HR Business Partner
Cozen O'Connor

Job Description

As an HRBP, you'll be the bridge between talent and success. Your mission? To elevate our administrative and business professional functions by nurturing talent, implementing best practices, and ensuring a harmonious work environment.

What You'll Do:

• Talent Attraction and Cultivation: Collaborate with managers to identify top talent. From sourcing candidates to conducting interviews, you'll be a manager of recruiting for the designated groups and departments.
• Employee Support: Be the friendly face behind HR. Assist managers, employees and teams with change, effective communication and resolving concerns. Answer inquiries, guide employees through policies, and ensure their experience is exceptional.
• Culture Steward: Handle employee relations with finesse. Document interactions, resolve basic issues or conflicts, and contribute to our respectful work environment.
• Performance Coach; work with designated groups and departments to facilitate informal and formal performance management processes.
• Cultivate Engagement though Development: prepare business professionals for career growth by connecting them to learning and skill expansion. Listen to managers on team developmental needs and create plans for change. Co-present topics with the Manager of Professional Development and Engagement.
• Off-boarding: help employees transition by conducting exit interviews, providing knowledge on benefit and retirement options and ensuring tech assets and proprietary information stays secure.
• Tech Mastery: Leverage HRIS tools like Oracle Fusion and OCR to manage recruitment processes and employee lifecycle changes in a timely and seamless manner. Assist in the growth of AI for the Human Resources group's daily operations.

We Seek:

• Knowledge: Understanding human resources in a corporate setting including multistate legal compliance. You are curious and thorough. In times when you do not have answers, you research information.
• Judgement: Discretion, sound decision-making and independent thinking.
• Ownership - You take responsibility for your work, follow through on commitments, and proactively address challenges. You see tasks through to completion and are accountable for delivering high-quality results.
• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to build relationships, manage difficult conversations and build trust across all organizational levels.
• Time Management: You thrive in a fast-paced, deadline driven service oriented role. You know how to prioritize work and how to update people/groups when your attention is elsewhere.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferably in business, HR, social sciences, or a related field
• 7 - 10 years' of progressive experience in Human Resources as a business partner or generalist
• HRCI/SHRM Certification is preferred; if no designation, a willingness to pursue certification
• Experience in law firm or professional services environment is preferred
• Flexibility is required as hours may increase during busy periods and minimal travel may be required
• Experience using an HRIS (Oracle is preferred)
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and dynamic environment where attention to detail, analytical skills, and strong organizational skills are essential
• Outstanding written and verbal communications; ability to professionally interact with attorneys, business professional, and vendors

About Us

Known for its commitment to action and tangible results, Cozen O'Connor has rapidly grown to become one of North America's fastest-growing law firms. Offering full-service expertise in litigation, business law, and government relations, the firm serves a diverse clientele, including global Fortune 500 companies, growing middle-market firms, startups, and high-profile individuals. Established in 1970, Cozen O'Connor has more than 1,000 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions. The firm counsels clients on their most sophisticated legal matters in all areas of the law, including litigation, corporate, and regulatory law. Representing a broad array of leading global corporations and middle market companies, Cozen O'Connor services its clients' needs through 35 offices across two continents. The firm is consistently ranked among the top 100 law firms in America and has received recognition from prestigious legal and business organizations such as Chambers & Partners, The American Lawyer, The Legal 500, and Best Lawyers. Cozen O'Connor is dedicated to excellence and strives to achieve the right results for its clients, no matter how complex or critical the legal challenges may be.

Cozen O'Connor is committed to fostering greater inclusion in the legal profession. We understand the organizational effectiveness that comes from welcoming and valuing differences within the firm, and we know that assembling a team with a breadth of perspectives and experience is necessary to provide the highest quality legal service. We encourage candidates to apply and join us in this effort.

Cozen O'Connor actively welcomes applicants who have previously left the workforce and are looking to return to their careers. Gaps in experience are not penalized.
Cozen O'Connor is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.

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