Senior People Business Partner

- Strategic People Partnership: Serve as the People Business Partner for your assigned region, partnering with Market Owners and hospital leaders to translate business priorities into practical People strategies that strengthen hospital performance, leader effectiveness, talent health, retention, engagement, and the VEGgie experience.

- Field Presence & Trust Building: Spend meaningful time in hospitals across your geography to build trusted relationships with VEGgies and leaders, stay close to field reality, and ensure People support is grounded in what is actually happening in the hospitals.

- Leader Coaching & Employee Relations: Coach Market Owners and hospital leaders through performance management, employee relations, conflict, engagement, difficult conversations, and sensitive people moments with care, consistency, urgency, and sound judgment.

- Talent, Performance & People Processes: Support regional execution of core People processes, including talent reviews, succession and development planning, engagement surveys, performance reviews, retention initiatives, compensation reviews, and growth plan adoption.

- Data, Pattern Recognition & Risk Management: Use people data, field insights, and recurring themes across hospitals to identify talent, engagement, retention, performance, and employee relations risks; diagnose root causes; and bring forward practical recommendations.

- Change Adoption & Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with People COEs, Talent, Legal, VQ, and regional operations teams to support adoption of People initiatives, escalate systemic themes, improve program usability, and protect the VEG culture in hospital reality.

- 3-5+ years of progressive Human Resources / People experience, including meaningful HRBP or People Business Partner experience supporting leaders through complex people, performance, engagement, and employee relations matters.

- Experience supporting distributed, field-based, multi-site, healthcare, retail, hospitality, veterinary, or similarly high-growth operational environments strongly preferred.

- Strong business judgment with the ability to connect People decisions to operational outcomes, staffing health, retention, engagement, leader effectiveness, and the employee experience.

- Trusted-advisor presence with the credibility to influence senior field leaders, challenge constructively, coach through ambiguity, and hold the bar in high-stakes situations.

- Proven experience managing complex employee relations issues, facilitating difficult conversations, supporting documentation, and applying HR policies and employment law considerations with sound judgment.

- Ability to recognize patterns across data and field signals, diagnose root causes, and turn engagement, retention, employee relations, and performance trends into practical recommendations.

- Experience supporting performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, development planning, engagement action planning, and leader coaching.

- Comfort spending significant time in hospitals with frontline teams; ability to travel up to 50-70% of the time.

- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business, or related field preferred.

- Competitive Compensation Including ($125,000 - $175,000) + bonus + benefits.

- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits that start on day one, and access to free therapy or counseling

- Paid parental leave, up to 12 weeks at 100% of regular salary, and offering inclusive fertility and family-building care for all types of families

- Unlimited PTO to use for vacation or sick days-however you need it!

- Generous employee referral program, so our awesome people can bring in more awesome people.

- And the little (big) things, like casual office attire, ability to bring your fur baby to work, cool VEG swag, food in the fridge for when you're hungry and free lunches twice a week!!

Our hospitals thrive on in-person collaboration, and VQ is no different. Time in the office sparks stronger connections, meaningful conversations, and better results-all bringing our core values to life. We prioritize being present because our values are best achieved side by side.

Plus, we make getting here easy with free parking and a shuttle from the White Plains Metro-North station.