Our overall mission is simple: we want Amazon to be the place where our customers can find, discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want, we will find the means to deliver it. With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation.
This is your chance to make history.
The Amazon HR team is passionate about business partnering in its truest sense. Reporting to the Regional HR Manager, you will play a critical role in delivering the HR plan at our delivery stations in the South. You will work closely with the operations teams at numerous sites in your region providing pragmatic, commercial and employee-focused advice and support to a client group of operations and area managers as well as several support functions. You will utilize your excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills to drive employee engagement and manage change, ensuring that we retain motivated teams of employees who can deliver an excellent service to our customers.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Drive Associate engagement programs, acting as Employee Relations Subject Matter Expert, monitor Associate feedback to drive effective employee relations, retention and reward programs
Manage labor relations if applicable and complex cases with both internal and external parties, while integrating legislative shifts into HR policy and practices
Create people-centric plans to meet business demands through a strong understanding of how talent fits into the business strategy and how to develop talent
Coordinate with management to build and execute recruitment of middle and senior management, on boarding, training and development initiatives
Facilitate and manage the talent review process and succession planning in partnership with management
Draw insights from data to improve processes, employee engagement and policy alignment across the business
Manage and deploy complex HR projects and lead change initiatives, including implementing new tools and technology that will provide better support to stakeholders
A day in the life
As Senior HRBP you will actively apply your understanding of Amazon’s Leadership Principles and values when consulting with Senior Operations Managers, Operations Managers and Functional Heads on Coaching plans, team meetings, employee development and promotions, role modelling our leadership principles during your interactions with associates and leaders.
Organisational Development and Planning:
You will work with your closely with you operational partners to define key business goals and priorities. To inform your priorities you will possess an absolute and intimate knowledge and understanding of all core metrics; applying these to your core areas of HR responsibility in order to prioritise work and set goals. You will also provide input into organisational design discussions i.e. information about talent for succession planning and attrition risks.
Organisational Health:
As a Snr HRBP you will implement projects that address workplace environment, employee engagement or retention issues. You will conduct diagnostics to identify trends and environmental ER or workplace issues, communicating findings and formulating and deploying strategic remedies to identified work place issues. As a Senior HRBP you conduct investigations into employee relations issues in consultation with management at site and where required in the UK network. You will also support the roll-out of network compliance initiatives as well as understanding and independently counselling the business regarding local employment law and legislation changes.
Workforce Planning and Recruitment:
As a Senior HRBP you will lead on hiring, partnering with your respective Operational/Functional Heads. You may participate in site and UK network interviews panels and also participate in peer level interviews. You will use your influence to help drive hiring decisions and are able to diffuse where decisions may be in conflict.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management or a related field
- Knowledge of local labor law
- Experience as a human resource generalist
- Experience with specific knowledge of human resource theory, functions and practice, performance appraisal systems and staff development
- Experience supporting hourly employee client group
- Experience with MS Office tools and HR Information Systems
- Master's degree in Human Resources Management
- Experience assessing management and executive talent
- Experience developing and administering HR compensation plans
- Experience in human resources with companies supporting 250-500 or more associates
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