Senior People & Culture Partner

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Service Operations North America (SONA) is a part of SO&T and has about 1,000 employees across the United States and Canada. Weoperate the Central Distribution Center in Byhalia, MS as well as Regional Distribution Centers across the NA region. The Byhalia CDC is a 1 million square foot facility located approximately 25 miles southeast of Memphis, TN and employs 500+ employees.

Mission/Purpose of the Position

The Senior People & Culture Partner is part of the Byhalia People & Culture function. This is an individual contributor position which serves as the senior People & Culture (P&C) Partner within the Byhalia operation, providing human resources guidance and expertise to the rest of the P&C team, while also working closely with the operational leadership to support the overall business objectives by providing expert human resources insight and strategy.

To be successful in this position, you are a visionary and inclusive leader with a strong ability to influence and inspire others. You demonstrate strong courage to challenge and develop, and you truly embrace and live our leadership principles: to lead with passion, perform with purpose and transform with vision.

This position reports to the People & Culture Manager of the Byhalia CDC and is based full-time on-site in Byhalia, MS.

Essential Functions

• Oversee and implement human resources initiatives and practices that foster growth, innovation, organizational effectiveness and employee relations that align with business strategies in areas including: talent acquisition, employee development, and performance management.
• Actively partner with business and operational leaders in order to fully understand their challenges and to develop an effective strategy to support their objectives.
• Act as a change agent to drive a continuous improvement mindset in a culture of high performance and accountability.
• Advise and coach people leaders and other P&C partners on workforce-related issues.
• Coach managers on how to deliver effective performance management, compensation, and career development dialogue and provide training as necessary.
• Partner with teams to develop cross-functional and operation
  -wide initiatives to bolster retention and increase employee engagement.
• Lead the Compensation Review process and be an expert on Volvo compensation philosophy and practices.
• Lead the People Growth and Succession Planning processes, and be an expert in relation to the potential and performance assessment of employees and the subsequent development plans created to close identified competency gaps.
• Champion the Volvo culture as well as assure alignment of management actions with Volvo Group values and principles.
• Partner with central P&C functions per the service delivery model.
• Special initiatives, projects and other assignments as directed by the P&C Manager.
• Lead and act according to Volvo values.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or a related field required. Advanced/graduate degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of Human Resources experience required, preferably working in a distribution/manufacturing environment.
• Human Resources professional certification highly preferred.
• People leadership experience a positive.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change, set demanding targets and motivate teams and individuals to deliver outside of their comfort zones.

Necessary Competences,

Skills and Abilities

• As all documentation is in English, proficiency in the English language is required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to network effectively across a diverse organization and build enduring relationships across functional and geographical areas.
• Thorough knowledge of US employment and labor law, as well as HR professional practices.
• Str…