8901 - Corp Office West Crk - 12800 Tuckahoe Creek Parkway, Richmond, Virginia,
23238
CarMax, the way your career should be!
Position Overview
As a Senior Manager, HR Services, you will serve as a strategic HR partner to
senior leaders across assigned Home Office functions, helping shape people
strategies that drive organizational effectiveness, talent outcomes, engagement,
and an exceptional associate experience. You will operate with a broad
enterprise mindset, applying independent judgment in complex situations and
modeling courageous leadership aligned with CarMax values. This role plays a key
part in enabling CarMax to put people first—ensuring our approach to
performance, talent, and organizational design supports a positive, consistent,
and best in class associate experience.
Why CarMax?
At CarMax, we are the nation’s largest retailer of used cars with stores from
coast to coast, and we are still growing. We’re rethinking the way people buy
cars – and it’s our associates that help us do just that. We believe work should
feel meaningful and rewarding, with opportunities to make an impact every day.
This is where innovation meets passion – be inspired and supported to take us to
the future.
Team Overview
You will support HR Services leadership while partnering closely with Senior HR
leaders, Centers of Excellence, and Home Office business leaders to deliver
consistent, high quality HR support. This role helps translate HR strategy into
seamless execution across performance management, associate relations, talent
development, and engagement—ensuring alignment with CarMax’s culture, policies,
and business needs.
Role Responsibilities
* Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on organizational design, talent
strategy, performance management, and associate relations matters.
* Lead complex associate relations and organizational challenges, offering
sound judgment and an enterprise level perspective.
* Translate business strategy into people strategies that strengthen
engagement, capability, and operational results.
* Analyze HR and workforce data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities;
influence decision making through insight driven recommendations.
* Partner with HR Centers of Excellence to design, enhance, and implement
solutions across talent, compensation, learning, and associate relations.
* Mentor and develop HR managers and team members, building bench strength and
capability across the HR Services team.
* Model courageous leadership, challenging appropriately, influencing change,
and upholding consistent application of policies, processes, and CarMax
values.
Required Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
* 7+ years of HR or related experience, with strong analytical and project
management capabilities.
* Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and navigate complex,
ambiguous situations.
* Strong analytical judgment and communication skills across written, verbal,
and interpersonal channels.
* Experience mentoring and developing HR professionals.
* Proficiency with Workday or similar HCM systems.
* Proven ability to build strong partnerships, support organizational goals,
and manage competing priorities effectively.
This role will be based out of the CarMax Home Office (Richmond,
VA) and associates will work onsite 4 days per week.
About CarMax
At CarMax, we revolutionized the used car buying experience over 30 years ago by
introducing transparency and integrity into the process. Our commitment to
customer experience, innovation, and community has made us the nation’s largest
used car retailer. With over 250 store locations and over 30,000 associates, we
are proud to have been recognized as one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to
Work For® and are committed to helping our communities thrive.
As an associate, you are part of an innovative movement to empower the modern
customer and drive progress. Your work fuels change—sparking ideas, overcoming
challenges, and shaping what’s next. Join us in creating a better future– for
our company, our customers, and the communities we call home.
CarMax is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin,
protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic
protected by law.
The annual salary for this position is:
$107,800.00 - $172,500.00
May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Benefits:
Except as otherwise required by state law, CarMax Associates are entitled to the
following paid sick, vacation, and holiday time.
Associates that are considered full-time hourly or commission/incentive
eligible:
* To earn up to 48 hours of sick time per year accrued on a per pay period
basis and between 80 hours and 200 hours per year of vacation time after a 90
day waiting period depending on years of continuous service with the
Company.
* For 8 hours of pay for each of a total of 6 paid scheduled holidays per year
plus 1 floating holiday. If such an Associate does work on a scheduled
holiday due to business need, they are eligible for Holiday Premium Pay.
Associates considered full-time salaried are entitled to paid time away with no
specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays,
floating holiday, etc. subject to manager approval.
For more details about benefits, please visit our CarMax Benefits
[http://apps.bswift.com/portal/carmax] website.
Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to
complete the CarMax Job Application.