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Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Director | HR Business Partners, Employee & Labor Relations
- Location: Fully on-site in Green Bay or La Crosse, WI
Emplify Health is seeking a strategic and collaborative leader to serve as Director, HR Business Partners, Employee and Labor Relations. This role is responsible for aligning human capital strategies with organizational goals while strengthening employee and labor relations across the enterprise. The ideal candidate brings deep HR leadership experience, strong business acumen, and the ability to build trusted partnerships with leaders at all levels.
This leader will guide the HR Business Partner and Employee and Labor Relations team, ensuring the right structure, skills, and support are in place to deliver high-impact service. The Director will work closely with HR Centers of Excellence and operational leaders to address complex people issues, improve engagement and retention, reduce risk, and support a healthy, high-performing culture.
Position Summary
The Director, HR Business Partners, Employee and Labor Relations is a strategic partner accountable for integrating human capital strategies with business objectives. This role proactively assesses organizational effectiveness and talent needs using key metrics, industry trends, and external best practices. The Director also collaborates closely with HR Centers of Excellence to leverage enterprise and regional solutions that support business results.
What you'll do:
- Lead the HR Business Partner and Employee and Labor Relations team across the enterprise, providing knowledgeable guidance and direction
- Ensure team members have the skills, tools, and support needed to succeed, while mentoring and developing staff
- Partner with leadership to develop and implement workforce strategies that support the organization’s mission, vision, and goals
- Promote employee engagement, belonging, and retention through thoughtful HR strategies and leadership support
- Ensure consistent adoption of approved strategies and policies across departments and levels of the organization
- Consult with leaders to provide partnership, guidance, and support for strategic planning and alignment
- Stay informed on trends, best practices, and updates in HR, employee relations, and labor relations
- Participate in forecasting, staffing, onboarding, development, performance management, and succession planning
- Assist with escalated items within the Service Delivery Center
- Mitigate legal risk through proactive training, education, clear processes, and effective handling of employee concerns and investigations
- Maintain current knowledge of relevant laws and regulations and advise leaders on HR-related legal and regulatory matters
- Develop and implement policies and processes related to employee relations, legal compliance, and recordkeeping
- Analyze HR data and report on key metrics to support strategic planning
- Conduct data collection and research to identify gaps, assess organizational performance, and recommend solutions aligned with organizational goals
What you'll nee d:
Education
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related field
- Preferred: Master’s degree in administration or business administration (MBA)
Experience
- Required: 7 to 10 years of HR experience
- Preferred: Operational HR experience and strong business collaboration experience
- Ideal background includes leadership experience in HR or healthcare, such as manager or director-level responsibility
Certification/Registration/Licensure
- None required
Core Leadership Expectations
- Organizational Strategy and Implementation: Recognizes market trends, assesses impact on the area of responsibility, contributes to strategic plans, and ensures alignment and communication
- Fiscal Management: Uses established processes to support accountability, effective operations, and resource management
- Human Resource Management: Selects, develops, motivates, manages, and retains a high-performing team
- Excellence in Service and Quality: Supports quality patient care, safety, patient experience, and customer service through continuous improvement
- Organizational Leadership: Leads through collaboration, supports enterprise initiatives, and models strong partnership across the organization
- Maintains accountability for regulatory requirements
- Serves as a liaison to the community
- Performs additional duties as assigned by the department
Why Emplify Health?
- Benefits Package : We offer a comprehensive benefits package that varies based on your location. To learn more about the specific benefits available in your area, please inquire with the recruiter during the application process.
- Remote Work Opportunity: This position is eligible for hybrid work. However, candidates must be residents of Wisconsin (WI), Iowa (IA), Michigan (MI), or Minnesota (MN) at the time of hire. Candidates will ideally live within a reasonable driving distance to La Crosse or Green Bay, WI.
I f you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.
We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Love + medicine is who we are, it's what we do, it's why people want to work here. If you’re looking for a job to love, apply today.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Director | HR Business Partners, Employee & Labor Relations
- Location: Fully on-site in Green Bay or La Crosse, WI
Emplify Health is seeking a strategic and collaborative leader to serve as Director, HR Business Partners, Employee and Labor Relations. This role is responsible for aligning human capital strategies with organizational goals while strengthening employee and labor relations across the enterprise. The ideal candidate brings deep HR leadership experience, strong business acumen, and the ability to build trusted partnerships with leaders at all levels.
This leader will guide the HR Business Partner and Employee and Labor Relations team, ensuring the right structure, skills, and support are in place to deliver high-impact service. The Director will work closely with HR Centers of Excellence and operational leaders to address complex people issues, improve engagement and retention, reduce risk, and support a healthy, high-performing culture.
Position Summary
The Director, HR Business Partners, Employee and Labor Relations is a strategic partner accountable for integrating human capital strategies with business objectives. This role proactively assesses organizational effectiveness and talent needs using key metrics, industry trends, and external best practices. The Director also collaborates closely with HR Centers of Excellence to leverage enterprise and regional solutions that support business results.
