Director, HRBP (Sales)

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Come join the HRBP team at WD! We are looking for a strategic Director HRBP to partner with executives in our Sales & Marketing organization, reporting to the Vice President, HRBP for SG&A and collaborating closely with current HRBP team members. This role is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA. We come together three days a week to collaborate and connect. In this role, the Director HRBP will serve in a strategic advisory role as an integrated thought partner, directly supporting the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer and his leadership team. This is a critical role, bridging execution to enterprise strategy. In this role, you will be a trusted advisor, talent strategist, and change agent supporting business growth, transformation, and a high-performance culture. Strong business acumen and understanding of a Sales & Marketing organization is essential. Ability to partner across the COEs is a critical component to success in this role. Essential Duties &Responsibilities: • Partner with Executive and senior level business leaders to understand business priorities and translate them into people strategies. • Influence decision-making through data, insights and organizational best practices. • Serve as a trusted advisor on leadership effectiveness, team development and change management. • Partner across workforce planning and organizational design discussions to ensure the right structure, capabilities and talent for the future. • Leverage people analytics to identify trends, risks and opportunities across the organization. • Connect global design process and go-to-market partnerships to practical, scalable people process. • Monitor organizational health metrics and implement action plans in partnership with leaders. • Ensure consistent, high-quality HR delivery across the organization.    Required: • Extensive progressive HR experience, including significant time in a business partnering role supporting Executives and senior leaders • Strategic Partnering Skills:  Proven ability to align people strategies with business objectives, influencing leaders and driving outcomes. • Global Mindset:  Experience supporting international client groups – ability to adapt strategies across geographies and navigating matrixed and global teams. • Executive Presence and Communication:  Exceptional influencing, facilitation and presentation skills; able to engage with senior executives confidently.  • Business Acumen:  Strong business acumen with a solid understanding of Legal and Finance functions, enabling alignment of people strategies with regulatory, risk, compliance, and financial performance objectives..  • Proactive vs. Reactive:  Looks around corners to proactively identify challenges on a global scale, recommends solutions and drives solution to completion; translating work to direct business results. • Prioritization and Execution:  Ability to assess competing business needs, identify what matters most, and focus resources on the highest impact initiatives.  Skilled at balancing strategic priorities with operational demand.  • Team Player: Always willing to roll up their sleeves, does not say “that’s not my job” and collaborates to get results.  Preferred: • Bachelor's Degree in Business or Human Resources or equivalent with Master's degree or relevant certification preferred WD is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and

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