About Amazon
Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.
Amazon currently has presence in India (www.india.amazon.com) by way of Development Centers across three locations; Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, which works on complex technology and operations challenges that directly drive business on Amazon.com. In addition to this, there are retail teams that strive towards providing world class customer experience to our customers across www.amazon.in and www.junglee.com, followed by a dynamic operations team that ensures customer orders are fulfilled and delivered on time.
Summary Description
Success in this role will require influential partnership with middle and senior management within the organization to execute the HR strategies that foster organizational and people effectiveness. The individual in this role must understand business priorities and translate them into an HR agenda that supports the business as it grows. Additionally, the individual in this role is accountable for partnering with leadership to teach, coach, and cultivate the Amazon culture by ensuring the Leadership Principles are taught, lived, and integrated in each component of the talent system at Amazon.
*Amazon Operations and Distribution is a 24/7 environment and shifts may change due to business needs. Full shift flexibility including holidays, nights and weekends is needed for this role.
Key job responsibilities
To succeed, you will need a flexible skill set, including the ability to think strategically, execute tactically, and collaborate across many teams, levels, and situations.
- The ability to lead, develop, and inspire a team of HR professionals in a high growth, rapidly changing environment
- The ability to understand business goals as well as design and implement new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements in business objectives.
- The desire and ability to be an influential and credible senior HR leader within the team, including setting the tone, agenda, direction and providing the necessary support, follow up, and leadership to ensure the team achieves desired results
- Understand the entire talent system and each stage of the employee lifecycle and applies that understanding to craft integrated solutions that are thoughtful and reinforced talent programs.
- Solutions focused and work in an environment which demands deliverables along with the ability to identify problems and drive appropriate solutions
- Operates with autonomy and discretion; A true hands-on approach as well as the ability to successfully monitor the "pulse" of the employees to ensure a high level of employee engagement
Experience with rapid and complex changing work environment
- Proven skill in the operation and utilization software such as Microsoft Word for Windows, Excel, etc.
- Able to travel, as appropriate
- Ability to analyze organization and individual needs and create the most cost-effective package to meet them
- Experience with assessing executive talent and filling technology/operations/management positions
- Proven understanding of the role and functions of a human resource office within a corporate operations structure
- Broad experience and specific knowledge of human resource theory, functions and practice; performance appraisal systems and staff development
- Proven ability to use initiative in carrying out tasks
- Proven ability to prioritize tasks and to organize workload to assure that short timelines are met while having frequent interruptions · Exposure to multi-state and international employment laws
- Candidates should have a min work experience of 3 years in relevant HRBP domain
- HRBP / Mfg. HR experience is a mandate, experience in employee relations, adept at HR statutory compliance, performance management, talent management, HR projects, succession planning, etc.
- Education: MBA or Master's Degree in HR/Social Work/ from B schools