The Business Partner forms productive working relationships with managers and employees in client departments. Primary functions include advising and coaching management on managing and leading their workforce and subordinate management, ensuring compliance with applicable law, contract and regulation, and ensuring implementation of organization-level HR strategies and plans consistently at the department level. Business Partner support takes a wide variety of forms including assistance with transactions, straightforward answers to questions, supplying new ideas, tactics, strategies, and approaches to managing staff, labor relations work, facilitating communication, or challenging managers to move to higher levels of leadership performance outside of the manager's comfort zone.