Strategic Human Resources Partner

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere.

Are you passionate about driving business success through impactful people strategies? In this dynamic role, you'll collaborate closely with senior business leaders, executives, and Human Resources experts to design and deliver innovative strategies that align with business objectives, enhance the associate experience, and fuel organizational growth.

As a key advisor, you'll focus on executive coaching while leading the development and implementation of talent strategies, engagement action plans, workforce planning, and change management initiatives. You'll also play a pivotal role in shaping technical learning solutions that empower teams to thrive and achieve business goals. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact, this is your opportunity to thrive at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and people.

Strategic Partnership

• Collaborate with senior leaders and executives to develop and execute people and functional learning strategies that increase organizational and individual performance to deliver on business goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor providing consultation, coaching, and guidance on complex people and talent issues.
• Provide information and insights to enable data-driven human capital decisions, leveraging HR and business metrics to analyze and identify issues, needs, and trends.

Talent Management & Workforce Planning

• Drive the execution of global HR initiatives at the local level, including performance management, compensation planning, succession planning, and employee engagement.
• Evaluate internal and external talent capabilities and drive actionable plans to identify, develop, and grow talent through succession and development planning.
• Lead strategic and operational workforce planning efforts across a complex and diverse (global) portfolio of vendors and employees.

Organizational Design & Effectiveness

• Lead organizational design and transformation activities, including deploying processes to assist leaders with decision-making for effective staffing and structure.
• Support transformation-related change activities applicable to client groups.

HR Functional Collaboration

• Develop strong working relationships with HR Centers of Expertise, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Total Rewards, and HR Operations.
• Provide thought leadership to ensure the successful delivery of innovative HR services and solutions across the enterprise.

Talent Development & Capability Building

• Responsible for creating and deploying technical learning solutions for that align with talent strategies applicable to client groups.
• Act as a mentor and dotted-line leader to other HR professionals, fostering a sense of urgency, proactive problem-solving, and a commitment to high performance.

Performance Management

• Facilitate high-quality deployment and delivery of enterprise people processes, including annual performance management, compensation planning, talent management, and employee engagement.

Culture & Employee Engagement

• Drive initiatives that support and reinforce a collaborative, aligned, and engaged culture.
• Act as a cultural steward, promoting an inclusive, high-performance culture that supports collaboration and alignment across geographically dispersed teams.

Change Management

• Use enterprise change management philosophies to guide large-scale change management efforts and drive the successful implementation of key organizational initiatives within assigned client groups.

Compliance

• Lead efforts to ensure compliance with local labor laws and regulations.

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Human Resources; HR and/or Change Management Certification a plus
• 12+ years of experience in a human resources business partner role including prior experience leading executive-level talent strategies and execution for medium to large scale transformations
• Strategic thinking, change management, data-driven decision making, data analysis & modeling, technical learning, innovative & agile mindset, strategic & operational workforce planning
• Ability to develop innovative and agile HR solutions tailored to client group complexities.
• Proven ability to build and lead learning programs focused on technical and leadership development.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to balance long-term goals and day-to-day operational needs ensuring global initiatives are tailored and effective at local level.
• Strong business acumen.
• Expertise in managing complex, cross-cultural dynamics across global regions.