VP, People Business Partner

Job Description:

• Advise HR and Investments leaders on workforce strategies that enhance business performance, outcomes, and organizational agility.

• Integrate HR priorities-AI readiness, cultural resilience, workforce agility, and futurecritical skills-into business strategies.
• Utilize insights from workforce, performance, and organizational analytics to guide decisionmaking.
• Partner with executives to anticipate external forces (AI, shifting employment expectations, regulatory changes) and design futureready organizational structures.

• Support workforce planning aligned with leadership development and pipeline strengthening priorities.
• Build and sustain a diverse, highimpact pipeline for critical roles; integrate succession coverage and mobility metrics.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and Talent Management to create development paths aligned with futurecritical skills (AI fluency, adaptability, digital capability).
• Support leaders and managers in navigating complexity, driving engagement, and building resilient teams.

• Support transformation initiatives that reinforce agility, crossfunctional collaboration, and responsive operating models.
• Support strategic workforce planning and work redesign by breaking down roles into tasks, identifying opportunities for humanAI collaboration, and enabling internal talent marketplaces.
• Drive culture readiness and change adoption through targeted interventions and diagnostics (e.g., culture readiness index, workforce agility metrics).

• Leverage AI, analytics, and predictive modeling to identify workforce trends, surface weak signals early, and shape talent investments.
• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence to deploy AIenabled HR services
• Use data to provide regular, strategic insights connecting people analytics to drive business outcomes.
• Guide leaders through responsible AI adoption and capability development.

• Embed a culture that views change as opportunity, reinforces belonging, and supports high performance.
• Counsel leaders on sensitive or complex employee relations issues, balancing compliance with strategic business impact.
• Promote an inclusive, collaborative, and transparent culture aligned with enterprise cultural reinforcements.

• Bachelor's degree required, Master's in HR, Business, or related field preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including 5+ years supporting global, matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive leaders to drive organizational transformation and business outcomes.
• Expertise in strategic workforce planning, organizational design, leadership development, and change management.
• Strong understanding of investment management, human resources, and how external forces impact talent strategy.
• Experience leveraging AI, analytics, and workforce technology to drive insights and decisionmaking.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and influencing skills.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, drive enterprise alignment, and operate in a fastpaced, evolving environment.

• Prioritizes a commercial-first mindset, ensuring innovative people solutions are designed and delivered to directly advance organizational goals and drive impactful business outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging robust workforce analytics & insights that support leaders to act with speed and precision.
• Proven ability to architect futureready organizations-taskbased work redesign, internal talent marketplaces, and agile workforce models.
• Strong capability in culture shaping, inclusion, belonging, and enterprisewide change leadership.
• Demonstrated use of data to drive clarity, accountability, and measurable business outcomes.
• Ability to translate complex, ambiguous signals into actionable, enterpriselevel talent strategies.

Salary Range:

$247,000 - $315,000

Base Pay Range:

The base pay range noted represents the company's good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications and geographic location. Also, most employees are eligible for additional incentive pay.

Your Benefits Start Day 1

Your wellbeing is important to Pacific Life, and we're committed to providing you with flexible benefits that you can tailor to meet your needs. Whether you are focusing on your physical, financial, emotional, or social wellbeing, we've got you covered.

• Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents

• Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off

• Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program

• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation

You Can Be Who You Are

We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.

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EEO Statement:

Pacific Life Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at Pacific Life Insurance Company.