People & Culture Business Partner

At Burton, we are a purpose-led brand rooted in snowboarding and the outdoors. We fight for the future of our people, planet, and sport. We aim to maximize our positive social impact and minimize our negative environmental impact while delivering high-quality performance products.

As a global leader in snowboarding, we’recommittedtodiversity, equity, and inclusion for the long-term health of our company, sport, and community. Through these efforts, we aim to make snowboarding and the outdoors accessible to all.

This is an exciting and challenging role on Burton’s People & Culture team to help build Burton's culture and workplace practices and enable Burton to achieve its strategic business and purpose goals. This role serves as a strategic business partner to one or more functions within the organization, with primary responsibility for employee relations, talent management, and recruiting. Acting as an extended member of the team and a trusted advisor to Senior Managers, this position plays a key role in aligning people strategies with business objectives.

In addition to these core responsibilities, the role also supports performance management, employee development, and the implementation of organizational design initiatives. The position will proactively address a wide range of P&C needs, and help Burton build toward fostering a workplace culture of high performance and belonging.

The BP Team is led by the Global Head of P&C Business Partners and includes several Business Partners assigned to specific functions and/or regions. Burton’s BPs are the primary points of contact and relationship-holders with functional leads and Burton employees. The P&C Talent, Total Rewards and People Operations Teams provide subject matter expertise and strategic direction and for the BPs in the design and development of shared tools, frameworks and systems.

The BPs work as a close team deploy these tools within their respective assigned functional/regional areas of responsibility and share best practices within the BP team for continuous improvement of employee relations.

(For all items listed below: ‘In assigned functions/regional areas…’)

• Provide strategic partnership with assigned business leaders to deploy talent management and employee relation strategies that help deliver on the chosen company strategy, functional priorities, and that deliver against People & Culture objectives and priorities.
• Provide a full range of P&C expertise, services and solutions to leadership and employees, including recruiting, talent management, employee engagement, organizational design and development; collaborate with Talent, Total Rewards, and People Operations teammates to deploy compensation, performance management, employee development, and employee relations tools.
• Partner with the Head of P&C Business Partners and Director of Talent to ensure the successful and complete deployment of Burton’s performance management and talent systems, ensuring regular, transparent and effective communication between managers and employees regarding performance and development.
• Ensure all staffing needs are identified and resourced, including the effective and timely recruiting and onboarding of new external talent, and the advancement, development, promotion, and/or internal transfer/movement of existing internal talent, all with a focus on attracting and retaining top talent, and building and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce.
• Work in close partnership with leaders and employees to assess and elevate levels of employee engagement.
• Act as a culture ambassador and champion, fostering greater levels of diversity and inclusion, and creating a workplace culture where all employees feel welcome. Partner with the Director of Justice, Equity Diversity and Inclusion to ensure BP activities support Burton’s JEDI strategy and deliver on JEDI best practices
• Partner with the Head of P&C Business Partners and Director of Talent to provide coaching, tools and mentoring to employees to assist them in creating and owning their development plans.
• Handle a range of employee relations issues with professionalism and…