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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 director of business relations jobs.
- Five or more years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, or account management
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain executive-level client and partner relationships
- Experience managing cross-functional teams or coordinating with internal stakeholders across departments
- Proficiency with CRM platforms and pipeline reporting tools
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, communications, marketing, or a related field
- Strong contract negotiation skills and familiarity with partnership or vendor agreement structures
Tips for Your Director of Business Relations Job Search
Quantify partnership revenue on your resume
Directors of business relations are evaluated on revenue impact, not activity. Replace phrases like 'managed key accounts' with the dollar value of contracts closed, retained, or expanded. Hiring managers for this role scan for numbers that signal commercial scale.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of business relations 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 growth inflection point
Organizations launching new product lines, entering new markets, or integrating after an acquisition hire directors of business relations most urgently. Filter your search by company news and hiring activity to find openings where your impact will be immediate and visible.
Tailor your resume to the reporting line
A director of business relations reporting to the chief revenue officer needs a different emphasis than one reporting to operations or marketing. Read the job description closely for who owns the role and reframe your resume to match that leader's priorities.
Prepare a portfolio of relationship outcomes
Interviewers for this role go beyond hypotheticals. Bring two or three concrete examples of partnerships you built from first contact to signed agreement, including who the stakeholders were, what objections you overcame, and what the outcome delivered for both sides.
Negotiate scope before accepting the title
Director of business relations roles vary widely in authority. Before accepting an offer, clarify your budget ownership, headcount, and whether you can sign agreements independently. These details determine whether the role is a true director position or a senior individual contributor role.
Director of Business Relations Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of business relationss?
DESORT STAFFING, Enverus, and Highwire are hiring the most director of business relationss right now, with openings concentrated in Florida, Texas, and Colorado, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, financial services firms, and technology companies tend to post the highest volume of openings in this role category.
How many director of business relations jobs are remote?
About 86% of director of business relations openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies by industry and seniority. Roles focused on strategic account oversight and internal partnership coordination tend to be more remote-friendly, while positions requiring regular client site visits or in-person negotiations are more likely to require on-site or hybrid presence.
How do you become a director of business relations?
Most directors of business relations work up through account management, business development, or client success roles before stepping into a director-level position. Building a record of closed partnerships and expanded accounts is essential. Developing executive communication skills, learning to manage cross-functional initiatives, and gaining exposure to contract negotiation all accelerate the path to a director title.
Can you get hired as a director of business relations without direct experience in the role?
Yes, candidates from adjacent backgrounds in sales leadership, strategic consulting, or operations management are regularly hired into director of business relations roles. The key is demonstrating that you've owned external relationships, driven measurable outcomes from them, and worked across internal teams to deliver on commitments. A strong portfolio of relationship outcomes matters more than having held the exact title before.
What does the director of business relations interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen, followed by interviews with the hiring manager and cross-functional stakeholders such as sales, operations, or marketing leadership. Candidates are usually asked to present a case study or walk through a past partnership from initial contact to close. Final rounds often include a meeting with a senior executive or a panel focused on strategic fit and leadership style.
Where can I find and apply to director of business relations jobs?
You can find and apply to director of business relations jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your industry background and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits your experience and goals.
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