Senior HR Business Partner

Role Snapshot
Ready to elevate your impact? As an HR Business Partner, you'll work side by side with leaders to connect people strategies to business goals. You'll bring insight, curiosity, and clarity to complex situations-helping teams grow stronger, adapt faster, and perform at their best. This is an opportunity to use your HR expertise to drive real business results while shaping a culture where people thrive.

Salary Range
$80,000 ~ $100,000
The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, experience and may fall outside the posted range.
Work Location
Our first consideration will be Hybrid, to have this new employee live in the state of Wisconsin to take advantage of Hybrid work and collaboration. Employees living within 45 miles of WPS Headquarters (1717 W. Broadway in Madison, WI) will be expected to be able to work Hybrid 2 days a week on a regular basis.

Secondary priority will be given to remote candidates in WI, IL, MN or IA.
** If not regionally local to Madison, WI, frequent monthly travel to our WPS Headquarters (1717 W. Broadway in Madison, WI) will be expected.

How do I know this opportunity is right for me? We're looking for someone with the following experience:

• Building strong relationships with leaders to understand goals, challenges, and opportunities.
• The ability to successfully influence without authority.

• Proven experiencing translating business objectives into people strategies (talent strategy, engagement, retention, capability building, etc.).
• Leading leaders and teams through change with clarity, consistency, and empathy.
• Partnering with hiring managers to create job descriptions that clearly define role success.
• Advising managers on performance management, employee relations, and policy interpretation.
• Coaching on leadership behaviors and effectiveness, team performance, and culture.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or equivalate degree or work experience.
• 5 or more years of progressive Human Resources experience, including experience as an HR Business Partner or Generalist in a multi-state environment.
• Working knowledge of employment law, compliance, and HR policies.
• Solid knowledge of workforce planning, organizational design, talent management, and employee relations best practices.
• Ability to build relationships and influence managers through sound judgment and HR expertise.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 or more years of experience working in Human Recourses in a large enterprise level environment.
• Certification as a Professional of Human Resources (PHR), SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP), or Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).
• Exposure to Unions/Bargaining Units.

Remote Work Requirements

• High speed cable or fiber internet
• Minimum of 10 Mbps downstream and at least 1 Mbps upstream internet connection (can be checked at https://speedtest.net)
• Please review Remote Worker FAQs for additional information

Benefits

• Remote and hybrid work options available
• Performance bonus and/or merit increase opportunities
• 401(k) with a 100% match for the first 3% of your salary and a 50% match for the next 2% of your salary (100% vested immediately)
• Competitive paid time off
• Health insurance, dental insurance, and telehealth services start DAY 1
• Professional and Leadership Development Programs
• Review additional benefits: (https://www.wpshealthsolutions.com/careers/fulltime_benefits.shtml)

Who We Are

WPS, a health solutions company, is a leading not-for-profit health insurer and federal government contractor headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. WPS offers health insurance plans for individuals, families, seniors and group health plans for small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer support for beneficiaries of the Medicare program and manage benefits for millions of active-duty and retired military personnel across the U.S. and abroad. WPS has been making healthcare easier for the people we serve for nearly 80 years. Proud to be military and veteran ready.

Culture Drives Our Success

WPS' culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are seen, fueled and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an open and empowering employee experience. We recognize the benefits of employee engagement as an investment in our workforce-both current and future-to effectively seek, leverage, and include differing and unique perspectives that fuel agility and innovation on high-performing teams. This results in people bringing their authentic selves to work every day in an organization that successfully adapts to business changes and new opportunities.

We are proud of the recognition we have received from local and national organization regarding our culture and workplace: WPS Newsroom - Awards and Recognition.

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