Cozen O’Connor, a distinguished AmLaw 100 firm, invites you to join our growing Human Resource team as a Human Resources Business Partner. This role is based in Philadelphia and is eligible for a hybrid work schedule of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

Overview:

As an HRBP, you’ll be the bridge between talent and success. Your mission? To elevate our administrative and business professional functions by nurturing talent, implementing best practices, and ensuring a harmonious work environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Talent Attraction and Cultivation: Collaborate with managers to identify top talent. From sourcing candidates to conducting interviews, you’ll be a manager of recruiting for the designated groups and departments.
• Employee Support: Be the friendly face behind HR. Assist managers, employees and teams with change, effective communication and resolving concerns. Answer inquiries, guide employees through policies, and ensure their experience is exceptional.
• Culture Steward: Handle employee relations with finesse. Document interactions, resolve basic issues or conflicts, and contribute to our respectful work environment.
• Performance Coach; work with designated groups and departments to facilitate informal and formal performance management processes.
• Cultivate Engagement though Development: prepare business professionals for career growth by connecting them to learning and skill expansion. Listen to managers on team developmental needs and create plans for change.
• Off-boarding: help employees transition by conducting exit interviews, providing knowledge on benefit and retirement options and ensuring tech assets and proprietary information stays secure.
• Tech Mastery: Leverage HRIS tools like Oracle Fusion and Taleo/OCI to manage recruitment processes and employee lifecycle changes in a timely and seamless manner.

We Seek:

• Knowledge: Understanding human resources in a corporate setting including multistate legal compliance. You are curious and thorough. In times when you do not have answers, you search or research information.
• Judgment: Discretion, sound decision-making and independent thinking.
• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to build relationships, manage difficult conversations and build trust across all organizational levels.
• Time Management: You thrive in a fast-paced, deadline driven service oriented role. You know how to prioritize work and how to update people/groups when your attention is elsewhere.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in business, HR, social sciences, or a related field
• 5 years’ of progressive related experience in Human Resources
• Flexibility is required as hours may increase during busy periods and minimal travel may be required
• Experience in law firm or professional services environment is preferred
• Experience using an HRIS (Oracle is preferred)
• HRCI/SHRM Certification is preferred; if no designation, a willingness to pursue certification
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and dynamic environment where attention to detail, analytical skills, and strong organizational skills are essential
• Outstanding written and verbal communications; ability to professionally interact with attorneys, business professional, and vendors

Cozen O’Connor is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.

Cozen O'Connor actively welcomes applicants who have previously left the workforce and are looking to return to their careers. Gaps in experience are not penalized.

Cozen O’Connor is committed to employing a diverse complement of attorneys and staff, and to fostering greater inclusion in the legal profession. We understand the organizational effectiveness that comes from welcoming and valuing differences within the firm, and we know that assembling a team with a rich diversity of perspectives and experience is necessary to provide the highest quality legal service. We encourage candidates to apply and join us in this effort.