Carex is partnering with a behavioral healthcare provider to hire a Senior Manager, HR Business Partners. This is a strategic people leadership opportunity for an experienced HR leader who is passionate about building high-performing teams, coaching senior leaders, and shaping an evolving HR Business Partner function. This role serves as a trusted advisor to VP-level business leaders while leading and developing a team of HR Business Partners supporting multi-state clinical operations. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, transformational environments, brings strong business acumen, and has a proven track record of driving measurable people and business outcomes. Candidates based on the West Coast are strongly preferred.
Duration: Contract-to-Hire
Pay: $85-95/hr+, commensurate with experience
Location: Fully remote, preference to West Coast candidates
What You'll Do
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of HR Business Partners, building capability, consistency, and succession strength across the function.
• Partner directly with VP-level and senior operational leaders as a strategic advisor on organizational design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, and talent strategy.
• Help evolve the HR Business Partner organization toward a proactive, strategic, outcomes-driven model that aligns people strategy with business priorities.
• Coach leaders through complex employee relations matters, performance management, organizational change, leadership development, and high-impact feedback conversations.
• Oversee complex employee relations escalations, ensuring consistent, defensible, and compliant HR practices while partnering with Legal and HR Leadership as appropriate.
• Monitor workforce trends including retention, turnover, vacancy rates, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement, translating insights into actionable business recommendations.
• Influence business outcomes by leveraging people metrics and operational data to improve workforce stability and organizational performance.
• Lead change management initiatives, including organizational restructures, leadership transitions, and business transformation efforts.
• Partner cross-functionally with HR Centers of Excellence and business leaders to drive enterprise-wide initiatives, policy implementation, and continuous improvement.
• Reinforce best practices for documentation, communication, risk mitigation, and leadership coaching across supported regions.
• Represent the HR Business Partner function in strategic initiatives while providing regional insights that influence enterprise priorities and decision-making.
What You'll Bring
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive HR Business Partner, employee relations, leadership coaching, or strategic HR experience.
• 3+ years of direct people leadership experience managing and developing HR Business Partners or comparable strategic HR professionals.
• Demonstrated success partnering with VP-level or senior business leaders on complex organizational and workforce initiatives.
• Proven experience coaching, mentoring, and developing HRBP talent, including succession planning and capability building.
• Strong business and operational acumen with the ability to connect people strategies to measurable business outcomes and operational KPIs.
• Experience leading change management initiatives, including organizational redesigns, restructures, or business transformation efforts.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose workforce challenges, analyze trends, and translate data into actionable solutions.
• Strong knowledge of employee relations, performance management, employment law, and risk mitigation practices.
• Experience working within large, matrixed, multi-site, or rapidly scaling organizations.
• Healthcare or clinical operations experience is strongly preferred; experience supporting distributed, multi-site retail or similarly complex environments will also be considered.
• Familiarity with Workday or comparable HRIS platforms is preferred.
• Highly adaptable with a growth mindset, strong initiative, and excitement for helping build and shape an evolving HR Business Partner function.
Carex Consulting Group is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital
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