Overview:
Konica Minolta is seeking a full-time Director of HR Business Partners to join our team. This leadership role will be instrumental in shaping workforce planning, driving employee engagement initiatives, and advancing talent development strategies to position our North American operations for long-term success. This is an in-office role based at our headquarters in Ramsey, NJ, with a Monday through Thursday on-site schedule and remote work on Fridays.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Provide visionary leadership to a team of North American HR Business Partners, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Advance the professional development of the HR Business Partner team by keeping informed of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in HR and talent management, and provide leadership and guidance to the HR team to continuously enhance their skills and knowledge.
• Talent Development: Develop and implement talent development strategies in partnership with the Head of Talent Management and determine programs that align with organizational goals and enhance employee engagement, retention, and performance. Support business leaders in prioritizing the development of top talent.
• Workforce Planning: Lead HR Business Partner team in partnering with senior leadership to conduct comprehensive workforce planning, design and identifying current and future skills and talent needs, developing strategies to retain, and develop top talent.
• Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure HR initiatives are closely aligned with business objectives and support overall organizational strategy. Actively seek to understand the external talent and performance practices and tools and consider how these might accelerate our talent strategy. Continuously monitor existing talent and performance practices to measure their impact on achieving our talent strategy.
• Performance Management: Oversee the design and implementation of performance management processes that drive accountability, support professional growth, and foster a high-performance culture based on continuous feedback.
• Employee Engagement: Lead efforts to enhance employee engagement through the creation and implementation of talent development initiatives. Partner with leaders to understand their engagement.
• Change Management: Guide the organization through periods of change by providing strategic guidance, communication support, and change management expertise.
• Lead the North American Field HR Team who supports project-based work for the organization and HR Function.
• Responsible for managing vendor relationships and budgeting for the ER function.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in HR leadership roles, with a focus on talent development, workforce planning, and employee engagement.
• Proven track record of successfully leading HR teams and implementing talent development strategies that drive business results.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business goals into actionable HR initiatives.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated change management expertise and the ability to navigate and lead organizations through periods of change.
• Proficiency in understanding data and analytics and leveraging that information to measure performance and identify trends and areas of opportunity.

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About Us:
Konica Minolta Business Solutions’ (Konica Minolta) journey started more than 150 years ago, with a vision to see and do things differently. The company partners with clients to Give Shape to Ideas by supporting their digital transformation through its expansive Intelligent Connected Workplace portfolio. Its business technology offerings include IT Services, intelligent information management, video security solutions and managed print services, as well as office technology and industrial and commercial print solutions. 2025 marks Konica Minolta’s 20th anniversary in production print, for which it celebrates “20 Years of Excellence, Innovation and Impact,” and continues to lead the way in digital commercial printing. This year also commemorates 20 years of Konica Minolta’s bizhub brand. Over the past two decades, the bizhub series has revolutionized office technology and redefined how businesses operate. It has continuously evolved to meet the needs of modern workplaces, fueled by advances in technology and a commitment to innovation. Konica Minolta is proud to be ranked on the Forbes 2025 America’s Best Large Employers list, included on CRN’s MSP 500 list numerous times; recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for eighteen consecutive years and presented with Keypoint Intelligence’s BLI 2025 and 2021 A3 Line of The Year and BLI 2021-2023 Most Color Consistent A3 Brand Awards for its bizhub One i-Series. For more information, please visit Konica Minolta online and follow it on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Konica Minolta operates on a North American Shared Services model, which aligns cross-border priorities and enhances delivery to its field organization. This combines service functions in the U.S. and Canada, ultimately providing more resources to support areas such as sales administration, logistics and supply chain, marketing, product planning, finance, IT, HR and legal.

• Leadership: Provide visionary leadership to a team of North American HR Business Partners, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Advance the professional development of the HR Business Partner team by keeping informed of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in HR and talent management, and provide leadership and guidance to the HR team to continuously enhance their skills and knowledge.
• Talent Development: Develop and implement talent development strategies in partnership with the Head of Talent Management and determine programs that align with organizational goals and enhance employee engagement, retention, and performance. Support business leaders in prioritizing the development of top talent.
• Workforce Planning: Lead HR Business Partner team in partnering with senior leadership to conduct comprehensive workforce planning, design and identifying current and future skills and talent needs, developing strategies to retain, and develop top talent.
• Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure HR initiatives are closely aligned with business objectives and support overall organizational strategy. Actively seek to understand the external talent and performance practices and tools and consider how these might accelerate our talent strategy. Continuously monitor existing talent and performance practices to measure their impact on achieving our talent strategy.
• Performance Management: Oversee the design and implementation of performance management processes that drive accountability, support professional growth, and foster a high-performance culture based on continuous feedback.
• Employee Engagement: Lead efforts to enhance employee engagement through the creation and implementation of talent development initiatives. Partner with leaders to understand their engagement.
• Change Management: Guide the organization through periods of change by providing strategic guidance, communication support, and change management expertise.
• Lead the North American Field HR Team who supports project-based work for the organization and HR Function.
• Responsible for managing vendor relationships and budgeting for the ER function