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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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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in partner relations manager jobs.
- Three or more years of experience in partner management, channel sales, or strategic alliances
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage relationships with external partner organizations
- Proficiency with CRM platforms and partner relationship management tools
- Strong communication and presentation skills for executive-level stakeholder engagement
- Experience developing joint go-to-market plans, co-sell motions, or partner enablement programs
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field
Tips for Your Partner Relations Manager Job Search
Quantify your partnership revenue impact
Hiring managers for partner relations manager roles want to see numbers, not duties. Replace phrases like 'managed partner accounts' with the revenue generated, the number of partners onboarded, or the pipeline growth your work drove in a specific period.
Tailor applications to partner tier focus
Some partner relations manager openings focus on enterprise or strategic accounts, others on reseller or affiliate ecosystems. Read each job description carefully and mirror its language around the partner tier you are targeting, since generic applications rarely move past screening.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists partner relations manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a partner business case for interviews
Many partner relations manager interviews include a scenario or case exercise where you must propose a go-to-market plan with a hypothetical partner. Prepare a template in advance that covers partner fit criteria, co-sell motions, enablement needs, and success metrics so you can adapt it quickly.
Highlight cross-functional coordination experience
Partner relations managers work across sales, legal, product, and marketing teams daily. Your resume should name the specific internal teams you coordinated with and what that collaboration produced, since employers want evidence you can operate without a reporting line over other groups.
Negotiate on scope, not just compensation
When evaluating an offer, ask how the partner portfolio is structured, whether you inherit active accounts or build from zero, and what internal support exists for enablement. These factors affect your ramp time and your ability to hit targets, so clarifying them before you accept is essential.
Partner Relations Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most partner relations managers?
NIVA Health, Radiology Partners, and AXIOM are hiring the most partner relations managers right now, with openings concentrated in California, Illinois, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Technology and financial services companies tend to post the highest volume of these roles at any given time.
How many partner relations manager jobs are remote?
About 57% of partner relations manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how much of this work happens over video calls and digital collaboration tools. Roles focused on strategic alliances and ecosystem development tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while those tied to field-based or regional partner networks often require some in-person presence.
How do you become a partner relations manager?
Start by building experience in a customer-facing role such as account management, business development, or inside sales, since partner relations work draws heavily on those skills. From there, seek out projects that involve working with external vendors, resellers, or integration partners. Develop familiarity with CRM and partner portal tools, and practice communicating ROI and joint business planning concepts, which are central to most partner relations manager interviews.
Can you get a partner relations manager job with little experience?
Yes, though you will likely need to target associate or partner operations titles first rather than applying directly to manager-level roles. Employers hiring early-career candidates in this area prioritize strong interpersonal skills, attention to detail in managing complex stakeholder relationships, and any evidence you have worked across team boundaries. Internships or project work in account management, vendor relations, or channel support all count as relevant experience.
What does the partner relations manager interview process look like?
Most partner relations manager interview processes include a recruiter screen, one or two panel interviews with the hiring manager and cross-functional partners such as sales or product, and a practical exercise such as a partner business case or a mock partner call. Interviewers typically probe for how you handle partner escalations, how you measure partner success, and how you align partner activities to internal revenue goals.
Where can I find and apply to partner relations manager jobs?
You can find and apply to partner relations manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level and industry focus, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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