Human Resources Director

This position is incentive eligible.

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a Human Resources Director with HCA Healthcare you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Reporting to the Regional Vice President of Human Resources, this role leads complex, enterprise-level HR initiatives that advance critical business objectives. The position partners with senior HR and business leaders to identify and deliver high‑visibility transformation tied to growth, expansion, standardization, and simplification. This leader serves as a trusted advisor, strategic executor, and influential communicator, driving change across HR and the broader organization.

What you will do in this role:

• Lead complex, enterprise HR projects that drive measurable business outcomes, including growth, expansion, standardization, and simplification
• Partner with senior HR and operational leaders to identify priorities, define scope, establish governance, manage risk, and deliver results
• Advance HR strategy through strong stakeholder management, influencing executives without formal authority and navigating competing priorities and resistance
• Apply enterprise thinking by anticipating cross‑functional and downstream impacts, translating HR initiatives into business outcomes (cost, risk, performance)
• Organize and influence cross‑functional teams to deliver strategic initiatives successfully
• Plan, implement, and oversee large, high‑visibility projects, maintaining momentum in ambiguous and fast‑paced environments
• Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned areas, providing strategic guidance on project direction, implementation approach, and operational impact
• Ensure alignment of people, process, and infrastructure changes across the organization through coordinated project planning
• Define success using clear metrics (e.g., adoption, ROI, cycle time) and leverage data to course‑correct in real time
• Drive infrastructure simplification through change management, digital transformation, and integration into the standard HR operating model
• Lead HR process improvement, redesign, and implementation efforts to ensure sustainability and enterprise alignment
• Develop executive‑ready communications, dashboards, presentations, and reports that enable clear decision‑making
• Establish and maintain strong partnerships across HR, Operations, IT, Finance, and Centers of Excellence
• Collaborate with Regional HRVPs, Line of Business HR leaders, and COEs to provide feedback and improve HR strategies and programs
• Support effective utilization of the HR support model, guiding leaders to appropriate channels and ensuring adherence to HR policies and processes

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience leading complex projects, enterprise initiatives, HR operations, business operations, or related strategic work
  
• At least 5 years of experience in Human Resources
• Project management training or certification preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and experienced with project tracking, reporting, and presentation tools
• 25% travel

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Human Resources Group empowers our people to grow and give purpose to the HCA Healthcare culture. We deliver our Human Resource model in three sectors: HR Business Partners, HR Shared Operations and HR Centers of Excellence. HR Business Partner teams are critical to the success of our HR delivery model. We drive performance to achieve successful results to better care for our patients, communities and each other.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Human Resources Director opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.