VP, Business HR Leader - Retirement Solutions

Business Area HR Leader – Retirement Solutions, VP
The Business Area HR Leader serves as a strategic advisor to senior business leaders, partnering to sharpen the workforce needed to deliver business strategy today and in the future.  This role brings together business acumen, organizational effectiveness, workforce strategy, leadership coaching, data-driven decision making, and change leadership to improve organizational performance. 
The HRBL helps leaders solve complex business challenges through people, organization, and capability solutions.  They challenge thinking, identify root causes, leverage AI and workforce insights, and build practical solutions that improve business outcomes, employee experience, and organizational health.
This leader partners across HR Centers of Excellence and Workforce Advisory teams to deliver integrated solutions while enabling leaders to own and drive their people agenda. 


Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior executives, helping shape workforce strategies that enable business growth, transformation, and execution
• Diagnose organizational challenges by identifying the problem and designing practical, scalable solutions that improve organizational effectiveness
• Partner with leaders to design organizations, clarify accountabilities, strengthen operating models and improve team performance
• Coach leaders to strengthen leadership effectiveness, accountability, organizational health, change leadership, and employee engagement
• Use workforce analytics, AI-enabled insights, external market trends, and business data to influence decisions around talent, capability, productivity, succession, and organizational investments.
• Translate business priorities into integrated workforce plans, including organization design, critical capabilities, and talent movement
• Influence business leaders through thoughtful challenge, strategic consultation and data driven recommendations
• Partners across HR to ensure leaders receive seamless, end-to-end workforce solutions while continually simplifying processes and improving the employee experience.
• Ensure people decisions appropriately balance business outcomes, employee experience, risk management, and regulatory requirements.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by leveraging technology and AI to simplify work and improve organizational effectiveness.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 10+ Years Required

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
11PL

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• Strategic business acumen
• Organization design and operating model expertise
• Executive consulting and influencing
• Workforce planning & talent strategy
• Organizational diagnostics and root cause analysis
• Leadership Coaching
• AI and data fluency
• Change leadership
• Enterprise mindset
• Systems thinking
• Strong judgment and courage
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities

Related Skills

Business Acumen, Change Management, Conflict Management, Consultative Communication, Data-Based Decision Making, HR Business Consultation, Human Capital Strategy, Influence, Problem Solving, Talent Mindset, Trusted HR Advisory

Anticipated Posting End Date:

2026-08-08

Base Pay Range: $176,000/yr - $236,000/yr

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.  In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans). 

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Company Overview

Every worker deserves a secure retirement. For more than 100 years, TIAA has delivered it for millions of people. Founded to help educators retire with dignity, today weʼre a market-leading retirement company fueled by world-class asset management. But weʼre not just another legacy financial services firm. Weʼre fighting harder than ever before for our clients and the many Americans who need us.

Our Culture of Impact

At TIAA, we're on a mission to build on our 100+ year legacy of delivering for our clients while evolving to meet tomorrow's challenges. We equip our associates with future-focused skills and AI tools that enable us to advance our mission. Together, we are fighting to ensure a more secure financial future for all and for generations to come. We are guided by our values: Champion Our People, Be Client Obsessed, Lead with Integrity, Own It, and Win As One. They influence every decision we make and how we work together to serve our clients every day. We thrive in a collaborative in-office environment where teams work across organizational boundaries with shared purpose, accelerating innovation and delivering meaningful results. Our workplace brings together TIAA and Nuveen's entrepreneurial spirit, where we work hard and work together to create lasting impact. Here, every associate can grow through meaningful learning experiences and development pathways—because when our people succeed, our impact on clients' lives grows stronger.

Benefits and Total Rewards

The organization is committed to making financial well-being possible for its clients, and is equally committed to the well-being of our associates. That’s why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to make a positive difference in the lives of our associates and their loved ones. Our benefits include a superior retirement program and highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings that can help you achieve and maintain your best possible physical, emotional and financial well-being. To learn more about your benefits, please review our Benefits Summary.

Equal Opportunity

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. TIAA does not discriminate against any candidate or employee on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.

Our full EEO & Non-Discrimination statement is on our careers home page, and you can read more about your rights and view government notices here.

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If you are a U.S. applicant and desire a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application please use one of the below options to contact our accessibility support team: 

Phone: (800) 842-2755

Email: accessibility.support@tiaa.org

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