Senior Manager, People Partner
New York
Edelman – People /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
Edelman’s People Team is seeking a dynamic ambassador, trusted business partner, and consummate team player to join our people team (human resources) as Senior Manager, People Partner supporting our US Health Team based in New York. You’ll be joining a collaborative People team that is passionate about the work they do to support, grow, and retain the best talent in our industry. You will have the opportunity to lead talent strategies for key business units by creating strong partnerships with senior business leaders, talent acquisition, finance, and resource management.
If you have a background in managing talent across sectors and geographies and love driving programming to develop future talent, then this job is for you! This role will be based in our New York office in a hybrid model (combination of working in the office at least three days a week and from home).
Responsibilities and Expectations:
- SKILLS:
- Manage local and/or regional programs, initiatives, and projects for the US Health Team
- Develop, roll out, and lead internal programs, best practices, and process improvements
- Ensure programs and processes align to business strategies
- Evaluate, inform, coach, and motivate employees, managers, and hiring managers
- Display and coach others to exhibit sound judgment regarding full scope of work
- Diplomatically navigate and leverage resources and stakeholders to provide mutually-beneficial solutions to problems, conflicts, and/or employee relations issues
- Support and assist in developing internal strategies and implementation plans
- Recruit, evaluate, coach, train and motivate employees and leaders
- Exhibit and teach others exceptional project, time, and people management skills
- Lead specialty function responsibilities and projects, such as interview processes, new hire onboarding, and/or diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Serve as strategic partner to employees, managers, hiring managers, and/or candidates to help resolve issues, make informed decisions, navigate workplace dynamics, and drive career growth
- Positively impact culture that maps to the firm’s vision, mission, and values
- BEHAVIORS:
- Serves as a positive role model; supports and respects colleagues, clients, and partners; focuses on self-improvement and ensures work is based on strategic insights
- Effectively and consistently manages strengths and weaknesses of self and others; enables self and others to bring the best of their skills and talents to work; is consistently ambitious in setting and achieving goals
- Always takes all feedback as a constructive learning opportunity and acts upon it; enables others to thrive as part of agency life and adapts to others’ styles to do so; ensures excellence is repeated by rigorously identifying and socializing key learnings for all colleagues
- Pushes for creative ideas; is purposeful and enterprising in problem-solving; embraces diverse trends, skills, specialties, and viewpoints
- Delivers substantial change for clients and the communities in which we operate; ensures new insights from self and others fuel innovation in agency approach and client work; uses diversity of perspective to elevate client counsel, the agency, and own career
- Effectively implements change for clients and agency in a way that demonstrates powerful and unique thinking; uses thoughtful, strategic insights and knowledge to balance risk-taking for clients and the agency; holds others accountable for open-mindedness and embracing diverse viewpoints
- Ensures work and relationships are founded on open and honest communications; listens and asks the right questions during day-to-day work; upholds creative, ethical, and legal standards
- Ensures that client counsel and agency action is always purposeful and challenging; prioritizes the interests of the wider agency; holds subordinates, peers, and superiors accountable for demonstrating integrity and ethical behavior
- Demonstrates a strategic and thoughtful approach in challenging others to ask the right questions; prioritizes the interests of client service excellence ahead of individual advancement
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 6 years progressive experience in Human Resources or a related field
- BS/BA in a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- HR management certification/PHR/SPHR preferred
- Experience in innovative HR management in a professional services environment
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail
- Ability to and experience overseeing multiple projects and prioritizing appropriately under pressure
- Ability to and experience in effectively managing and coaching people
- Ability to and experience in efficiently and creatively solving problems
- Ability to and experience in effectively leading trainings and presentations
- Understanding of applicable employment laws and experience managing employee relations situations
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
$73,000 - $126,000 a year
An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.
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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).
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