Senior People Business Partner - Philadelphia, PA

The role

You will serve as a senior People partner to Market Owners and hospital leaders across a region. You will support talent, engagement, performance, and leadership capability through field-based partnership.

What you will do

• Partner with Market Owners and hospital leaders to translate business priorities into People strategies.
• Spend time in hospitals to build relationships with VEGgies and leaders.
• Coach leaders through performance management, employee relations, and difficult conversations.
• Support regional execution of talent reviews, succession planning, and engagement surveys.
• Use people data to identify and diagnose talent, engagement, and retention risks.
• Partner with People COEs, Talent, Legal, and regional operations to support People initiatives.

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ years of progressive Human Resources / People experience.
• Experience supporting leaders through complex people, performance, engagement, and employee relations matters.
• Strong business judgment to connect People decisions to operational outcomes.
• Experience managing complex employee relations issues and applying HR policies and employment law.
• Experience supporting performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and leader coaching.
• Ability to travel up to 50–70% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting distributed, field-based, multi-site, healthcare, retail, hospitality, veterinary, or similarly high-growth operational environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business, or related field
• PHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or similar certification
• Experience with Workday or similar HR systems

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits starting on day one
• Access to free therapy or counseling
• Paid parental leave up to 12 weeks at 100% of regular salary
• Inclusive fertility and family-building care
• Unlimited PTO
• Employee referral program
• Casual office attire
• Ability to bring your fur baby to work
• VEG swag
• Food in the fridge
• Free lunches twice a week

About the company

VEG is a veterinary emergency company that operates hospitals nationwide 24/7/365. The company is a 2025 and 2026 certified Great Place to Work®.