure and demonstrate the ROI of people initiatives and align people strategies with key business metrics.
- Partner with People Operations, Workplace, and Talent to ensure an integrated people experience across the employee journey.
- Lead/support cross-functional initiatives to boost employee engagement, well-being, and development.
- Drive talent strategy including succession planning, leadership development, and talent pipeline management.
- Design and drive development programmes to enhance leadership capabilities.
- Lead complex organisational design initiatives and large-scale change management, influencing stakeholders without authority.
- Translate analytics into actionable recommendations, develop HR metric reports, and monitor industry trends.
Requirements
- You’ve been a People Partner or HRBP in a large, complex business and have operated at senior level with accountability for driving real change.
- You know how to challenge thoughtfully, influence without authority, navigate ambiguity, and challenge thoughtfully.
- You’ve delivered end-to-end people programmes and owned the full accountability for outcomes in environments with competing demands and complex stakeholders.
- You’re data-fluent, comfortable pulling insights from people data and using it to influence outcomes.
- You’ve partnered with COE's before, but also know how to build when the infrastructure doesn’t exist.
- You bring critical thinking, strong judgement, and a bias for action and innovation.
- You care deeply about inclusion, impact, and building healthy, high-performance cultures.
- Understanding of engineering and product team structures and central operations (legal, finance, people).
