HR Generalist II - Newark, NJ

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey's health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our nei ...

Job description

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey's health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our neighbors, our friends, and our families. It is this understanding that drives us to better serve and care for the 3.5 million people who place their trust in us. We pride ourselves on our best-in-class employees and strive to maintain an innovative and inclusive environment that allows them to thrive. When our employees bring their best and succeed, the Company succeeds.

The Senior Human Resources Business Partner (Senior HRBP) is a strategic, influential advisor responsible for shaping and executing people strategies that enable business performance, organizational effectiveness, and a strong culture of engagement. Serving as a trusted partner to senior leaders, the Senior HRBP provides thought leadership in organizational design, talent planning, change leadership, and complex employee relations. This position plays a critical role in aligning HR strategy with business goals while ensuring consistent and high-quality employee experience across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as a senior-level advisor to executives and business leaders, providing guidance on workforce planning, organizational strategy, team effectiveness, and leadership capability.
• Deeply understand the business's goals, operating model, and challenges to develop integrated people solutions that accelerate performance.
• Use analytics, trend data, and insight-driven decision-making to proactively identify opportunities and mitigate risks.

Organizational Effectiveness & Workforce Planning

• Lead organizational design efforts, including structure assessments, capability mapping, role clarity, and change impact analysis.
• Partner with business leaders to forecast talent needs and ensure the workforce is aligned to short- and long-term business plans.
• Facilitate discussions that elevate team dynamics, trust-building, leadership effectiveness, and cross-functional collaboration.

Talent Management & Leadership Development

• Drive the talent lifecycle, including succession planning, performance management, leadership pipeline development, and high-potential identification.
• Coach executives and people leaders to enhance leadership competencies, strengthen decision-making, and elevate team performance.
• Partnership closely with Learning & Development to design or deploy targeted development experiences.

Employee Relations & Culture Stewardship

• Provide advanced guidance on complex employee relations matters, partnering with Legal and Employee Relations as needed.
• Promote and reinforce an inclusive culture where employees feel valued, supported, and connected to the mission.
• Support leaders in navigating change with transparency, empathy, and clear communication.

Program Integration & HR Excellence

• Collaborate with Centers of Excellence (COEs) such as Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Inclusion, Opportunity & Talent Development, and HR Operations to deliver seamless HR solutions.
• Ensure strong execution of HR programs, processes, and policies across the supported business areas.
• Drive consistency, equity, and fairness in all people-related decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field.
• 7–10+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant time in an HR Business Partner or consultative HR role.
• Expertise in organizational design, change management, talent planning, and complex employee relations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and coach senior leaders.
• Strong business acumen and ability to interpret data to drive decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or advanced HR certification (SPHR, SHRM-SCP).
• Experience in a matrixed, multi-site, or regulated environment.
• Prior experience supporting senior executives or large-scale business units.

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Horizon BCBSNJ employees must live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Delaware

Salary Range:

$97,800 - $133,455

This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. This range has been created in good faith based on information known to Horizon at the time of posting. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. Horizon also provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package which includes:

• Comprehensive health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision)
• Retirement Plans
• Generous PTO
• Incentive Plans
• Wellness Programs
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement

Disclaimer:

This job summary has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by colleagues within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of colleagues assigned to this job.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability and any other protected class as required by federal, state or local law. Horizon will consider reasonable accommodation requests as part of the recruiting and hiring process.