Senior Human Capital Business Partner - Actuarial, NY/Chicago

About the role

The Senior Human Capital (HC) Business Partner advises Oliver Wyman Actuarial's Property & Casualty and Life practices as a senior strategic advisor embedded with practice leadership. Acting as a key link between the practices and the HC team, the role brings practice insight, needs and risks back to HC so it can give timely, aligned and commercially grounded support. It works closely with the Director of HC to turn firm-wide HC strategy, talent priorities and people initiatives into practice-level action. This is a hybrid role with an office presence three days per week, with no option to be fully remote.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the go-to HC partner to the Property & Casualty and Life practice leadership teams and a trusted advisor to senior leaders, translating business strategy into people priorities.
• Take part in practice leadership discussions and anticipate organizational challenges, partnering with the Director of HC and other HC colleagues on solutions.
• Lead and support change initiatives, including change management plans, stakeholder engagement and communications, while protecting colleague engagement and culture.
• Support workforce planning, leadership development and talent reviews, coach leaders on people management and leadership, and use workforce analytics dashboards to inform decisions.
• Partner with Talent Development on performance management, including mid-year and year-end processes, and coach leaders on performance decisions.
• Work with Employee Relations on sensitive matters and investigations, and with Recruiting to align hiring plans with business needs.
• Analyze engagement survey results and pulse survey feedback, monitor retention risks and organizational health indicators, and plan actions to improve colleague experience and belonging.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of HC processes, lead by example in the use of AI in HC, and oversee, coach and support HC Coordinators and other shared HC colleagues.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of progressive human resources experience.
• Minimum 5 years of Human Resources Business Partner or comparable business-facing Human Capital experience.