People Partner (HR) - Houston, TX - Empower Pharmacy

Position Summary:

As a People Partner at Empower, you play a crucial role in shaping the success of our teams by fostering strong, productive relationships across all levels of the organization. Your deep understanding of our clients' businesses and their strategic goals allows you to be a trusted advisor, helping to drive productivity, performance, and retention through tailored Human Resources (HR) solutions.

Working closely with department leadership, you will lead efforts to streamline structures, roles, and processes, ensuring they are aligned with our values of people, service, quality, and innovation. By facilitating strategic working sessions, you will help guide our organizational focus and efficiency, translating business strategies into actionable plans that yield tangible results. Your consultative approach will enable you to proactively assess and enhance organizational performance to drive meaningful change.

In this dynamic role, you will coach and develop business leaders, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and growth. Your insights into talent planning, learning and development, and performance management will be critical in building high-performing teams and fostering a positive employee experience. By identifying and closing skills gaps, you will ensure that our workforce is equipped to meet future challenges, supporting Empower's long-term talent strategy and planning.

If you are passionate about organizational development and have a proven track record in HR and talent management, we invite you to apply for the People Partner position and join us on our mission to expand access to quality, affordable medication. Join us in our vision of creating a healthier future!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establishes and maintains an intimate understanding of your clients’ organizations and the business, in the interest of building effective and productive working relationships with internal partners, clients, at all levels of the organization.
• Collaborates with leadership to understand business strategy and goals related to productivity, performance, and retention.
• Plans and leads organizational design projects to streamline and implement new structures, roles and/or processes that create efficiency and support rapidly shifting business demands.
• Proactively assesses business and organizational performance to recommend and drive action through a consultative, “influence without authority” approach.
• Coaches business leaders on HR policies and processes in areas such as talent planning, learning and development, and performance management to promote engagement and a culture of continuous improvement growth and development.
• Provides individualized coaching as needed to help create high performing teams at the leadership level.
• Creates and implements appropriate change management plans as required by the business.
• Assesses employee training and development needs based on business strategy to close gaps between current and future skills and abilities, systematically evaluating organizational performance, defining talent gaps, and proposing HR solutions that support client strategic objectives.
• Plans and facilitates working sessions to develop business strategies that enhance organizational focus, efficiency, and business results, while supporting the execution of long-term talent strategies within client groups to ensure realization.
• Cultivates and drives lifecycle approach to talent management focused on forecasting, staffing, on-boarding, development, performance management, career/succession planning, talent movement and retention, using rigorous workforce analytics and insights.
• Uses understanding of individual and organizational dynamics to facilitate talent movement into and throughout the organization.
• Acts as an organizational development consultant; provides subject matter expertise and guidance around enterprise organizational design, including new businesses acquired through merger and acquisition activities.
• Partners with the People Experience team to solve challenges and develop relevant solutions, programs, polices, for the organization in alignment with the enterprise strategy.
• Maintains feedback loop between the business and HR to improve existing services, programs, tools, processes, and policies.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and listen. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices.  The employee is regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Working knowledge of core HR disciplines with emphasis on organizational effectiveness, leader effectiveness, change management, organizational design and development, and strategic workforce planning.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel.
• Strategic thinker and executor that possesses qualities that inspire confidence and trust across multiple levels.
• Ability to work in an entrepreneurial atmosphere that requires you to contribute to getting the job done with a hands-on approach and to be comfortable in a fast paced, activity-driven environment.

 

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus: Ability to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer centric solutions.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources effectively and efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quality, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments and objectives.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match shifting demands of different situations.
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

 

Values

• People: Our people define who we are as a company, and we believe that understanding and addressing the needs of our team, clients, and community is fundamental to fostering a culture of support and growth.
• Quality: Quality stands at the core of our mission, reflecting our commitment to excellence in every medication we produce.
• Service: We are here to serve others. Every interaction with our patients, providers, employees and other stakeholders comes from a place of service.
• Innovation: By continuously exploring new methodologies and embracing technology, we ensure that every solution we offer is at the forefront of pharmaceutical care.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR Management, Business Administration, or a similar field from an accredited four-year college is required.
• A minimum of 8 years of HR experience as an HR business partner with an emphasis on human capital planning and strategic workforce development.
• Society for Human Resource Management, Certified Professional certification preferred.

Benefits:

• No-Cost Medication: Get your prescribed compounded medications at no cost, ensuring your health without the financial burden.
• Onsite Health & Wellness – IV Therapy Drips: Rejuvenate with complimentary onsite IV Therapy drips, enhancing your well-being and energy levels.
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Options: Choose from three medical plans tailored to your needs, plus options for dental and vision coverage for you and your family.
• Telehealth visits: Access board-certified Doctors anytime, anywhere for you and your family.
• Paid & Volunteer Time Off: Enjoy paid time off for personal pursuits and contribute to causes you care about with volunteer time off.
• Paid Holidays (8 scheduled; 2 floating): Celebrate with eight scheduled holidays and two floating holidays, giving you flexibility and time for personal traditions.
• Life & AD&D Coverage: Secure your and your family's financial future with life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
• FSA (Flexible Spending Account): Manage healthcare expenses smartly with pre-tax dollars in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• 401K Dollar-for-Dollar Up to 4%: Invest in your future with our 401K plan, featuring a dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
• Company Paid Long-Term Disability: Provided at no cost, which replaces 60% of your income if you become disabled for a long period of time.
• Flexible Schedules: Balance work and life seamlessly with our flexible scheduling options.
• Rewards & Recognition Program: Your hard work doesn't go unnoticed – enjoy rewards and recognition beyond your paycheck.

 

Additional Voluntary Benefits

• Accident Insurance: Pays a lump sum benefit to help cover expenses following an accidental injury.
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance: Enhance your peace of mind with supplemental hospital insurance for unexpected stays.
• Critical Illness: Protect your finances from the expenses of a serious health issue.
• Short-Term Disability: Protect your income during illness or injury with short-term disability coverage.
• Supplemental Life & AD&D: Add an extra layer of financial protection for you and your loved ones with supplemental life and AD&D coverage.
• Legal Services: Access professional legal assistance to address concerns confidently.
• Identity Theft Protection: Safeguard your identity and finances with our identity theft protection benefit.
• Pet Insurance: Care for your furry family members with our pet insurance coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counseling and support services for a holistic approach to your well-being.