Chief hr partner health

Full job description

At Bon Secours Mercy Health, we are dedicated to continually improving health care quality, safety and cost effectiveness. Our hospitals, care sites and clinicians are recognized for clinical and operational excellence.

The System Director, HR Strategic Partner ensures leadership awareness and local change management approach of standard HR program delivery and initiatives throughout the year. Partners with HR Centers of Excellence strategic solutions on client specific work. With an agile approach to our work, this role develops and leads HR strategic solutions for major system-wide initiatives with $10M+ in impact, the largest projects impacting (2,000+) associates, M&A implementation lead for a project, subsidiary and segmentation strategy for business units. Partners with clients to develop org design solutions and works with the Talent Management team on talent to value strategy for placement decisions in OD work and supports level 3 (most complex) change projects for the ministry. Clients include senior leaders for the organization, Group and Market leaders and Innovation and subsidiary leaders. Responsible for their own portfolio of work and provides leadership, coaching and mentoring of director and associate level strategic partners.

Essential Job Functions

• HRSP for assigned market, medical group, shared services and innovations clients.
• Drives for great outcomes and results by being the strategic HR advisor to assigned leadership team and partners with HR COEs on strategic solutions for clients.
• Partners with Senior level clients within the ministry consulting on large scale projects, developing change management and organizational design approach, HR leadership and the “people lens” to work.
• Partners with HR COEs on strategic solutions for clients through HR program delivery into the local market and responsible for creating a successful change approach for the market and leadership teams.
• Advises COEs on change approach.
• HR Leader assigned to M&A activities including acquisitions/divestitures or new subsidiary stand-up as well and market expansion.
• Strategic Solutions are focused on Turnover Mitigation and retention work, work with the Workforce planning COE on assignments focused on market workforce strategies.
• Other strategic solutions include operating model development, org design, change management, merger and acquisition from due diligence to implementation, workforce transitions, market segmentation.
• Leads system-wide projects and initiatives: creating organizational design, identifying appropriate interventions and strategic solutions, leading change management planning efforts on assigned projects with initiative owner, developing communication plans on change management work with comms partners and leadership, anticipating change management needs and plans for mitigating barriers, uses BSMH HR standard tool kits to work with clients.
• Works with HR executives and subject matter experts on aligning approach for a project.
• Partners with and leads the HR M&A Project Manager through project implementation.
• Responsible for meeting the success metrics and AXP results for the HR components of their work and assigned project.
• Direct reports include Director level and associate level HR Strategic Partners
• Builds trust and great relationships with leadership teams.
• Represents the HR brand positively.

Employment Qualifications

• Required Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree. Master's Degree preferred
• SMRM-CP or SHRM-SP preferred
• Required Minimum Years of Experience: 7 years in Business/Healthcare with progressive leadership responsibility. 10+ years preferred.
• Advanced use of Microsoft applications
• Data and information interpretation
• Leverage online tools for work
• Interpret business context and understand business operations
• Detailed tracking
• Create organizational design work
• Create, document and visually convey strategy
• Interpreting information to make recommendations
• Influencing skills and buy-in creation
• Critical Thinking
• Teamwork
• Leadership
• Root cause identification
• Relationship building and partnership at all levels of the organization
• Executive level communication skills
• Analyze business challenges and create solutions

Many of our opportunities reward* your hard work with:


Comprehensive, affordable medical, dental and vision plans
Prescription drug coverage
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance w/AD&D
Employer contributions to retirement savings plan when eligible
Paid time off
Educational Assistance
And much more

• Benefits offerings vary according to employment status

All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you'd like to view a copy of the affirmative action plan or policy statement for Mercy Health – Youngstown, Ohio or Bon Secours – Franklin, Virginia; Petersburg, Virginia; and Emporia, Virginia, which are Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employers, please email . If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact The Talent Acquisition Team at