HR Partner, Talent Development Specialist
About the Role
We are seeking an HR Partner to join our team as a Talent Development Specialist. As an integral member of our HR team, you will play a key role in shaping the employee experience and supporting leaders to focus on people through engagement, technology, and innovation.
The HR Partner role in our Talent Development Team is a 12-month fixed-term contract focusing on the development of our employees. During this term, you can expect to do the following:
* Influence change and foster an environment of inclusion for our employees.
* Problem-solving and influencing in diverse populations.
* Working in a fast-paced and complex changing environment driven by continuous innovation.
* Application of HR fundamentals.
* Partnering with leaders at multiple levels of the organization to develop forward-looking strategies and goals focused on the employee experience.
About the Team
Our Talent Development Team delivers personalized support to our employees to amplify their voice. In this role, you will collaborate with business leaders and other HR teams to innovate, implement, and deploy talent management strategies from performance management, compensation, and employee relations.
About You
We are looking for someone with a flexible skill set, including the ability to pivot through various scenarios utilizing HR expertise, consulting skills, as well as the ability to connect to the bigger picture while diving deep into details and collaborate and consult across many teams, levels, and regions.
Responsibilities
Your typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:
* Consult, coach, and develop leadership through decision-making with empathy and sound judgment; collaborating and actioning on talent management processes, people development, and performance management, compensation, and employee relations issues.
* Foster and role-model an environment of inclusion for all employees.
* Advocate for employees' needs through end-to-end experiences that help employees feel fully engaged in the work they do and valued for who they are.
* Exercise high-judgment, manage through ambiguity, and serve as the first point of escalation for employee concerns.
* Support employee queries and situations with discretion and expertise, navigating policies and applying high judgment as necessary.
* Actively promote adoption of technology and self-service.
* Collaborate and influence multiple levels of the organization, ranging from employees to senior leaders.
* Conduct difficult workplace investigations in collaboration with Employee Relations.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need:
* A bachelor's degree or higher in Human Resources, Labor Relations, Business/Management, Psychology, or a related field.
* 5+ years of relevant Human Resources Generalist experience.
* Experience working in a matrixed organization.
* Coching and consulting skills.
* Strong business and HR acumen, including strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and analysis, experience consulting on complex performance management cases.
* Employee Relations/Investigations experience.
* Possess conviction and tenacity, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Thrive in a high-pressure, ambiguous environment, and able to manage multiple simultaneous priorities.
* Intellectual curiosity, brings insight to the team and business.
* Ability to demonstrate high-judgment, empathy, autonomy, and flexibility.
* Ability to maintain strict confidentiality regarding employee issues in Human Resources.
* Work Councils or other Employee Representative Bodies (ERB) experience.