Senior HR Leader, AWS Industries PXT

Amazon • Detroit, MI

442d • $139,200 - $230,200

About The Position

The Senior HR Leader for AWS Industries will play a crucial role in shaping the people and organization strategy for one of Amazon's dynamic commercial teams. This position focuses on driving business performance through effective HR practices, enhancing employee experience, and ensuring operational excellence in HR processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in human resources or business management
• 10+ years of professional HR or HR management experience
• 10+ years of broad experience and specific knowledge of human resource theory, including employee development and performance appraisal systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with multi-state and international employment laws.
• Passion for data, innovative HR solutions and process improvement.
• Successful record of building and improving operational processes and procedures.
• High proficiency in Excel; proficiency in data visualization tools is a bonus.
• Experience working in a start-up like environment where the pace is quick and responsibilities stretch between strategic and tactical.
• A graduate degree in Human Resources or social science is preferred.
• Strong ownership and attention to detail.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem solving skills, critical thinking, and willingness to be vocally self-critical.
• Able to manage workflow, with minimal oversight, in a fast-paced environment with multiple and sometimes changing priorities.
• Proven ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and make the best use of limited resources.
• Able to identify a business challenge, articulate it into a problem statement and then solve it using data, science and/or art.
• Exceptional analytical skills, comfortable working with large amounts of data and communicating data findings.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to formulate people and organization strategy, mitigate risks, and drive results in a dynamic and often ambiguous high growth environment.
• Work across multiple functions to develop talent and accelerate retention.
• Review and improve processes in partnership with key stakeholders and service teams.
• Work with line managers and employees to address various employee relations issues, operating as a neutral fact finder.
• Lead the annual HR efforts relating to talent and performance management, compensation management, strategic workforce and succession planning and leadership development for respective client groups.
• Drive operational excellence and efficiency in HR processes to enable the organization to hire and develop talent at scale and consistently to Amazon principles.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market location and experience
• Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of total compensation
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree