HR Regional Partner
Job Description
Who you are
- We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced HR generalist to join our growing team of HR Regional Partners, based in EMEA
- Master's degree or above in human resources
- Experience in employee relations/labor relations and Spanish labor/employment law
Desirable
- Experience working in a fast paced, quickly changing or international environment
- Experience coordinating cross-functional inputs, meeting deadlines, and effectively managing competing priorities
- Experience in project management including resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status and prioritizing tasks
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
What the job involves
- Please note this is 12 months Fixed Term Contract
- Amazon CorpOps EU HR Regional Partners (HRPs) act as consultants to more than 1400 people managers, based across 20 different countries. Operating autonomously and delivering high judgement advice, HRPs help to enable an exceptional customer and employee experience, as we strive to be Earth's Best Employer
- Amazon HRPs actively collaborate with business and HR stakeholders, including:
- HRBP's who are focused on delivering the HR strategy for the lines of business they support
- Centres of excellence, including Employee Services (who own HR administration), Compensation & Benefits and Talent Acquisition
- Our HRPs have strong knowledge of their country's employment labour law, are skilled in consulting on Amazon policy and build trust by providing high judgement guidance on people related topics
- Amazon HRPs work as 'generalists' across multiple Corporate businesses, partnering with people leaders to provide quick, efficient, high-quality consultation and guidance
- This role is performed through an innovative customer relationship Management tool, which enables this team to be uniquely positioned to identify trending issues and themes through data and inform consequent decisions and initiatives
- The HRP team's role is also to standardise best practices across EMEA, due to our extensive insights across business lines
- Providing guidance to HR Business Partners and Business Leaders on change management initiatives
- Performance improvement processes, both informal and formal
- Complex and sensitive employee issues, including investigations, grievances and disciplinary procedures
- Facilitating development sessions, focused on building manager effectiveness and capability
- Guiding Leaders through the Talent Management and Annual Compensation processes
- Identifying training opportunities to further develop functional and leadership skills
- Supporting Leaders with career conversations and career growth plans
- Managing and engaging with Works Councils (Comités de Empresa), including supporting negotiations, facilitating consultations, and ensuring compliance with labor relations obligations
- Alongside the core case work, the HRP team have responsibility for policy and compliance at country level, which necessitates staying informed about any legislative or Amazon driven updates and utilizing strong written skills to change policy documents
- Additionally, an important part of our HRP team's career development is to participate or lead subject matter expert groups, focused on improving key HR processes (such as Talent or Performance management) across EMEA, or individual project assignments at country, or regional level
Location: Barcelona
Level: Senior and Expert
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
About the Company
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.