- Location
- India, Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Human Resources
- Seniority
- Lead
- Education
- Bachelor
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Thomson Reuters is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to drive organizational effectiveness and talent strategy within our Technology organization. In this pivotal role, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, enabling them to build high-performing teams while navigating rapid change and digital transformation. Combining strong business acumen with people-focused expertise, you'll partner on critical initiatives spanning talent management, organizational design, employee engagement, and change leadership—ultimately balancing business outcomes with exceptional employee experience.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and business-focused HR Business Partner to support leaders and employees within Thomson Reuters' Technology organization. As a trusted advisor, you will partner with business leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, employee engagement, leadership development, workforce planning, and change initiatives.
The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen with a pragmatic people-first approach, enabling leaders to build high-performing teams while navigating a fast-paced, AI-enabled and continuously evolving business environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Business Partnership
Serve as the primary HR advisor to leaders across assigned technology organizations.
Develop strong partnerships with leaders to understand business priorities, workforce challenges, and organizational goals.
Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support decision-making.
Partner with leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, talent movement, and team effectiveness initiatives.
Talent & Performance Management
Drive annual and mid-year performance processes.
Partner with leaders to identify, develop, and retain critical talent.
Support succession planning and leadership pipeline development.
Coach leaders on performance conversations, development planning, and differentiated talent management.
Employee Experience & Engagement
Assess organizational health and employee sentiment through surveys, listening channels, and direct employee interactions.
Facilitate employee engagement strategies and action planning.
Conduct stay interviews, leadership connects, and employee listening forums to proactively identify opportunities and risks.
Promote an inclusive and positive workplace culture aligned with Thomson Reuters values.
Organizational Effectiveness & Change Management
Support business transformations, restructures, integration efforts, and change initiatives.
Guide leaders through organizational transitions while balancing business outcomes and employee experience.
Advise leaders on role clarity, organizational design, workforce optimization, and operating model changes.
Partner with global HR colleagues to ensure consistent people practices.
Employee Relations & Risk Mitigation
Provide consultative guidance on employee relations matters.
Partner with managers on coaching, performance improvement plans, investigations, and complex employee situations.
Ensure appropriate application of company policies and employment practices.
Proactively identify and mitigate people-related risks.
Leadership Coaching & Capability Building
Coach leaders on people management, team dynamics, inclusion, and leadership effectiveness.
Facilitate manager enablement initiatives.
Help leaders navigate difficult employee situations with confidence and empathy.
Promote a culture of accountability, growth, and continuous learning.
HR Transformation & AI Adoption
Champion adoption of modern HR practices, tools, and technologies.
Leverage analytics and AI-enabled insights to improve decision quality and people outcomes.
Identify opportunities to streamline HR processes and enhance employee experience.
Support organizational efforts to build an AI-first culture.
About You
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or related discipline.
8+ years of progressive HR experience with significant HR Business Partner experience.
Experience supporting technology, product, engineering, digital, or similarly dynamic business functions.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Demonstrated experience in change management, talent management, and organizational effectiveness.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching skills.
Preferred
Experience working in a global or matrixed organization.
Experience supporting leaders at senior manager and director levels.
Familiarity with AI-enabled HR practices and workforce analytics.
Experience managing organizational transformations, integrations, or workforce restructuring initiatives.
Success in this Role
The successful HR Business Partner will:
Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders.
Enable leaders to make informed people decisions.
Build high-performing, engaged, and inclusive teams.
Balance business outcomes with employee experience.
Use data and insights to drive action.
Champion innovation, simplicity, and continuous improvement.
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What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.
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