Regional HR Director, North America - Warner Robins, United States - Vencora

Description

Vencora Business Unit:
VBU - Vencora Insurance

Job Summary:

This role requires a skilled senior HR Leader, with a high growth mindset, and strong regional knowledge and experience, to support our North American businesses.

Partnering with senior stakeholders and the global HR team, the Group HR Director for North America defines the needs, implements the regional strategy, co-creates talent solutions, and provides leadership and support for the HR Partners within the business units.

They are the voice of the collective and individual businesses within their Group when providing input into the development of global HR strategies.

Acting as a trusted consultant and partner to the North American client group, across all aspects of talent planning and management, they also provide oversight, direction, and development for all HR teams across their Group and ensure compliance with all legislative and Portfolio practices.

This role requires someone who can be both strategic and operational, has good M&A experience (particularly around integrations), and is able to roll-up-their-sleeves and deliver.

The incumbent will have strong organisational and project management skills, be forward-thinking and proactive in making recommendations and investing ahead of the business growth curve to ensure our leaders and people are always enabled to be successful and supported in the best ways.

Ideally based in the Southeast USA, this role will require regular travel to our North American offices and other locations globally as/when required (for example, meetings with our businesses, for integration activity, and attending company conferences).

Job Description:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES &


ACCOUNTABILITIESSTRATEGIC AND TACTICAL:

Support the Chief HR Officer in the creation of our Portfolio's HR strategy; translate strategic plans into HR initiatives that achieve the end goal; and oversee the implementation within your Region to ensure all the key objectives are met.

Be strategically minded and growth focused, anticipating business needs in advance of the growth of your VBUs and Group.

This includes identifying high potential talent within the Group for future roles, having robust EDPs and succession plans in place; and providing opportunities for the HR team to get exposure to and training in relevant areas, enabling them to be developed and therefore considered as a candidate for future roles.

Continually develop a strong business acumen, regularly keeping updated and aligned on, and understanding, our business strategy, goals, priorities, talent strengths and risks.

Ensure you are keeping informed/aware of industry trends and market practices.


LEADERSHIP:

Build strong partnerships with your key Business Leaders/Stakeholders (including corporate function leaders within finance, legal, IT) and gain their support and buy-in to HR practices and initiatives.

With the North American HR team having a dotted line reporting into this role, provide leadership, support, and development (including coaching, and mentoring) for the HR partners.

As/when required, organize, direct, and evaluate the HR Team's function and performance in partnership with other business or HR Leaders.

Drive and support a high-performance culture within the business, whilst also providing thoughtful and effective coaching to leaders on all aspects of leadership to help grow, develop, and maximize their capabilities.

Drive various regionally focused HR Team policy and practice reviews or projects across your businesses, either acting as Project Manager, or delegating opportunities across the HR team to do so - for example, evolving remote workforce capabilities, culture, and accountabilities within region.

A CORE MEMBER OF THE INSURANCE HR TEAM:

• Partnering with the team (CHRO, HR Directors, HR Specialists) to:Create mandatory and optional programs, playbooks, policies, etc.

Develop and implement programs such as career paths, identifying high potential performers, succession planning (incl. identifying external talent), gap analysis leadership development, technical development, DEI, etc.

Aligned to our HR strategy, work with and support our Talent Development Specialist in developing and delivering training to our Senior Leaders, and training managers across the businesses on HR practices.

Be the voice and expert on your region's requirements, providing business context, input, and recommendations to meet your region/Group's business and/or legislative requirements.

Leverage technology / data (for example, Workday, Peakon) to enhance and drive our data, analytics, and predictive analytics capability, both measuring success and identifying patterns that highlight areas of concern, opportunity, and/or development, and make recommendations and report achievements.

Providing reports, plus presenting/report on, all areas of talent/people as and when required.


REGIONAL EXPERT:

Be the expert on North American (USA and Canada) employment legislation; responsible for ensuring compliance with all legislative and Portfolio requirements and practices.

Ensure you stay current/updated on all employment law and compliance for the region, and ensure effective plans are in operation to mitigate risk to the VBU, Portfolio, and Vencora.

(Immediately flag up any concerns or red flags and address/bring them to resolution.)In all areas, ensure that we consistently remain competitive, and regularly review our practices and processes with a view of continuous improvement.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS:

When required, take the lead, or work as part, of the due diligence team to gather, review, and assess data/information on the business's various HR practices, flagging any inconsistencies or areas of potential concern, and providing recommendation on how to address.

Leading or supporting the integration activity for the newly acquired business. (For global businesses, ensuring a global integration team is in place to define and align activities and timelines.

Where the head office is within your region, taking the lead on the integration globally, working with your other Regional/Group HR Directors and their teams who will take a supporting role in implementing integration activities locally.

In cases where the head office is in another region, following the lead of the relevant Regional/Group HR Director and taking the supporting role to implement the integration activities within your Region according to the aligned timeline.)

HR PARTNER:

Acting as HR Business Partner to all Vencora Portfolio employees based in North America, supporting the full employee lifecycle (recruitment to offboarding) and ensuring all USA-specific processes and communications take place.

For Vencora Insurance employees based in Canada, ensuring that they receive the same from the Canada team hosting them, or managing that direct as required.

GROUP SPECIFIC FOCUS

• Working in the Business:Partner with your business Group on a wide range of talent management and organizational business challenges.

Provide strategic and operational advice and recommendations to both business leaders and HR partners (such as organizational design, workforce planning, leadership development, performance optimization, talent assessment, succession planning, employee relations, change management, leadership coaching, retention, etc.).Responsible for all annual talent/HR processes and employee lifecycle events relating to all leaders within your Group, ensuring they are aware of all processes, communications, and actions they need to take in relation to their direct reports and their own personal employee actions.

Proactively working on removing silos and creating a sense of inclusion across the Vencora Insurance Portfolio Reviewing your various businesses within region and, where possible, aligning policies and practices to create consistency and equity across VBUs.

Partnering with your regional HR team and Senior business leaders to implement, and lead by example, the culture we want to embrace and embody across the Groups.

Executing employee engagement initiatives that support this.

Aligned to the Vencora D, E & I strategy and working with the Portfolio D, E & I Director, develop a holistic vision and plan on D, E & I strategies and practices that support our Portfolio ethos and mission, including enhancing the D, E & I organizational capabilities and trainings.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREDAble to think strategically and tactically execute on key initiatives/deliverables. Must be willing and able to be hands on and deliver.

Experience working in a high-growth business and demonstrated ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and change in a fast-paced environment.

Sound business acumen and able to understand commercial drivers.
Strong sense of ownership and drive, with a proven track record of success within a regional director role.

Expert/extensive, sound knowledge of employment law across the USA and at least a good knowledge of employment law knowledge in Canada.

Effective communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; highly collaborative and strong at building relationships with stakeholders and across the HR Group.

Able to influence and challenge where needed.

Proven track record of problem-solving and project management, particularly across various areas within HR, managing multiple areas of delivery in a timely, efficient, and effective way.

Previous experience working in Software/SaaS/technology and either the Insurance or Professional Services industry, particularly in a high-growth business, is highly desirable.

Ability and willingness to travel as and when needed, at times with short notice, is essential.


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