Please note that this is 12 month FTC contract
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced HR generalist to join our growing team of HR Regional Partners, based in EMEA. If you would like to join an innovative and customer-obsessed HR team, striving to be Earth’s Best Employer and offering strong career growth opportunities, please read on for more details!
Amazon HR Regional Partners (HRPs) in the EMEA region act as consultants to more than 4,000 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 practises across EMEA, due to our extensive insights across business lines.
Key job responsibilities
Here are some of the key topics the HRP team support with:
• 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 disciplinary and grievance 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.
A day in the life
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree or above in human resources
- Extensive experience in Human Resources
- Strong knowledge of Spanish Employment Law and/or Spanish Employee Relations
- High proficiency in Spanish and English
- Strong HR acumen, including strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking and analysis
- Experience working in a highly matrixed organization
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working in a fast paced, quickly changing or international environment
- Experience coordinating cross-functional inputs, meeting deadlines, and effectively managing competing priorities
- Project management and the ability to deliver, with a proven track record of influencing through data-driven recommendations
- Strong communication skills, coaching and consulting skills
- Experience in labor relations and management of Works Councils (Comités de Empresa) or trade unions, including participation in consultations, negotiations, and compliance with collective bargaining obligations.