Human Resources Generalist Jobs

Title: HR Generalist

Duration: 8 months Assignment (possibility of extension)

Location: San Francisco CA 94103 (hybrid 1 day per week)

Shift/hours: 40hours/week, M to F

Summary:

The Talent Generalist is an instrumental role in Client’s Talent (HR) model and is uniquely positioned to deliver concrete solutions to Client’s workforce across North America. This role is responsible for ensuring Client Talent services are delivered timely, accurately and with high quality across the entire employee journey. Client’s Talent Generalist team delivers the core components of Talent services, including advising managers and employees on people matters, supporting the planning and delivery of cyclical talent programs, collaborating with EX COEs on global program delivery, partnering with functional experts on research and investigations, and supporting function specific projects, among other responsibilities and opportunities.This is a highly cross functional role and requires strong engagement and partnership with teams across client, including business, EX/HR, and global/regional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Intake, analyze, identify, and execute plans and solutions to effectively address a broad range of employee matters. Collaborate with appropriate EX partners where needed.
• Partner with Business Talent teams on function specific projects.
• Partner with Business Talent teams to support the Employee Experience/People strategy for the defined client group(s). Serve as a key HR point of contact for business team(s) and activities to which the Talent Generalist is aligned and determine the best course of action to address and resolve people matters.
• Advise and coach people managers and employees on matters that require intervention and functional guidance. Help the workforce gain skills to operate effectively as business grows and scales.
• Detect potential trends and patterns to inform organizational insights and contribute towards proactive planning and issue mitigation.
• Partner with EX Centers of Expertise (COE) to plan, manage and support cyclical programs including (but not limited to) performance management, annual compensation reviews, talent reviews and employee listening. Share content and process feedback with COE teams to ensure continuous improvement.
• Understand and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to manage performance, trends and impact.
• Build awareness among managers and employees of EX self-service support. Wherever possible, enable the workforce to effectively resolve inquiries and matters independently.
• Promote, strengthen, and embed Client’s Core Values and Diversity and Belonging across the organization.
• Partner with key functional teams to ensure a stellar client experience including the Legal team to ensure compliance with employment regulations; Total Rewards in relation to compensation and benefits clarity and guidance; Talent Ops on talent processes/projects.
• Gain strong understanding of the business, and business strategies and roadmaps.

Professional Skills & Experience:

• Extremely strong communication (written, verbal and electronic) and relationship building skills.
• Proven problem-solving experience. Strong at analysing and understanding core elements of situations and developing options to solve problems effectively with high quality outcomes.
• Adept at quickly distilling issues and aligning others towards joint goals and outcomes.
• Deep understanding of how business works and how specific business teams and functions interrelate to and drive Client’s one company roadmap and goals.
• Experience influencing, informing, and strategizing with managers and leaders.
• Extremely effective at reading the room to guide business and organizations towards progress.
• Self-directed and extremely effective at collaborating with partners and employees at every level across different teams, functions, and regions.
• Deep experience in and knowledge of core HR disciplines, including HR Operations, Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Employee Relations, Talent Management, Organization Design and Change Management.
• Extremely strong ability to perceive, understand, judge, and come to a reasonable and logical conclusion to enable the best outcome in any given situation.
• Deep sense of curiosity and enjoys learning how things work and delights in solving thorny problems responsibly and creatively.
• Use of data to influence business leaders to make meaningful recommendations with headcount planning, attrition analytics, and employee survey results.
• Strong experience balancing between the big picture and driving deep into details; enjoys and thrives in working “the whole stack” - no assignment is too big or small.
• Well-developed investigative skills to resolve sensitive employee issues.

Education & Requirements:

• 8+ years of progressive HR experience in fast moving, high growth, global company.
• Enjoys having fun doing meaningful work with business clients and colleagues.
• Deep experience/expertise in 2+ functional HR areas (HRBP, Compensation, Recruiting, Employee Relations, Talent Management, etc.).
• Strong commitment to customers and the customer experience (internal and external customers).
• Experience using Workday highly preferred.
• BA/BS degree in HR related field; MA/MS preferred. Educational specialization is highly preferred (Organizational Behaviour, Organization Development, Employment Law, Compensation, Statistics, Business, etc).
• Passionate about travel and how travel works.