Senior Director Culture + Justice; f​/m​/d

Patagonia is an outdoor apparel company founded in 1973. At a time when all life on earth is under threat of extinction, we aim to use the resources we have—our business, our investments, our voice and our imagination—to influence changes needed to protect our planet. A registered B Corporation and founding member of 1% for the Planet, Patagonia is recognised internationally for its commitment to product quality and environmental activism, contributing over $145 million in grants and in-kind donations to thousands of grassroots environmental groups around the world.

We’re in business to save our home planet. This role is responsible for the EMEA people and organization strategy, overseeing all aspects of the employee lifecycle to deliver effective, equitable, people-minded, and compliant practices, while stewarding an entrepreneurial spirit and Patagonia’s flair. Partnering closely with the EMEA Leadership Team, this role translates business needs into people practices, drives organizational effectiveness and employee experience, cultivates conditions for a vibrant culture, and builds long-term capabilities to enable our goals, drive quality growth and impact, and uphold our purpose and values across a multi-country footprint.

As a member of the EMEA Leadership Team, this role transcends functional strategist responsibilities to collaborate with the ELT on leading Patagonia EMEA. This role is an enterprise collaborator, accountable for co-building high level strategy with the ELT, translating strategy into executional plans and implementing them with key stakeholders, taking decisions for Patagonia EMEA that have long-term impact, and shaping culture and organizational success.

• People, Culture + Justice organization: build the PC+J organization, managing resources and shaping culture and ways of working for innovation, co-creation and cross-functional collaboration, scalability, and nimbleness. Lead, manage, and develop an engaged and high-performing team through clear priorities and goals, feedback, and regular coaching and mentoring, to nurture leadership, enable professional development, drive clear accountability, and deliver objectives.
• People, Culture + Justice strategy: shape the people and organizational strategy, in integration with EMEA long range strategic planning and stakeholders, and in alignment with global PC+J agenda, to enable EMEA business and impact priorities and goals. Translate the strategy into an actionable roadmap and tactics and oversee the execution, ensuring quality and consistency of delivery and service.
• Organizational effectiveness
  : manage, plan, and evolve strategic workforce planning, staffing budget forecasting and management, and change management practices to enable nimbleness, resilience, and efficient and effective use of our resources. Advise on, plan, and evolve organizational structures with agility. Enable our business to deliver on our goals and our purpose and be financially healthy while preserving Patagonia’s values and nuanced ways of operating.
• Culture, justice, and employee experience: cultivate the conditions for a vibrant, inclusive, entrepreneurial, and collaborative culture that resonates across a multi-country region, where every employee can feel connected to our purpose, collaborate effectively, be empowered and rewarded to innovate and do their best work, and have impact. Advance justice and equity, diversity and belonging, activism, connection to sports, and wellbeing across the employee experience and journey, through PC+J programs, practices, services, and policies.
• Development, growth, and leadership
  : ensure the organization is equipped with the right skills and capabilities and nurtures our culture to succeed in the short, medium, and long-term and serve our purpose. Orchestrate and lead our efforts to attract, develop, and retain people, and provide mobility and growth pathways. Prepare for the future and enable business continuity and resilience by cultivating current and future leadership aligned to our values, planning, developing, and managing talents, and planning succession in critical roles.
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