Director, Strategic HR Business Partner

• Partner with senior leaders to create talent management strategies
• Coach executives
• Lead performance management processes
• Drive organizational change initiatives
• Form effective partnerships with senior leaders to understand the business strategy and translate that strategy into strategic and operational Talent plans
• Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders (VP+) on highly critical and often complex talent and people related issues
• Accountable for driving toward excellence in Talent Management across the Employee lifecycle
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to recruit and onboard senior leaders
• create and implement targeted TA strategies to achieve business goals
• Lead the performance management and talent review process and partner with leaders to ensure appropriate development plans are in place to support employee growth
• Guide leaders to identify functional competencies and performance dimensions for specific roles
• Coach and build capability of managers to be effective people leaders
• Partner with SVP, Talent Strategy Partner and senior leadership teams to develop a workforce planning strategy
• Implement plans to ensure adoption of new processes and protection of Cengage’s culture and values
• Partner with the Inclusion & Diversity lead to support development and execution of inclusion programs
• Lead projects that are prioritized and critical to the talent agenda – examples include, but not limited to – compensation reviews, proactive retention, etc.
• Be a catalyst for organizational change
• orchestrate organizational re-design efforts as needed, including Mergers & Acquisitions
• Leverage data and business mentality to pull out insights and proactively anticipate implications for talent strategy
• present recommendations to influence actions
• Actively contribute to the global HR community to increase the capability and strategic value of the human resource function
• Effectively communicate progress and key findings and results from projects and discussions with key partners including HR team members, employees, and leaders within the business and the function.

• Minimum 10 years of experience as an HR professional with a minimum of 5 years supporting an organization’s leadership team
• Experience in developing and implementing talent strategies for high performance organizations
• Superior collaboration and communication skills with executive presence. Strong presentation skills and comfort level with addressing groups of all types and sizes.
• Experience in supporting and driving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programming
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic and sophisticated environment
• Ability to use data to develop insights and recommendations
• Strong coaching, conflict resolution and ability to have difficult conversations
• Ability to lead-by-example and promote a positive, team-based environment.
• Comfort with ambiguity and constant change, able to methodically work through sophisticated problems, set priorities and complete commitments.
• Proficiency with Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel up to 20% for required team meetings and other business unit events
• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred or equivalent experience

• Experience working with Global/International teams
• Workday experience a plus

Discretionary incentive bonus program with a 25% annual individual target