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Purpose:
The AVP, HR Business Partner serves as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to senior leaders across multiple business units at Athene. This role combines strategic insight, organizational expertise, and influence to drive business outcomes through people. The role advises executive leaders, shaping organizational design, and aligning workforce strategies with business priorities.Accountabilities:
Strategic Consulting: Advise leaders to align people strategies with business goals and culture. Use workforce data and insights to guide decisions on structure, talent, and capability needs.
Organizational Design & Effectiveness: Lead organization design and change initiatives that enable long-term success. Partner with leaders to improve engagement, leadership effectiveness, and team performance.
Talent & Performance Strategy: Drive talent and succession planning, performance calibration, and leadership development in coordination with HR Centers of Expertise. Ensure alignment between talent actions and business priorities.
HR Coordination & Integration: Champion consistency in HR processes and collaboration across HRBPs and COEs. Leverage HR systems and analytics to improve insights, decisions, and execution. Navigating and influencing across complex and matrixed organizational structures.
Culture & Engagement: Translate engagement insights into targeted action plans that strengthen accountability, collaboration, and trust across teams.
Qualifications and Experience:
- 8+ years of progressive HR business partnership or HR leadership experience.
- Experience advising senior executives on organizational design, transformation, and workforce planning.
- Proven success influencing strategy and navigating complex, matrixed environments.
- Strategic Acumen: Ability to connect business priorities with long-term people strategies.
- Influence: Strong executive presence and communication; capable of challenging constructively.
- Analytical Thinking: Skilled in using data to drive insights and inform decisions.
- Change Leadership: Demonstrated ability to guide cultural or structural transformation.
- Collaboration: Builds strong cross-functional relationships and drives alignment across HR.
- Integrity & Judgment: Deep understanding of HR compliance, ethics, and confidentiality.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field required.
- Advanced degree or HR certification (e.g., SHRM-SCP) preferred.
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What We Do
Athene, through its subsidiaries, is a leading retirement services company that issues, reinsures and acquires retirement savings products designed for the increasing number of individuals and institutions seeking to fund retirement needs. The products offered by Athene include:
• Retail fixed, fixed indexed and registered index-linked annuity products;
• Reinsurance arrangements with third-party annuity providers; and
• Institutional products, such as funding agreements and group annuity contracts related to pension risk transfers.
Athene's subsidiaries include Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company, a Delaware-domiciled insurance company, Athene Annuity and Life Company, an Iowa-domiciled insurance company, Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York, a New York-domiciled insurance company, Athene Securities, LLC, an Iowa-domiciled registered broker-dealer (member FINRA), and Athene Life Re Ltd., a Bermuda-domiciled reinsurer.
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The financial industry is ripe for change and Athene is leading the way. We’re determined to make retirement easier for you and other Americans by harnessing our passion, smarts and relentless spirit.
Learn how to become an Athene financial professional at www.athene.com/contact.
If you love a challenge and are driven to succeed, then Athene is your kind of company.
