Director HR Business Partners - Corporate Services

OU Health, Oklahoma’s flagship academic health system, is seeking a high-caliber Director, HR Business Partners (HRBP) – Corporate Services. In this pivotal leadership role, you will serve as a cultural anchor, driving strategic people and culture initiatives that ensure high employee engagement and a relentless focus on excellence across our corporate functions.

You will act as a premier strategic partner to executive and senior leadership, influencing the development of programs and policies that align human capital with overall business strategy. As an expert in performance management, organizational development, and change leadership, you will guide our corporate teams through transformation while mentoring a high-performing team of HR Business Partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership: Influence and guide senior leaders in developing organizational capabilities, ensuring HR support activities are seamlessly integrated with business goals.
• Leadership &
  
  Coaching:
  
  Lead, motivate, and develop a team of HRBPs, fostering a culture of accountability, excellence, and continuous feedback.
• Culture & Engagement: Champion the "OU Health Way" to create an environment where employees feel valued, inspired, and empowered to deliver top business results.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Collect and interpret quality data and analytics to inform human capital strategies and proactively address business challenges.
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  Risk Management:
  
  Anticipate people-related risks and develop proactive mitigation plans.
• Change Management: Lead organizational change efforts, helping teams navigate transitions with resilience and strategic focus.

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General Description:

The Director HR Business Partner (HRBP) will embrace the shared responsibility required for leading Strategic People and Culture initiatives, champion the “OU Health Way” to serve as a cultural anchor to consistency delivery high employee engagement, ensure there is requisite top talent to meet our organizational needs, and will be driven by relentless focus on excellence.

Primarily responsible for serving as a strategic partner with executive/senior leaders to build organizational capability through influencing and guiding the development and deployment of strategies, programs, policies, and procedures, ensuring human resources support activities are aligned with the overall business strategy, and overseeing the implementation of organizational change efforts. Viewed as a leader and expert in all functional areas of Human Resources with an emphasis on performance management, transformation and change management, talent management, employee relations, and organizational development.

Responsible for operational success, strategic alignment and integration of activities with other HR and organizational functions. Leads a team of HR Business Partners and is fully accountable for the success of the designated function or department.

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.

• Develops and implements strategy for the HRBP team’s service delivery, setting and maintaining a roadmap for team development that supports the needs of the organization.
• Cultivates and motivates direct/indirect reports through coaching, mentoring, and by providing regular and meaningful feedback.
• Distribute work among team members (including self, this role will also execute project deliverables), set expectations, drive accountability, and deliver projects with excellence.
• Forges strong relationships across the organization by listening, understanding needs, defining shared objectives, proactively consulting, and collaborating to meet organizational goals.
• Partners with various stakeholders establish programs to ensure the effectiveness of people strategies, appropriate use of resources, performance against goals, and effectiveness of the team and to champion and accelerate a culture of excellence in which people feel engaged and inspired to deliver top business results.
• Anticipate and…