Sr. HR Business Partner/Manager

About Us

LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers across the global legal market with leading information, analytics, and technology solutions. We support law firms, corporate legal departments, and government entities in advancing the rule of law and improving legal outcomes.

Our Legal Market business is focused on innovation, commercial growth, and delivering exceptional customer value. We are seeking an experienced Senior HR Manager / Senior Human Resources Business Partner to provide strategic and operational HR partnership to leaders and employees while supporting an evolving and diverse workforce.

About the Role

The Senior HR Manager / Senior Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) serves as a trusted advisor to business leaders, managers, and employees, providing practical and strategic HR guidance that supports business priorities, workforce effectiveness, employee engagement, and organizational performance.

This role will support a workforce consisting of both union-represented and non-union employees and requires demonstrated experience in labor and employee relations. The Senior HR Manager will advise leaders on complex employee matters, grievances, performance and conduct issues, organizational change, and the consistent application of company policies and collective bargaining agreements.

The role partners closely with specialized HR teams including Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience, Talent Development, Total Rewards, Employee Relations, Legal, and HR Operations to deliver integrated HR solutions. The successful candidate will combine strong business acumen with hands-on HR expertise and will be comfortable operating in a complex, fast-paced environment. The role requires sound judgment, strong negotiation and influencing capabilities, and the ability to build trusted relationships with business leaders, employees, union representatives, and HR stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnership

- Partner with business leaders and managers to understand business priorities and translate them into practical people plans and HR solutions.

- Provide coaching, consultation, and HR guidance to leaders and managers on workforce, talent, performance, organizational, and employee matters.

- Use workforce data and HR insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and support informed business decision-making.

- Support organizational changes, restructures, workforce initiatives, and business transformation efforts.

- Partner with HR Centers of Excellence to implement enterprise and regional programs while adapting solutions to meet local business and workforce needs.

- Promote AI fluency and support adoption of AI-enabled ways of working across the workforce.

- Identify opportunities to strengthen workforce skills and capabilities in support of evolving business needs.

Labor & Employee Relations

- Serve as a key HR partner for a workforce that includes both union-represented and non-union employees.

- Provide day-to-day labor relations guidance and counsel to leaders and managers regarding interpretation and application of collective bargaining agreements, workplace policies, practices, and employment requirements.

- Manage and support the grievance process, including investigating concerns, gathering and evaluating relevant information, advising management, preparing responses, and partnering with Employee Relations and Legal as appropriate.

- Build and maintain productive working relationships with union representatives while balancing employee, business, and organizational needs.

- Participate in and support labor negotiations, requiring demonstrated negotiation skills and the ability to prepare for and navigate complex labor discussions.

- Support contract administration and the consistent application of collective bargaining agreement provisions.

- Partner with leaders on employee relations matters involving performance, attendance, conduct, conflict resolution, work