Senior People Business Partner

Experience Without Limits. Come shape the future of brand experience.

At Jack Morton we create and build head-turning smile-inducing impact driving brand experiences. We exist to redefine what experiential can achieve helping clients unlock the full value of experiences.

That takes a team thats bold curious and acts as one - building on ideas pushing boundaries and showing up for each other. Here youll do your best work grow fast and collaborate across clients disciplines and global teams to bring new ideas to life.

This is a place where curiosity drives whats next boldness raises the bar and we win together. Where ownership is expected egos are left at the door and the work reflects the people behind it.

Experience without limits in your work your growth and your impact.

**must be able to work hybrid in Addison IL 3 days/week**

Werebuildingwhatsnext at Jack Morton.

Experiential marketing is changing fast how brands show up how audiences engage how stories get told live and in the moment. The People team is right in the middle of that just supporting the business;wereshaping how itoperates how it scales and how our people experience working here.

Werelooking for aSenior People Business Partnerto join us in Addison IL and support our North America operations as part of a global People team spanning seven countries. Thisisnta maintenance build role for someone who sees a People function as a product to design iterate on and improve not a service desk to staff.

If youve been waiting for a chance toactually shapehow HR gets delivered including reimagining what AI can do for our people our managers and our work this is that seat.

Whatyoulldo

Youllbe the trusted People partner to a portfolio of NAM business leaders helping them build healthy high-performing teams in a creative project-driven agency environment. Day to day that looks like:

• Partnering with leaderson org design workforce planning talent strategy performance and the harder conversations that come with running creative teams under client pressure.
• Owning the employee lifecyclefor your client groups onboarding development performance management ER offboarding and looking forwhatsbroken repetitive or quietly painful then fixing it.
• Coaching managersto lead better. Real coaching direct specific useful not just policy reminders.
• Driving talent and successionconversations that connect to where the business is going not just whereitsbeen.
• Leading and supporting changethrough one of the most consequential moments in our agencys history. The Impact XM and Jack Morton integration is reshaping how weoperate and your work will help define how that lands for our people.
• Building AI into how we deliver from talent reviews to manager enablement to engagement listening so the People functionoperateswith leverage not just effort.
• Collaborating globallywith Peoplepartners in our other regions so what we build in NAM connects to a coherent global employee experience not a patchwork of local solutions.

What you bring

• 8 years of progressive HR / People experience with at least 3 years as a true business partner to senior leaders.

• Experience in agency creative professional services or another fast-moving project-based environment strongly preferred.

• A genuine builder mindset youvebuilt or rebuilt processes programs or ways of working not justexecutedsomeone elses playbook.

• Strong command of the core: employee relations performance comp basics employment law org design.

• Comfort with ambiguity and change bonus points for M&A or post-merger integration experience.

• Hands-on regular use of AI tools (Microsoft Copilot ChatGPT Claude Gemini or similar) as a real part of your workflow not passing familiarity and ideally early experience designing AI into how a team or functionoperates.

• Strong written and verbal communication you can be direct without being harsh and clear without being clinical.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience. SHRM-SCP / SPHR a plus notrequired.

Why this role why now

Jack Morton is in the middle of one of the most ambitious chapters in our history. The merger integration with Impact XM is creating something new bigger more connected more globally capable and the People function is being built alongside it not bolted on after. That means your fingerprints will be onthe employeeexperience for years to come.

Youllwork with smart creative people who care about the work and about each leaders who want a real partner not a process owner. Andyoullhave room to build.

How we work

Werepeople-first and we mean it. That shows up in how we coach how we hire how we handle hard moments and how we design the small daily things that add up to what it feels liketo workhere. If that resonateswedlove to talk.

Jack Morton is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate the diverse perspectives experiences and backgrounds that make our agency and our work stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic.

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