So, at my job we were introduced to what to referred to us as the business HR partner. Now we already have an HR lady so my assumption was this lady did something specific, and she was under the other HR lady. Come to find out, she's telling us we can still contact the head of HR.
So I'm confused and I ask the lady to describe her day so that I can get a better understanding of what she specifically does. She gave a vague answer about answering calls and handling business stuff. So I asked who reports to her, and she kinda said in a irritated way,..about 300 people. So I'm like nah, and try to explain what I mean. My sup jumps in and says he means your main support system. She says it's just her, no one directly below her.
So even now I'm more confused, so I keep trying to get her to say exactly what she does that's different from the HR lady. Shes visibly bothered that I'm asking her. She keeps saying how she works with the HR lady, but they work together. So basically shes like the co manager of HR, an assistant coach.
She seemed bothered with that notion, what's wrong with being the assistant director? And I still dont know why I would want to contact her inside of the head HR lady.