Regional People Partner Lead Americas

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We are currently recruiting for a Regional Business Partner Lead (Americas). This role is a key strategic partner to a subset of the business providing on-going advisory to leadership, managers and colleagues enabling commercial and organizational objectives through a strong people strategy. Works closely with senior leaders to develop a people agenda that closely supports the overall aims of the business with a focus on delivery in the following areas: 

• Org Effectiveness & Change Management   
• Talent & Workforce Planning  
• Performance Management, Development & Rewards  
• Employee Engagement  
• Capability Management  
• People Leadership 

What you will be doing:

Proactively partner with key business stakeholders to fully understand their business drivers and objectives. Understand how that translates into required technical capabilities and behavioural needs. Additionally, be a strong supporter and ambassador of the People team initiatives, building the business’ understanding of and commitment to our colleague experience.  

• Influence and inform leadership decision making regarding People and Change implications. 
• Inform leadership thinking on structural effectiveness (spans, reporting levels etc.) 
• Ensure that the business area (organization) is set up for success by increasing our competitive advantage – and delivery on value stream metrics - through proper alignment of talent to business goals.  
• Lead Regional organizational design initiatives. Accountable for the delivery and project management of people change programs and restructurings within their business area, with a deep understanding of the “case for change” while leveraging the appropriate specialists.  
• Lead on proactive talent management, partnering with the business to ensure workforce plan aligns with capability needs, bringing along the appropriate stakeholders and relevant people team colleagues for specialist advisory. 
• Provide support for Mergers and Acquisitions in partnership with Regional HR Managers  
• Drives an advocacy for talent priorities and feedback into commercial planning to give a deep understanding of the capabilities and gaps within the Region 
• Assess workforce readiness (cost, capability, capacity and composition) to inform business decisions. 
• Identify the talent implications of strategic priorities for the Region and business. 
• Build the forward-looking talent plan and maintain org charts via an automated system for the specific business area - including completion of the annual budgeting process with Finance and prioritization of resourcing needs. 
• Partner with Finance and Rewards Specialists to gain a practical understanding of people costs and how that might inform the talent plan and org structures to drive and support strategic workforce planning. 
• Liaise with the Global Director of Talent Acquisition to provide insights on the needs of the business to inform potential internal/external recruitment strategies in the Region. 
• Focus on Senior Leader and Executive Leadership and Development and advise PL&OD on succession planning and high potential development in the Region. 
• Leverage the tools, frameworks and methodology of the Professional Learning & Organizational Development team to create succession plans for critical roles. 
• Leverage frameworks from the PL&OD and Culture teams to ensure effective goal setting and other performance management tools are activated in the business. 
• Collaborate closely with the People Relations Team to keep updated on situations that escalate to employee relation cases as well as updates on policies process, and wellbeing initiatives. Oversee effective resolution of sensitive case escalations. 
• Provide inputs to our Rewards Specialist and support the basic Rewards processes and the long-term evolution of our Rewards function, providing input for region-specific Rewards planning 
• Work alongside the Culture team and the business to facilitate regional level plans to drive employee engagement and DEI initiatives (including the annual Pulse survey) to support continuous improvement in productivity, performance, and culture.  
• Lead on the Analysis trends and analytics to drive the creation of colleague experience programmes, solutions and policies to provide thought partnering and strategic planning with regional business leads. 
• Manage key touchpoints with colleagues around their onboarding, development, performance and off-boarding to drive engagement, leveraging subject matter experts as required. 
• Lead on the maintenance and on-going update of the Capability Mappings for the Region in partnership with key business leaders, using data to thus proactively informing talent plan, learning strategy, career pathways and resource prioritization (i.e decisions to build, buy, borrow, bot…etc.) 
• Lead, Performance Manage, Coach and Mentor a small team of HRBP’s, setting and monitoring clear and stretching targets to drive a culture of high performance and continuous improvement. 
• Work collaboratively and effectively with fellow Strategic People Partners to ensure a coherent and joined up offering to the global business and to ensure effective actioning of People Plans 
• Support the Director of People Transformation as required, demonstrating a solution focused mindset. 

What we are looking for:

• Qualified CIPD member or global equivalent (if applicable) 
• Prior strategic HR experience at a global company, particularly as an HRBP.  Additional Org Design, Change Management or HR Program Management experience is strongly desired. 
• Good project management skills and ability to lead small/medium people scale people change programs. 
• Experience with operating model transformation within a commercial industry  
• Working knowledge of employment legislation and ability to flag potential risks to subject matter experts and knowledge/experience of working with Unions (UK/EMEA Region) 
• Experience working with Director and VP-level leaders as key stakeholders. 
• People Leadership experience 

This role will be required to be in the office 1-2 days a week, in Philadelphia. 

Closing Date 12th September