HR Partner, BEXT

Amazon Inc.; Berlin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS EMEA SARL (Germany Branch) in Berlin is seeking an HR Partner for the Builder Experience Team (BeXT) to influence the Builder experience through HR initiatives, partnering with leaders across the organization and applying HR fundamentals in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

The BeXT HR Partner will collaborate with AWS business leaders and HR colleagues to implement talent management, performance management, compensation, and employee relations strategies, while representing the company

Qualifications

• Experience in human resources.
• Experience with labor/employee relations.
• Fluency in German.

Responsibilities

• Consult, coach, and develop leadership through decision making with empathy and sound judgement; collaborating on talent management processes, people development and performance management, compensation, and employee relations issues.
• Foster and role model an environment of inclusion for all Builders.
• Advocate for Builders’ needs through end-to-end experiences that help Builders feel fully engaged in the work they do.
• Exercise high-judgement, manage through ambiguity and serve as first point of escalation for Builder concerns.
• Support Builder queries and situations with discretion and expertise, navigating Amazon Policies and applying high judgement as necessary.
• Collaborate and influence multiple levels of the organization, ranging from Builders to senior leaders.
• Conduct difficult workplace investigations in collaboration with Builder Relations.

Skills

HR experience

Labor/employee relations

Fluency in German

Job description

Job ID: 10587912 | AWS EMEA SARL (Germany Branch)

The HR Partner role in our Builder Experience Team (BeXT) focuses on the Builder experience.

You can expect to do the following in your day-to-day:

• Influence change and foster an environment of inclusion for our Builders
• Problem solving and influencing in diverse populations
• Working in a fast-paced and complex changing environment driven by continuous innovation
• Application of HR fundamentals
• Partnering with leaders at multiple levels of the organization to develop forward looking strategies and goals focused on the Builder experience.

Key job responsibilities

BeXT delivers personalized people support to AWS Builders to amplify the voice of the Builder. In this role, you will collaborate with AWS business leaders and other HR teams to innovate, implement, and deploy HR strategies from talent and performance management, compensation, employee relations and other HR functions. You will also represent the company with employee representative boards. In addition, you will provide support to our Builders and their leaders aligned to an AWS business line or region, calling on HR expertise and empathy. To thrive, you will need a flexible skill set, including the ability to pivot through various scenarios utilizing HR expertise, consulting skills, as well as the ability to connect to the bigger picture while diving deep into the details and collaborate and consult across many teams, levels, and regions.

A day in the life

As a BeXT HR Partner, no two days look the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:

• Consult, coach, and develop leadership through decision making with empathy and sound judgement; collaborating and actioning on talent management processes, people development and performance management, compensation, and employee relations issues.
• Foster and role model an environment of inclusion for all Builders.
• Advocate for Builders’ needs through end-to-end experiences that help Builders feel fully engaged in the work they do and valued for who they are.
• Exercise high-judgement, manage through ambiguity and serve as first point of escalation for Builder concerns.
• Support Builder queries and situations with discretion and expertise, navigating Amazon Policies and applying high judgement as necessary.
• Actively promote adoption of technology and self-service.
• Collaborate and influence multiple levels of the organization, ranging from Builders to senior leaders.
• Conduct difficult workplace investigations in collaboration with Builder Relations.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in human resources
• Experience with labor/employee relations
• Fluency in German

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong business and HR acumen, including strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking and analysis, experience consulting on complex performance management cases Employee Relations/Investigations experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; effective communication with the ability to build relationships and influence across a wide set of process partners and business stakeholders
• Thrives in a high-pressure, high-volume, ambiguous environment and able to manage multiple simultaneous priorities
• Demonstrated ability to adopt and apply AI tools to solve ambiguous problems, improve efficiency, and scale impact
• Use of AI and new technology with sound judgement to solve problems, scale impact, and continuously improve how we support Builder

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