Senior Human Resources Business Partner Job Listing at EPIC in New York, NY (Job ID 7292052002)

Description

Role:                     Senior HR Business Partner

Location:             Hybrid / NY Metro

EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has a nationwide presence with a depth of industry expertise across key lines of insurance, including commercial property and casualty, employee benefits, unique specialty program insurance, and private client services. As we continue our growth across the country, we remain acutely focused on delivering service excellence to our clients as well as maintaining EPIC's “people first” culture that helps our employees thrive.

At EPIC, HR is more than just solving people's problems. It's having a seat at the table, partnering with business leaders, and delivering results to drive organizational growth.  The Senior HR Business Partner will use their outstanding people skills to lead, plan and direct our talent policies, activities, and to ensure that our human resources programs and initiatives are effective, efficient, and aligned to overall business objectives and talent strategy.

This role will work with a team that drives employee engagement and a culture where all employees can thrive by developing and supporting programs targeted throughout the employee lifecycle. The Senior HR Business Partner will help support the business by developing relationships with leadership across the organization, forecasting staffing needs, designing accountability mechanisms, helping to manage out poor performers and develop those with high potential, devising programs that help retain talent, strengthens relations between staff and leadership, consults on compensation matters and mitigates conflict and risk.

This role is designated as a hybrid role in the New York Metro area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to regional employees and managers including coaching, career development, performance improvement plans and the performance review process.
• Work closely with leadership to develop and drive the corporate culture, lead employee engagement initiatives, boost morale and improve retention rates.
• Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues and when necessary, conduct effective, thorough, and objective investigations from start to end while providing fair guidance in confidential situations.
• Collaborate with managers to build out workforce and succession plans for teams ensuring the accomplishment of business objectives.
• Responsible for monitoring, briefing leadership and responding to any workplace issue; compliance need; trend, etc.
• Proactively drive projects and initiatives and critically think about business needs to provide guidance and support.
• Monitor the health of the business and talent using a variety of KPIs and presents relevant data to business leaders.
• Analyze HR trends and metrics resulting in the development of solutions, programs, and policies to drive achievement of firm-wide and departmental goals.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Ability to partner with Centers of Excellence driving initiatives and programs throughout their population.
• Identify training needs of business units within region, collaborate with COEs on solutions, coordinate training programs and follow up to ensure training outcomes; at times, leads local training.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition Partner and local hiring managers to effectively recruit for open positions in region while staying cognizant of budget.
• Assure wage administration policies are equitable and appropriate within the guidelines of corporate budget, marketplace considerations and job analysis.
• Promote positive employee relationships through communication and interpretation of HR Policies.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to junior members of HR team.

Key Competencies:

• Relationship Building – Develops effective long-term professional interactions with others based on trust: trust that they will always work toward the best interest of those involved and that they are sufficiently competent to provide positive results.
• Collaboration and Teamwork – Works interdependently and collaboratively with others to achieve mutual goals. They subordinate individual aims in the interest of working with others in a way that promotes and encourages each person's contributions toward achieving optimal outcomes.
• Effective Communication – Provides the information required by others in a concise, direct, and unambiguous way. They strive to ensure that the receiver clearly understands the specifics of their message, and they can listen to, receive, and understand messages conveyed by others.
• Professionalism – Meticulously adhere to values such as courtesy, respect, honesty, and responsibility in all dealings with peers, managers, customers, partners, members of the community, and other stakeholders.
• Leading Change – Effectively creates a vision for change and engages others to align, participate and implement the change process.
• Fact-Based Management – Views the organization as an open system, able to synthesize information from diverse sources, come to conclusions, and make decisions that are rational and based on sound evidence.
• Continuous Learning – Takes responsibility for their own learning and professional development. They are objectively aware of the knowledge and skills required to grow in their career, actively seek out professional development resources to address knowledge and skills needs and exhibit the personal discipline to accomplish learning goals.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Minimum of 8 years of HR experience and a working knowledge of multiple HR disciplines.
• SHRM- SCP, SPHR and other HR related professional certifications preferred.

Join our team at EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants as a Senior HR Business Partner and contribute to the success of our talent strategy in the Northeast region. Apply now and be part of a dynamic and growing organization.

The national average salary for this role is $90,000 to $115,000 in base pay and exclusive of any bonuses or benefits. The base pay offered will be determined based on your experience, skills, training, certifications and education, while also considering internal equity and market data.

WHY JOIN US? 

• 15th Largest Broker in US
• Voted " Best Place to Work" in the Insurance Industry
• Awesome Benefits:  401K matching, Generous Time Off Policy, Flexible Work Options, Medical, Dental, Vision, Pet Insurance, Cancer Insurance, Wellness Programs, Employee Award Programs (Trips!).

EPIC embraces diversity in all its various forms—whether it be diversity of thought, background, race, religion, gender, skills or experience. We are committed to fostering a work community where every colleague feels welcomed, valued, respected and heard. It is our belief that diversity drives innovation and that creating an environment where every employee feels included and empowered, helps us to deliver the best outcome to our clients.