Human Resources Director - Executive Functions & Talent Development / Learning- Remote

Human Resources Director

Are you passionate about developing and executing talent initiatives that build highly effective leaders? Have you been proactive in driving organizations to attain and maintain an inclusive culture where creative ideas are brought forward and turned into solutions to support important customer missions? Then we would love to meet you!

BAE Systems is hiring a Human Resources Director who will support a collection of our C-Suite executives and their functional teams. In this role, the Human Resources Director is responsible for strategizing, planning, organizing, and coordinating all aspects of HR Management, including the implementation of key activities related to succession planning, talent management, benefits, compensation, performance management, and high potential assessment and development. This role will own the HR strategy for a portion of our headquarters functions, identifying solutions and tackling the most pressing talent opportunities and challenges at a strategic level, successfully partnering with functional leaders to create value for the business. This role is pivotal to ensuring the organization's ability to create an inclusive culture, accelerate development for our employees, build people leader capability, forecast and develop our critical skills roadmap and implement solutions that result in a strong retention for our talent.

This role also has responsibility to serve as the Talent, Development & Learning (TD&L) lead for our HQ teams, serving as an expert consultant, trusted advisor and strategic partner to key stakeholders, including senior business and HR leaders. In this capacity, this role will advise on TD&L center of expertise offerings for key programs including employee development, talent reviews, succession planning, performance management and organizational effectiveness.

This position may be fully remote or hybrid with an understanding that travel will likely be required across the US-based BAE Systems footprint.

Responsibilities :

• Serve as a coach, strategic advisor and business partner to the sector senior leadership
• Identify and develop key talent to grow the business, build current and future capability, and achieve long-term business success
• Build relationships with business leaders to offer thought leadership on organizational and people-related strategy and execution
• Design and Implement HR solutions to progress functional people strategies and deliver value to the business
• Understand the business strategy and identify opportunities to increase alignment with the strategy by helping business leaders identify, prioritize and build organizational capabilities, behaviors, structures and processes.
• Diagnose gaps between current and desired organization performance and deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organization redesign, process change, coaching and training
• Analyze workforce trends to model and forecast future labor requirements to support senior leaders in workforce planning and succession management.
• Align performance management and reward strategies to reinforce an environment of dedication and innovation
• Coach senior leaders to improve leadership abilities, relationships among teams / individuals and interpersonal communications, as well as deliver effective performance feedback.
• Partner closely with sector Human Resources colleagues and leadership, as well as colleagues in the center of excellence and others across the company
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders to foster trust and influence key decisions
• Influence leaders to action and understand business strategies
• Translate strategies into an executable plan that will help Sector leadership address key human capital needs that are directly related to the successful delivery of business outcomes and performance
• Serve as a project manager, including strategizing, planning, organizing, and coordinating all aspects of Human Resources
• Serve as a creative problem solver; formulate recommendations using data to clearly demonstrate the value of the solution
• Must be results oriented and resilient, delivering consistent results while exhibiting behaviors in line with BAE culture
• Provide strong people leadership by serving as a direct supervisor to HR manager
• Collaborate closely with HQ stakeholders (business leaders and HRBPs) to advance and balance relevant business and development objectives that support functional strategies
• Represent the HQ functions on the BAE Learning Council
• Lead TD&L initiatives and partner closely with HQ HRBPs to execute TD&L deliverables across all HQ functions
• Partner with HR and business leaders to raise awareness about TD&L offerings and serve as conduit back to the TD&L COE on behalf of the HQ HR team

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range : $135556 - $230444 Please note : This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to : business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. Employee Benefits : At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered : health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and / or job specifics.

About BAE Systems, Inc.

BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a teammaking a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.