Director, People Business Partner (Gurgaon)

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Director, People Business Partner (Gurgaon)

Introduction to team

Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including Employee Communications, Finance, Legal, People Team, Inclusion and Diversity, and Global Social Impact and Sustainability

People Business Partners orchestrate the transformation of our talent agenda at Expedia Group. We are currently looking for a Director, People Business Partner to lead the people agenda within our Product & Technology division at Expedia Group. This role specifically will focus on executing the business partner strategy for India office. The role will support the leaders within the organization for execution of business delivery in addition to the people agenda.

In this role, you will:

• Talent Agenda: Work closely with People Business Partner peers and global People team to ensure client group is successful in achieving their goals. This includes partnering with the communities of expertise to define the approach and implementation plan for high performing talent identification, succession planning, focus on future oriented organizational capabilities. You will be the voice of the business strategy to the Expedia Group People team and voice of the people strategy to business teams.
• Develop & Lead: Drive high performance and supportive culture within the team that you support.
• Organization Culture: Embedding Expedia Group Culture and Enterprise Leader behaviors across the business.
• Organization Effectiveness and Leadership Coaching: Use effective strategies that enable the organization to thrive through periods of change and provide coaching that helps leaders develop and grow.
• People Team: Provide support to your peers within our profession in India to support the culture and community in that location within the People team.
• Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with the executive leaders to defines the overall talent and business strategy, anticipating long-term people needs and translating business plans into HR program objectives. Drive informed decision-making using data to identify trends, resolve root causes of issues, and develop effective solutions.
• Active engagement as part of a high performing People Pod team, finding ways to help contribute to each other's success.

Experience and qualifications:

• Strategic People business partner, experienced in designing end-to end talent agenda, organizational design & development, delivery of global transformation programs.
• Passionate in the People Business Partner space.
• An analytical thinker and a strategic problem-solver, with the drive to cut through complexity and turn high-level business requirements and opportunities into specific initiatives.
• Positive attitude and solutions oriented.
• Biased to action, being familiar with methods and approaches needed to get things done in a collaborative, lean and fast paced environment, responding effectively and simply to sophisticated and ambiguous problems and situations.
• Highly organized with operational excellence. Able to execute a plan using data to consult and inform along the way and make sound prioritization decisions.
• 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.

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