Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Workforce and Operations Business Partner is the senior workforce & performance partner to leaders across Operations, Finance, and Technology. The role connects business priorities to decisions about how work is designed, how organizations are structured, and how workforce capability is built and sustained.

Note: Ideal candidate should reside in Chicago, Milwaukee or Detroit area to travel to HALO's corporate office in Sterling, IL (2 hours west of Chicago) and/or our nearby satellite offices on an as-needed basis.
Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic business partner

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across Operations, Finance, and Technology and engage early in business and operating decisions.
• Translate business priorities, growth plans, and operating challenges into an integrated Workforce & Performance agenda.
• Connect workforce recommendations to execution, productivity, cost, service, risk, capability, and employee-experience outcomes.

Lead organization, work, and workforce design

• Diagnose and improve organization structures, roles, spans, layers, decision rights, handoffs, capabilities, and team effectiveness.
• Lead workforce planning and workforce-mix recommendations across employees, contractors, onshore/offshore teams, external partners, technology, automation, AI, and agents.
• Ensure new work models have clear accountability, human oversight, escalation paths, access controls, governance, performance measures, and sustainability plans.

Strengthen talent, leadership, and performance

• Lead critical-talent, succession, leadership-readiness, and capability discussions across the assigned portfolio.
• Provide core Business Partner counsel on talent, performance, employee relations, leadership, team effectiveness, and employee experience.
• Identify systemic performance barriers and connect them to organization, leadership, capability, or work-design solutions.

Integrate delivery and support strategic change

• Connect business needs to the right Workforce & Performance capabilities and coordinate integrated support across specialist teams and Centers of Expertise.
• Lead the cross functional implications of major transformations, integrations, offshoring, sourcing, technology, automation, and AI-enabled changes.
• Establish practical operating rhythms, decision logs, measures, and follow-through so recommendations move into execution.

Lead and develop the team

• Set priorities, standards, and expectations for the Associate HRBP and create a clear path toward increasing ownership and judgment.
• Build repeatable tools, practices, and knowledge that strengthen the broader Workforce Business Partner community.
• Model enterprise thinking, constructive challenge, sound judgment, and disciplined execution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in HR business partnership, workforce strategy, organization design, operating-model transformation, talent, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with senior leaders across complex, interconnected businesses, ideally including Operations, Finance, Technology, or similar functions.
• Strong ability to translate business strategy and operating challenges into practical organization, workforce, work-design, and talent recommendations.
• Experience with significant change, restructuring, sourcing, offshoring, technology adoption, automation, AI, M&A integration, or operating model work.
• Strong business acumen and comfort using workforce, financial, operating, and employee data to inform decisions.
• Experience leading or developing a team, with strong influence, facilitation, executive communication, judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence.
• Operate as a business leader and enterprise partner, not only as an HR functional expert.
• Make work, roles, decisions, workforce capacity, risks, and trade-offs more visible and actionable.
• Build trust through clarity, follow-through, practical judgment, and constructive challenge.

Compensation: The estimated base salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $190,000 annually. Please note that this pay range serves as a general guideline and reflects a broad spectrum of labor markets across the US. While it is uncommon for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the range, compensation decisions are influenced by various factors. At HALO, these include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's work experience, location, education and training, key skills, internal equity, external market data, and broader market and business considerations.

Benefits: At HALO, we offer benefits that support all aspects of your life, helping you find a work-life balance that's right for you. Our comprehensive benefits include nationwide coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance, along with additional Voluntary Benefits. Prepare for your financial future with our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

Application Information: To apply to this opportunity, click the APPLY button at the top right or very bottom of the screen to complete our online application. A resume is optional, so you may choose to upload and have the application prefill with your information. There are 5 sections to complete in total, including General information, Work History, Education, Compliance, and optional demographic questions. Once you have successfully submitted your application, you will receive a submission confirmation email from our system.

Application Deadline: Applications are reviewed and processed only when there is a specific need or opportunity, rather than on a fixed schedule or at a set deadline. Because they are reviewed on an as-needed basis, a job posting will be removed once the position has been filled or is no longer available.