People Partner

Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is one of the world’s leading providers of legacy reinsurance solutions. They work with the world’s leading insurance companies to help them execute comprehensive, transformational solutions for legacy Life & Annuity and P&C lines. Fortitude Re manages a general account of approximately $111 billion across life, annuity, and property & casualty insurance products. The company takes a long-term view on growth and is proud to be backed by a consortium of sophisticated institutional investors led by The Carlyle Group and T&D Insurance Group. Incorporated under the laws of Bermuda on January 1, 2017, Fortitude Re’s roots in the insurance industry and the experience of their leadership go back many decades. Fortitude Re’s leadership team has an average industry tenure of over 20 years, and an impressive track record of successfully managing the most complex legacy liabilities. Their deep insurance experience and proprietary risk modeling capabilities allow them to structure bespoke transactions that benefit both insurance companies and their policyholders. Fortitude Re continues to strengthen its ability to pursue further growth and provide innovative solutions for the global insurance industry. Click here for more information about Fortitude Re.

The People Partner, serves as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, helping them make sound people decisions and building high performing, engaged teams. This individual contributor partners with a broad group of leaders across complex business areas. The role leads the development and implementation of solutions to complex workforce, organizational effectiveness, talent, and change challenges working with other People & Culture teams to put practical solutions in place. The People Partner helps leaders build teams and environments that reflect Fortitude Re's values and strengthen Fortitude Re’s culture.

What You Will Do:

Strategic People Partnership:

• Be a trusted advisor and partner to senior leaders, providing strategic guidance on all people-related matters, including organizational design, compensation planning, employee retention, employee relations, management coaching, performance management and change enablement.
• Enable business outcomes by closely partnering with leaders to translate business priorities into practical people plans, support implementation, and assess outcomes.
• Present clear options and trade-offs, challenge thinking constructively, and help senior leaders make informed decisions.
• Coach leaders through difficult performance and colleague matters, partnering with Employee Relations and escalating significant risks when needed.

Change Management and Organizational Development:

• Independently lead complex organizational design, workforce planning, and people change initiatives, considering impacts across teams and putting practical solutions in place.
• Collaborate with the various People & Culture teams to co-create talent solutions to address business needs and drive colleague engagement, retention, and propel performance including development programs.

Innovation:

• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices, bringing fresh ideas and innovative approaches to the table.
• Proactively use workforce data and colleague feedback to understand problems, develop insights, test assumptions, and recommend actions.
• Leverage approved AI tools to improve analysis, accelerate problem-solving and redesign work.

Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration:

• Foster relationships and collaboration with senior leadership, People & Culture, and cross-functional departments to deliver solutions that enable business outcomes

What You Will Have:

Education and Experience:

• Significant HR experience, including advising senior leaders across complex businesses or varied teams.
• Business judgment: the ability to weigh risks, costs, colleagues’ needs, and business goals when making recommendations.
• Extensive experience leading organization design, workforce planning, change management, talent, performance, and employee relations.
• Experience independently leading large, complex projects across teams, from identifying the problem through putting solutions in place.
• Ability to use data to find root causes, assess results, and design solutions.

Skills and Qualifications:

• High level of change agility with ability to quickly adapt with change and help others navigate uncertainty.
• A learning mindset with curiosity about AI and a willingness to learn and use it responsibly, including questioning AI outputs and applying human judgment; advanced AI experience is not required.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust, influence without authority and build strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, quickly evolving organization with ability operate to navigate areas of ambiguity
• Proficient in MS365, knowledge of Workday, Claude, and Greenhouse a plus.

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The base salary range for this role is listed below and will be commensurate with candidate experience. Pay ranges for candidates may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. In addition to base salary, all employees are eligible for an annual bonus based on company and individual performance as well as a generous benefits package.

Base Salary Range$165,000—$205,000 USD

At Fortitude Re, our strength has always come from our people. Our success is deeply rooted in our ability to embrace the unique attributes, perspectives and experiences of every individual within our company. Fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging where everyone—regardless of background, race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity—feels valued and respected is a foundation of our culture.

We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, diversity of thought and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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