Job Description
As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.
I. Job Summary
The Sr. Director, Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) is responsible for providing expertise and guidance in the areas of culture, change management, strategic coaching, talent assessment and development, succession planning, performance management, and organizational design.
Our People function is responsible for partnering with the business to help solve complex organizational challenges, while ensuring we have the right people in the right roles, helping us drive results and grow our business. The HRBP will flex from strategic planning to daily support of designated client groups, while operating as an employee advocate and change agent. They will assess and anticipate HR-related needs, communicate needs to the business units and seek to develop integrated solutions. The HRBP has a business first, HR second mindset.
The HRBP will collaborate with line leaders to ensure that their organizations deliver value to stakeholders by defining and delivering competitive strategies. They help shape the business strategy, conduct organizational diagnoses to determine which capabilities are most critical, design and deliver HR practices to accomplish strategy, coach business leaders to behave congruently with strategy, and develop approaches that achieve shared organizational objectives.
II. Essential Duties And Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.
The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is the management of managerial employees. This includes:
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.
Education and Experience
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click “Apply”.
About Us
ABOUT WM
WM ( WM.com ) is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM’s fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks – the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America – where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company’s sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com .
As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.
I. Job Summary
The Sr. Director, Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) is responsible for providing expertise and guidance in the areas of culture, change management, strategic coaching, talent assessment and development, succession planning, performance management, and organizational design.
Our People function is responsible for partnering with the business to help solve complex organizational challenges, while ensuring we have the right people in the right roles, helping us drive results and grow our business. The HRBP will flex from strategic planning to daily support of designated client groups, while operating as an employee advocate and change agent. They will assess and anticipate HR-related needs, communicate needs to the business units and seek to develop integrated solutions. The HRBP has a business first, HR second mindset.
The HRBP will collaborate with line leaders to ensure that their organizations deliver value to stakeholders by defining and delivering competitive strategies. They help shape the business strategy, conduct organizational diagnoses to determine which capabilities are most critical, design and deliver HR practices to accomplish strategy, coach business leaders to behave congruently with strategy, and develop approaches that achieve shared organizational objectives.
II. Essential Duties And Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.
- Serve as the Sr. HR Business Partner to 2 -3 SVPs and their leadership teams (~15 VPs), by providing strategic and hands-on team support with daily HR needs
- Inform COEs on business needs and deploy core HR initiatives (annual performance review, engagement, talent planning) to assigned client groups
- Create, guide and facilitate workforce planning, succession planning and organization structure input to achieve business unit targets and milestones; integrated partner in the talent acquisition process from recruitment through onboarding; encourage building strength through diversity and inclusion
- Identify strategies to increase employee engagement through effective communication, policies, and practices
- Develop people strategies and create a high-performance culture through talent management, performance management, and leadership development (coach, counsel, career development, performance management)
- Build team effectiveness by developing small scale, organizational interventions specific to the unique requirements of the business unit
- Identify training needs for business units and individual executive coaching needs
The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is the management of managerial employees. This includes:
- Direct supervision of full-time employees, including:
- Indirect supervision of full-time employees.
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.
Education and Experience
- Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Human Resources, Business Administration, or similar area of study, or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant work experience.
- Experience: Fifteen (15) years of relevant work experience (in addition to education requirement) with progressively responsible human resource management roles.
- Preferred: Master's Degree, MBA, or equivalent experience, and fifteen (15) or more years previous experience.
- Certificates, Licenses, Registrations that contribute to Success
- SPHR certification is preferred.
- Key Competencies
- Creating and executing influence strategies that gain commitment to one's ideas and persuade key stakeholders to take action that will advance shared interests and business goals.
- Translating strategic priorities into operational reality; aligning communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.
- Utilizing financial data to diagnose business strengths and weaknesses and identify the implications for potential strategies; keeping a financial perspective in the forefront when making strategic decisions.
- Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups; communicating in a focused and compelling way that captures and holds others' attention.
- Initiating and maintaining strategic relationships with stakeholders and potential partners inside and outside the organization (e.g., customers, peers, cross-functional partners, external vendors, alliance partners) who are willing and able to provide the information, ideas, expertise, and/or influence needed to advance understanding of business issues and achieve business goals.
- Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities
- In-depth understanding of HR concepts and principles gained through formal education and substantial work experience
- Demonstrated experience in making strategic HR decisions, assessing leadership talent and effectively interfacing with high-level business and operations leaders
- Developed (oral and written) communication and diplomacy skill set with the ability to influence others by presenting sound and logical arguments tailored to the audience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to assess situations make judgments based on practice or previous experience
- Coaching and leadership assessment experience
- Approachable and responsive resource able to connect with employees at all levels
- Ability to work in changing environments, see through complexity and strategically promote an inclusive/diverse workforce
- Strong presentation skills and facilitation experience, needed to effectively deliver a variety of HR-related training programs to groups of managers/colleagues
- Capable of handling multiple issues and/or projects simultaneously and executing to completion
- Demonstrated ability to work in a demanding, high performance work environment and team- oriented culture
- Excellent collaboration, influencing, project management, organizational and change agent skills
- Ability to energize and lead in complex, matrix, goal-driven organizations
- Strong internal and external customer service focus, with a genuine desire to assist others
- Passion for innovative HR solutions and process improvement
- Sound knowledge of local labor laws and government requirements
- PHR/SPHR certification
- Work Environment Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc.) most of the work day;
- Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely;
- Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc.) rarely;
- Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements occasionally;
- Normal setting for this job is an office setting however, operational site visits may be required where the incumbent is exposed to weather and areas where large equipment is operated.
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click “Apply”.
About Us
ABOUT WM
WM ( WM.com ) is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM’s fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks – the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America – where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company’s sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com .
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