What you'll do:
- Lead the HR Business Partner and Employee and Labor Relations team across the enterprise, providing knowledgeable guidance and direction
- Ensure team members have the skills, tools, and support needed to succeed, while mentoring and developing staff
- Partner with leadership to develop and implement workforce strategies that support the organization’s mission, vision, and goals
- Promote employee engagement, belonging, and retention through thoughtful HR strategies and leadership support
- Ensure consistent adoption of approved strategies and policies across departments and levels of the organization
- Consult with leaders to provide partnership, guidance, and support for strategic planning and alignment
- Stay informed on trends, best practices, and updates in HR, employee relations, and labor relations
- Participate in forecasting, staffing, onboarding, development, performance management, and succession planning
- Assist with escalated items within the Service Delivery Center
- Mitigate legal risk through proactive training, education, clear processes, and effective handling of employee concerns and investigations
- Maintain current knowledge of relevant laws and regulations and advise leaders on HR-related legal and regulatory matters
- Develop and implement policies and processes related to employee relations, legal compliance, and recordkeeping
- Analyze HR data and report on key metrics to support strategic planning
- Conduct data collection and research to identify gaps, assess organizational performance, and recommend solutions aligned with organizational goals
What you'll nee d:
Education
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related field
- Preferred: Master’s degree in administration or business administration (MBA)
Experience
- Required: 7 to 10 years of HR experience
- Preferred: Operational HR experience and strong business collaboration experience
- Ideal background includes leadership experience in HR or healthcare, such as manager or director-level responsibility
Certification/Registration/Licensure
- None required
Core Leadership Expectations
- Organizational Strategy and Implementation: Recognizes market trends, assesses impact on the area of responsibility, contributes to strategic plans, and ensures alignment and communication
- Fiscal Management: Uses established processes to support accountability, effective operations, and resource management
- Human Resource Management: Selects, develops, motivates, manages, and retains a high-performing team
- Excellence in Service and Quality: Supports quality patient care, safety, patient experience, and customer service through continuous improvement
- Organizational Leadership: Leads through collaboration, supports enterprise initiatives, and models strong partnership across the organization
- Maintains accountability for regulatory requirements
- Serves as a liaison to the community
- Performs additional duties as assigned by the department
Why Emplify Health?
- Benefits Package : We offer a comprehensive benefits package that varies based on your location. To learn more about the specific benefits available in your area, please inquire with the recruiter during the application process.
- Remote Work Opportunity: This position is eligible for hybrid work. However, candidates must be residents of Wisconsin (WI), Iowa (IA), Michigan (MI), or Minnesota (MN) at the time of hire. Candidates will ideally live within a reasonable driving distance to La Crosse or Green Bay, WI.
I f you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.
We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Who's Hiring
- DESORT STAFFING18
- Enverus5
- Highwire5
- Relief Mental Health3
- Emplify Health2
Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance
- Science & Research
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in business relations specialist jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in business, communications, marketing, or a related field
- Three or more years of experience in account management, partnerships, or client relations
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders
- Proficiency with CRM platforms and pipeline or activity reporting tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive-level audiences
- Experience negotiating contracts, service agreements, or partnership terms
Tips for Your Business Relations Specialist Job Search
Tailor your resume to each sector
Business relations work looks different in logistics versus healthcare. Pull language directly from each job posting and reflect the industry's terminology, whether that's vendor contracts, payer negotiations, or channel partnerships, so your resume signals genuine fit.
Quantify relationship outcomes, not tasks
Hiring managers for this role care about what your relationships produced. Replace phrases like 'managed accounts' with outcomes: retention rates improved, contract renewals secured, or escalations resolved before they reached leadership.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists business relations specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies at a partnership inflection point
Organizations launching a new channel program, entering a new vertical, or recovering from a major client loss hire business relations specialists urgently. Filtering for companies in growth or restructuring phases puts your application in front of teams with real urgency.
Prepare a stakeholder scenario for interviews
Interviewers for this role almost always ask you to walk through a time you managed a difficult external relationship. Have a specific example ready that covers the tension, your approach, and the measurable resolution, not just that everything worked out.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Business relations roles vary widely in whether you own contracts, manage only the relationship layer, or carry a revenue number. Clarify the scope and decision-making authority before discussing compensation so you're evaluating the actual role, not a title.
Business Relations Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most business relations specialists?
The most active employers for business relations specialists right now are DESORT STAFFING, Enverus, and Highwire, and the most openings are in Florida, Texas, and Colorado, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Industries with consistent demand include financial services, healthcare systems, and technology distribution.
How many business relations specialist jobs are remote?
About 86% of business relations specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies by function. Roles focused on strategic partnerships and vendor management tend to have the highest remote availability, while positions requiring regular on-site client visits or facility coordination are more commonly in-person.
How do you become a business relations specialist?
Most business relations specialists start in customer service, inside sales, or account coordinator roles where they build direct experience managing external relationships. From there, taking on contract renewals, escalation handling, or cross-functional projects demonstrates the stakeholder skills employers want. A bachelor's degree in business or communications strengthens your candidacy, and experience with CRM tools is expected in most hiring processes.
Can you get hired as a business relations specialist with little experience?
Entry-level business relations specialist roles do exist, particularly at companies that run structured associate or coordinator programs. Emphasize any experience managing external contacts, whether in retail, hospitality, nonprofit work, or internships, and be specific about outcomes. Roles at mid-size companies or in industries with high client volume, like insurance or logistics, often have more flexibility on years of experience than large enterprise employers.
What does the business relations specialist interview process look like?
Most hiring processes for this role include an initial phone or video screen focused on your background and relationship management style, followed by a panel or hiring manager interview that uses behavioral questions about stakeholder scenarios. Some employers add a case exercise where you outline how you would handle a specific partner or client situation. Final rounds often involve meeting cross-functional partners whose teams you would work alongside.
Where can I find and apply to business relations specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to business relations specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your background and location preferences, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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