Senior Vice President Human Resources

Highgate Hotels Corporate Office - NY seeks a Senior Vice President Human Resources to lead the global HR strategy for a diverse hospitality portfolio. This role oversees talent acquisition, leadership development, total rewards, and HR operations to support a high performance, entrepreneurial culture. The SVP HR will partner with executive leadership to align workforce planning with business growth, drive organizational design, DEI, and change initiatives, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and international labor laws. The leader will mentor a multi site HR team, implement data driven people analytics, and champion engagement and retention across all hotel and corporate functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide HR strategy aligned with Highgate's growth objectives

• Oversee talent acquisition, workforce planning, and succession management

• Design and manage total rewards, including compensation and benefits strategy

• Drive leadership development, learning, and organizational effectiveness initiatives

• Champion performance management and a data-driven, results-oriented culture

• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and international labor and employment laws

• Lead change management, DEI, and employee engagement programs

• Provide strategic counsel to executive leadership on people and culture issues

• Manage, coach, and develop a multi-site HR leadership team

• Implement people analytics and HR technology to inform decisions Required Skills

• Strategic HR leadership

• Organizational design

• Executive-level stakeholder management

• Compensation and benefits strategy

• Talent acquisition and workforce planning

• Leadership development and succession planning

• Change management

• HR analytics and metrics

• Labor and employment law compliance

• HRIS and people systems