What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Human Resources Business Partner position at AccruePartners?
THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING
- Privately held, high-growth organization operating within the transportation, logistics, and freight brokerage space
- Fast-paced, high-volume environment supporting a business that moves quickly and requires strong partnership between HR and operations
- Lean but highly collaborative HR team with strong visibility across senior leadership, operations, recruiting, and field management
- Culture values autonomy, problem-solving, and hands-on leadership rather than micromanagement
- Organization is navigating continued growth, integration, and operational change, creating a strong opportunity for HR to directly influence the employee and leadership experience
- Chicago, 4 days onsite with work-from-home flexibility on Fridays
- Opportunity to serve as a true strategic HR partner to operational leaders across a large employee population
- High-impact role with visibility across directors, managers, sales leaders, operations teams, and senior HR leadership
- Ability to support a dynamic business through employee relations, retention, staffing, performance management, and workforce planning
- Collaborative HR structure with peer support, while still offering autonomy and ownership over your business group
- Potential for continued growth as the team evolves, including future support resources as the business scales
- This person will support approximately 250 to 300 employees within a fast-paced freight brokerage environment
- The role will partner closely with operations leaders to coach managers, support employee engagement, and help drive retention
- This individual will be heavily involved in employee relations, performance management, compliance, staffing strategy, and organizational change
- The business has recently integrated acquired teams, creating a need for HR leadership around manager coaching, hiring practices, and workforce alignment
- This is a hands-on HRBP role, requiring someone comfortable being close to the employee population and directly involved in day-to-day business needs
- 5 years of progressive HR experience, ideally in a fast-paced operational environment
- Experience supporting large employee populations, ideally 250 employees across multiple levels and functions
- Strong employee relations, performance management, retention, and manager coaching experience
- Ability to partner closely with recruiting and operations teams on staffing, workforce planning, and organizational changes
- Background in transportation, logistics, manufacturing, hospitality, startup, or other high-volume environments would translate well
- Hands-on, flexible, and independent HR professional who can operate without heavy oversight and adapt quickly as business needs shift