About Us
Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.
For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.
Strategic HR Business Partner-Director
What You Will Do
The Strategic HR Business Partner, Director is accountable for improving business performance by translating workforce strategy into disciplined execution across a function, team cluster, or defined organizational area.
This leader ensures workforce plans, talent processes, and leadership actions are implemented with strong process discipline, reliable follow-through, and consistent alignment to business priorities. Operating within a product-based HR model, the HRBP is not a service provider. The role works with leaders to identify business and workforce needs, diagnose execution gaps, activate enterprise HR products, and ensure leaders own their people and workforce decisions.
Using structured, data-driven problem solving, the Director identifies gaps in:
Workforce planning and organizational alignment
Headcount actions and execution
Talent process discipline
Performance management
Development actions
Data quality and accuracy
Leader ownership and follow-through
Adoption of enterprise HR products and processes
These insights are used to activate enterprise HR products as standard solutions that improve consistency, reduce manual or local workarounds, and strengthen the quality of workforce and talent execution.
The Director reinforces leader ownership by ensuring managers and leaders execute workforce plans, performance management, development actions, and talent processes with discipline and accountability. The role also reinforces consistent application of performance and reward processes so standards are applied fairly and execution supports business priorities.
The Director coordinates HRBP, HR Operations, and partner-team activity supporting the business, ensuring strong data quality, consistent execution standards, completion discipline, and timely escalation of risks or gaps.
Success requires practical business judgment, strong process discipline, collaborative influence, and the ability to convert strategy into clear, reliable action.
The role translates the business's three primary sources of demand into workforce plans and disciplined execution:
Annual operating plans and associated performance metrics
Strategic initiatives and workforce plans
Colleague experience
How You Will Do It: Our Winning Behaviors
At Johnson Controls, how we deliver results matters. This leader will model and embed our Winning Behaviors throughout the organization.
Focus on What Matters
Go to Gemba with leaders to understand business and workforce realities firsthand.
Use data and insight to diagnose root causes rather than symptoms.
Prioritize the talent, workforce, and organizational issues that have the greatest impact on business performance.
Activate enterprise HR products where they can create the greatest value.
Maintain focus on workforce and talent priorities while ensuring transactional and policy work is routed appropriately.
Win as One Team
Collaborate across HR Product teams, Centers of Excellence, HR Operations, PMO, Workforce Analytics, HRBPs, and business leadership.
Coordinate partner activity to deliver integrated and consistent solutions.
Align leaders to enterprise standards while actively influencing and shaping solutions to ensure they meet business needs.
Promote consistent execution, strong…