Senior HR Business Partner

Have significant HR experience as a senior leader, ideally within a high volume, fast paced and customer focussed environment
- Have the ability to develop effective working relationships with employees at all levels
- Have a proven hands-on attitude, be flexible and adaptable.
- Demonstrate the ability to motivate others and influence work behaviours
- Possess strong change management, negotiation and influencing skills
- Have intellectual curiosity, bringing valuable insight into the team / business
- Be experienced in managing a team of HR professionals.

**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. 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
- 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

**Company Culture Steward**:
**Organisational Development and Planning**:
**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.

**Talent Management & Development**:
As a Senior HRBP you will share information and act as a central resource for all talent practices; actively partnering leaders on talent development and performance improvement initiatives. You will also drive, identify and manage forward looking promotions, Senior Manager coaching and development planning in order to aid succession planning and business growth. You will lead the execution of the Talent Review process across site and follow through of outcomes and next steps, preparing managers, providing training/guidance on tools. You will also provide guidance and support to managers on performance related matters in more general terms, ensuring that performance issues are documented accurately within associated tools and progress is reported.

**HR Operations**:
**People Management**:
**People Strategy**:
As a Senior HRBP you understand and are able to communicate the HR vision to team members. You possess intimate knowledge and understanding of all core metrics and are able to translate these for your department of responsibility in order to prepare a reasoned argument in order to influence and drive change initiatives. You are able to assess behaviors and coach indire