PXT Principal, ATS

Description

The location for this role is flexible and can be based: London, Barcelona, Luxembourg, Prague or Munich

The Amazon HR team is passionate about business partnering in its truest sense. Reporting to the HR Leader for ATS across the EU, you will play a critical role in developing and delivering the HR plan for a dedicated business across a number of regions in Europe. You will work closely with the senior leadership teams and the wider HR team, utilizing your excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills to lead a team of HR business partners, drive employee engagement and manage change.

Key job responsibilities

The Principal HRBP works as part of the regional senior leadership team, developing and delivering strategic HR plans and ensuring the effective delivery of an excellent, customer-focused HR service to the operations team. The Principal HRBP manages a small international team of HR business partners and is an integral role in the EU HR leadership team. Responsibilities include:

Recruitment and Selection

As an Amazon Leader you’ll be passionate about Hiring and Developing the Best – it’s one of our Leadership Principles. You’ll be involved in shaping and recruiting your own team and senior operational leadership roles, identifying those who can become true Amazonians. You will also partner the EU Talent Acquisition team, helping them to further develop the recruitment plan, the employer brand and constantly innovate to ensure the business area remains an employer of choice.

Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is at the heart of everything we do. We care about our employees so that they can care about our customers. You will take Ownership for ensuring that fair, consistent and transparent employee relations processes are applied to this business area, making it a great place to work. You will lead and partner projects to develop and implement employment policies and procedures, Thinking Big about international integration. You’ll Earn the Trust of Others by forming strong relationships with operational leaders and with HR peers, allowing you to ‘monitor the pulse’ of employees and from there drive continuous improvement in engagement. Your expertise in the field will allow you to support and advise your team and your customers on complex ER cases, Insisting on the Highest Standards in case management.

Talent Management & Succession Planning

Our Talent Reviews ensure that the great people we employ are developed and grow within our business. You’ll be the leader of talent development across the business area and utilize talent tools and the information they generate to identify leaders of the future. You will take on the role of a coach and will work closely with your senior leaders and the HR team, mentoring and supporting them in the achievement of their personal goals and those of their teams. Partnering with the EU talent development team, you will identify the learning interventions required for site leadership teams.

Organization Design & Development

As part of the senior leadership team in this growing business you will use future forecasts and plans to anticipate, design and implement org design mechanisms which allow the business to grow gracefully, deliver ambitious goals, and ensure an exceptional employee experience.

Generalist HR

As an experienced senior generalist, you’ll lead and inspire your team. Your open communication and credible decision making will help Deliver Results at a fast pace; you’ll definitely be someone with a Bias for Action. Most importantly, you’ll be fair, pragmatic and commercial - someone who is proactive, who enjoys being visible and delivering tangible results to your customers and the business as a whole.

The successful candidate will be progressive, hands-on and customer-obsessed with the credibility and gravitas to succeed in a fast moving and customer-focused commercial environment.

A day in the life

As a Principal HRBP you will partner with the senior operational teams in ATS, operating with high levels of autonomy. You will have exposure to many different aspects of the business and have the opportunity to lead on international HR projects. You will also be expected to build and lead a team to support a growing international organization.

Whatever you focus on, it will all be aimed at delivering the highest quality service to our internal and external customers.

About the team

Business Area: Operations – Amazon Transportation Services

ATS (also known as the ‘Middle Mile’) supports Amazon operations to deliver to the customer. Take a look here to learn about Amazon Transportation Services

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Prague, CZE