Director, Sales HRBP
As the Strategic Sales HR Business Partner, you will be a critical link between the Sales organization and the HR function, ensuring that HR strategies and initiatives are aligned with the sales objectives. You will work closely with sales leaders and teams to drive talent acquisition, performance management, and employee engagement efforts that support sales effectiveness and growth.
As a trusted Advisor, you will establish close relationships built on trust; act as the sounding board, have open and direct conversations, challenge ideas and provide opinions to influence business decisions. You will be an advocate for employees, working closely with leaders in identifying the impact of their decisions could have on their people.
What You’ll Get To Do:
- Partner with Sales leadership to understand business goals and develop HR strategies that support sales objectives, including revenue targets, market expansion, and customer satisfaction.
- Strong understanding of the Sales Go-to- Market activities and lifecycle. Partnering with sales leaders through the wing-to-wing process from strategic planning to execution.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Sales leaders, providing strategic HR guidance and consultation on talent management, employee development, organizational design, and employee relations.
- Collaborate with Sales leadership to identify talent needs. Partner with Talent Acquisition on recruitment strategies to attract, hire, and retain top sales talent. Identify opportunities for internal talent mobility.
- Work in partnership with our employee relations and compensation teams to lead initiatives that will assess and enhance the effectiveness of the sales organization, including sales performance management and compensation.
- Analyze sales and HR data to identify trends, insights, and opportunities for improvement, and provide recommendations to drive sales productivity and performance.
- Enhance the HR processes and practices by analyzing HR metrics and data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement, and provide recommendations.
- Foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork between Sales and HR, facilitating effective communication and partnership across departments.
- Work with Talent Management to collaborate on organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and skills assessment to support the successful implementation of Dayforce’s strategic imperatives.
- Partner with the Total Rewards team in driving compensation and benefits strategies and proactively identify challenges and opportunities within the sales organization.
- Lead high impact projects with on-time delivery, measurable outcomes and impact, and robust communication/change management; drive HR events such as annual review, compensation, and policy related implementations.
- Collaborate closely with other regional HRBP business partners to exchange best practices and ensure we are consistently delivering best-in-class service to our clients.
Skills And Experience We Value:
- 12+ years of total HR experience; minimum 7 years of prior HR Business Partner experience.
- Must have experience partnering with the sales function and demonstrated progressed HRBP roles.
- HR Management: Strong understanding and experience with core aspects of HR functions – staffing; employee & labor relations; performance management; leadership development; training.
- Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated ability to think strategically and translate concepts into actionable items.
- Business acumen: Good business sense and judgement reflected in key decisions made within the business and HR function.
- Problem solving: Well-honed analytical and problem-solving skills. Creative, risk-taking and results oriented mindset.
- Influencing: Communicates with impact. Use tailored communication and create authentic and trusting relationships to influence clients, especially related to organizational planning & design. Proven ability to influence decision making; courage to make tough decisions and deliver difficult messages with professional and poise.
- Agile: Comfortable working in ambiguous business situations; highly adaptable to a fluid and ever-changing work environment.
- Consultative: Strong coaching, consulting, and facilitation skills. Must possess consultative style and approach with proven ability to develop credible relationships.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to accomplish work through others, including leading project teams. Demonstrated experience in initiating and leading change, including modeling the importance, motivating others, managing the key drivers of change, and overcoming obstacles. Excellent follow-through skills and the ability to anticipate and address business needs proactively.
- Previous talent management and succession planning experience preferred.
- Possess a strong work ethic; self-motivated with a desire to take initiative and look for ways to improve processes and create efficiencies; have a strong sense of urgency.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills in managing through multiple priorities with overlapping tasks across multiple businesses.
- Team-oriented attitude balanced with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Maintains strict confidentiality and adheres to a high standard of professional conduct.
What Would Make You Really Stand Out:
- Global HR experience
- Sales HRBP experience in a global company
- Ability to use data to tell a story.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
- Exercise a high degree of professionalism and diplomacy in interactions with all levels of the organization.
- Strong experience and demonstrated skills in handling a variety of employee relations matters.
- Global HR experience
- Sales HRBP experience in a global company
- Ability to use data to tell a story.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
- Exercise a high degree of professionalism and diplomacy in interactions with all levels of the organization.
- Strong experience and demonstrated skills in handling a variety of employee relations matters.