Sr Manager, People Partner

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Senior Manager, HR Business Partner

What you'll do:

• Talent Strategy: Collaborate with global People team partners and business leaders to ensure the success of client groups through strategic talent initiatives. Key areas include identifying high-potential talent, driving succession planning, and building future-focused organizational capabilities.

• Organizational Effectiveness & Leadership Coaching: Implement strategies that enable the organization to navigate and thrive through change. Provide coaching and development support to leaders to strengthen their effectiveness and accelerate growth.

• Strategic Business Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to the business by leveraging data-driven insights to identify trends, diagnose root causes of challenges, and co-create effective, sustainable solutions that support business goals.

• Lead organizational structure analysis and design, identifying more effective structures and governance models to align with strategic goals.

• Define and implement organizational principles and health objectives, offering strategic insights to optimize performance.

• Design tools (e.g., surveys) to measure organizational effectiveness and assess issues related to structure, talent, and performance.

• Develop and implement programs to improve employee engagement, management capabilities, and leadership development.

• Leverage a deep understanding of business operations and challenges to propose tailored solutions that support organizational objectives.

• Facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders to co-create practical and impactful solutions.

• Apply systems thinking to enhance organizational efficiency, recommending improvements across policies, processes, and structures.

• Evaluate the long-term financial and operational impact of proposed solutions to support sustainable business outcomes.

• Serve as a key resource for HR policies and procedures, guiding and educating managers and senior leaders to promote understanding and compliance.

• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) and business leaders to design and implement HR programs, ensuring ongoing relevance and effectiveness.

• Provide recommendations on HR structures, tools, and resources to support business needs and enhance organizational capability.

• Apply strong data analysis skills and business acumen to inform decisions related to leadership, structure, and talent development.

• Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards in the review and execution of organizational practices.

Who you are:

• 8+ years’ relevant experience

• Strategic people business partner, experienced in designing end-to end talent agenda, organizational development, delivery of global transformation programs

• Analytical thinking and strategic problem-solving skills, with the drive to cut. through complexity and turn high-level business requirements and opportunities into specific initiatives

• Comfortable using advanced executive coaching techniques to make recommendations across opposing and equally critical business needs

• Natural bar-raiser: curious and passionate about the business context and leadership growth, builds strong relationship by being an inspiring and approachable leader

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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