People Business Partner (HR)
Requirements
The People Business Partner is a strategic and hands-on partner to managers across Operations, Clinical, and Laboratory teams. This role aligns people practices with business needs while supporting a consistent, compliant, and high-quality employee experience. The People Business Partner provides support across the employee lifecycle, including workforce planning, employee relations, policy interpretation and performance management, and offboarding. As a trusted partner to the business, this role helps strengthen engagement, accountability, organizational effectiveness, and workplace culture. Success in this role requires sound judgment, strong follow-through, comfort navigating sensitive employee matters, and the ability to balance empathy with consistency and accountability.
What You’ll Do:
Serve as a first point of contact for employee relations matters, and policy questions.
Assist managers with performance management, coaching, and workplace concerns.
Support managers and supervisors on the preparation of corrective actions, coaching plans, and termination of documentation and paperwork.
Collaborate with operations leaders to support business objectives and workforce planning.
Foster a positive, inclusive, and engaging work environment.
Ensure compliance with federal, state and local employment laws.
Assist with benefits enrollment, leave administration, administration and workers’ compensation processes.
Support performance review processes and employee development initiatives.
Partner with People Team colleagues and Talent Team colleagues to ensure consistency in People Team programs and practices.
Conduct and document ADA interactive process meetings for reasonable accommodations.
Maintain working knowledge of employee labor law, including but not limited to: leave compliance, wage and hour, meal and rest break laws and required postings.
Partner with external employment counsel on employment-related risk management.
Support proper FLSA classification and wage compliance.
Maintain compliant personnel files, HRIS data accuracy, and confidentiality protocols.
Process employment status changes including promotions, transfers, and terminations.
Assist with drafting, revising and implementing company policies and employee handbooks with the People Team leaders and legal support.
Participate in People Team projects, audits, and process improvements.
Qualifications:
2-3 years of HR generalist, experience required.
Experience supporting multi-site or multi-state operations
Knowledge of wage and hour laws, leave management, and employee relations investigations
Experience working with HRIS systems (ADP or similar platforms preferred).
Experience supporting operations, clinical and / or lab teams high desirable.
Working knowledge of HR processes across the employee lifecycle.
Exceptional attention to detail and data accuracy.
Excellent organizational, problem solving, and time management skills.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a service-oriented mindset.
Ability to manage sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
Employment Type
This is a full-time exempt hybrid position based in New York metro area that requires flexibility to different time zones
Compensation
The starting salary range for this role is $90,000 - $100,000. Salary is based on several factors including job related knowledge and skill set, depth of experience, certifications and/or degrees.