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 that requires flexibility to different time zones

Compensation

The starting salary range for this role is $85,000 - $100,000. Salary is based on several factors including job related knowledge and skill set, depth of experience, certifications and/or degrees.