People Consultant

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As an Individual Contributor within the People Consultant (PC) function you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering global capability at the center of our next generation HR Operating model. This team is designed to elevate manager effectiveness strengthen employee experience and support a high achievement culture.

This is a unique opportunity to help build and scale a new global function contributing directly to business performance by enabling betterpeopledecisions and delivering high impact employee and manager facing solutions.

About the People Consultant Team

The People Consultant team is chartered to empower andenable peoplemanagers through targeted coaching proactively resolve employee relations risks and seamlessly execute critical HR programs to foster a high-performing compliant and supportive workplace. Responsibilities include:

• Elevate manager decision quality through expert coaching performance management guidance and real-time advisory on complex employee situations
• Translate case insights into scalable solutions working with the HR Leadership team toidentifysystemic gaps and driveimprovements in policies tools training and HR programs
• Act as a critical feedback loop for the business surfacing trends and insights that inform Talent HR and business strategy

• Trusted Advisory & Coaching:Engage as a trusted advisor to coach managers and employees on sensitive work-related issues including performance management conflict resolution and the interpretation of company policy culture and value

• Employee Relations:Triage and support managers and employees resolve issues that do not require formal investigation but are barriers pose concern to morale or company culture. Work with legalonformal investigation close-outs to ensure that coaching and actions arecompleted in an effective andtimelymanner.

• Employee & Performance Management:Assist managersto navigate underperformance including effective documented coaching draftingmanaging performance improvementplansbalancing speedcompliancefairness employeeexperienceand business needs.

• HR Operations & Collaboration:Work closely with the HR Operations team to implement specific HR processes and transactions supporting bothcomplexemployee and manager-generated requests.

• Cross-Functional Projects:Complete ad-hoc projects as needed alongside cross-functional HR/Partner teams occasionally taking the lead on specific projects/programs.

• Relationship Management:Establish build andmaintainstrong professional relationships with various business groups including employees people leaders HR and Legal.

• Experience:5 years of relevant experience working inan employeerelations HR generalist or HR business partner (HRBP) role.
• Issue Resolution:Proven ability to make recommendations and help resolve complex unique andhighly sensitiveemployment-related issues.

  Other Qualifications

  • Legal & Compliance Expertise:Excellent demonstrable knowledge of current employment law relevant employment standards legislation and best practices in Employee Relations policies principles and procedures.
  • Stakeholder Management:Able toadvisea wide range of stakeholders on Employee Relations issues effectively balancing legal compliance with overarching business needs.
  • Influencing Skills:Demonstrateeffective influencing skills to provide swift resolution to complex andhighly sensitiveemployee matters.
  • Collaborative & Independent:Ability to work autonomously while also being an active part of a team environment. Proven success in developing strong professional relationships with peers managers executives and cross-functional teams.
  • Judgment & Decision Making:Ability to use sound judgment to problem-solve make high-stakesdecisions and involve the necessary individuals at theappropriate time.
  • Champions Culture:Champions a high-performance culture by holding leaders accountable reinforcing clear standards and ensuring talent practices enable sustained business impact.