Manager HRBP

Ahold Delhaize Group is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our AD Group is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but AD Group associates also work in all the countries we serve.

This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions.

The HR Business Partner role acts as a strategic partner to the organization, ensuring that HR possesses a deep knowledge of business objectives and that the HR strategy is embedded into functional areas in support of business goals. The incumbent provides strong, consistent HR leadership to the function(s) to add value to the organization using business, operational, analytics, and talent management acumen.

This HRBP role supports all AD Group associates that are based in the US geography, including multiple functions, such as IT, Tax, HR, and Audit.

While involved in many activities that support our business goals, several examples of what the HRBP Manager will be doing align to three core areas:

• Collaborate with the Head of Group People and Organizational Development & Group Functions HR, and the AD Group HRBP Directors (located in the Netherlands) to support and guide the implementation of a strategically focused HR Business Partner team able to provide exceptional analytics-driven support to functional area partners, in support of business goal achievement.
• Contribute to the business strategy by consulting with business functional areas to identify, prioritize, and build organizational capabilities, behaviors, structures, policies, and processes.
• Counsel managers consistent with company policies/practices, legal considerations, compliance regulations, and company priorities—advocating both company and associate concerns.
• Support the business proactively with internal communications, announcements, and associated change management efforts.

• Lead business functions in forecasting and planning their talent pipeline requirements and build strategies for job reinvention as roles are being redefined in line with business strategy.
• Utilize strategic workforce plans to drive inclusive talent recruitment and pipeline initiatives; collaborate with Talent/Learning on new/innovative recruitment methods, such as college recruitment programs, internships and co‑op programs.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment, onboarding and offboarding activities with leaders of respective functions.
• Drive diversity and inclusion within talent acquisition, ensuring a broad slate of candidates for all positions being recruited.

• Provide insights and lead action-planning efforts to proactively increase associate engagement and create an inclusive, performance-driven, and winning culture.
• Define career pathways for advancement and drive development activities (talent and succession planning), ensuring robust IDPs are in place and progressing, especially for associates designated as talent or promo table, focus on inclusive talent development.
• Support the business in determining internal and external learning and leadership development options to address the unique learning needs of their associate base and leadership teams.

• Execute administrative services and HR Support, including design and implementation of locally relevant policies to ensure consistency and relevancy.
• Remain informed of industry and disciplinary best practices and key trends.
• Support the continual monitoring and refinement of the model as needed based on HR Business Partner and business feedback, and evolving business needs.
• Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our Values.

Requirements and other skills an ideal candidate will bring to the job:

• Bachelor’s degree: HR…