Senior People Business Partner

Job Description
Turnitin is seeking to hire a Senior People Business Partner to join our Global People Team. The People Team enables Turnitin to unleash the full potential of ‘One Team’ and culture which, in turn, enables it to deliver its business strategy and purpose.
The People Team is split into four verticals:
Global People Partners
Centers of Excellence (COEs)
People Services / HR Shared Services
People Strategy &
Operations (PS&
O)
This role will report to the Sr Dir, Americas People Partnerships and serve as the Senior People Business Partner for a part of our Go To Market Team. The incumbent will primarily partner with designated Senior Leadership Team members as their direct business partner, but will interact with several senior leaders across the company to provide strategy and thought leadership related to Employee Relations, Engagement, Inclusion and Acquisition activities. The incumbent will also have extensive knowledge of US employment law, employee relations, strong business acumen, the ability to handle ambiguity and problem solve with a solutions based, growth mindset focus.
Primarily, they will:
Develop open and enduring stakeholder relationships with Turnitin Leaders to assist the development and delivery of the People Strategyand link it operationally to business needs, providing personal coaching and guidance/development for Leaders and their team.
Provide management information and summaries of the employee engagement and relations landscape - monthly and quarterly. Conducts reviews and course-corrects, as is needed.
Execute on annual and bi-annual plans/OKRs using COE support with the team to ensure continuous improvements are realized in relation to key metrics like Turnover, Retention, Diversity, etc.
Advise Turnitin Leaders on effective organizational design and development to achieve overall Turnitin operational outcomes.
Work closely with Stakeholders, the Talent Acquisition Team to forecast talent needs and to ensure that a pipeline of exceptional talent is flowing into the organization which meets forecasted needs.
Be able to research best practices from the outside in to mature and sustain key people practices within Turnitin.
Support and backup the entire Americas people team as and when needed.
Be familiar with and highly capable at driving and sustaining change while ensuring processes are documented and automated as applicable while engaging COE and other key partners.
Be able to translate information into data to support decision making.
Focus on process improvement to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the region and overall People Team.
Champion the Company Values and ‘All In’ Cultural Norms, - proactively seeking out occasions and opportunities to highlight Values oriented behaviors and actions and socializing these.
In close partnership with Turnitin Leaders/Communications and wider People Team members, support the operational strategy for employee engagement and relations for client group(s).
Drive positive outcomes toward the Company’s DEI and Social Impact programs, working with stakeholders to ensure all relevant targets and goals are achieved.
Be a proactive and personally accountable communicator ensuring transparent and open flow of information up, down and sideways.
Work closely with Stakeholders, the Talent Development &
Culture Team to harnessthe L&
D opportunities and solutions needed to drive continued improvement and motivation.