HR Business Partner

Holland America Line has been exploring the world since 1873. Our ships offer innovative features and enriching experiences focused on destination exploration and personalized travel, inviting guests to savor the journey. 

 
We’re looking for an experience Human Resources professional to fill this role. As an HR Business Partner, you’ll be aligned with key leaders across brands and their business units, so it’s important that you have a strong understanding of the business environment and objectives and HR’s role in helping employees and leaders reach those goals. Strong relationship building, collaboration and driving an inspiring and engaged culture are critical to success. In this role, you will need to be seen as and operate as a trusted coach, consultant, and mentor who uses innovative and pragmatic approaches to problem solve and advise through a broad range of human capital needs including Organization Design, Organization Effectiveness, Talent Management, Succession Planning and Facilitation.

Here’s a summary of what Holland America Line is looking for in its HRBP Is this you.  

Responsibilities 

• Provides strategic business partnership to executives focusing on performance management, leadership development, talent management, succession planning and conflict management. 
• Ensures the delivery of industry-leading HR services and innovative organizational development solutions.
• Identifies and deploys impactful people strategies and policies that enable the organization to perform effectively and scale efficiently as it grows. Provides recommendations and coaching to people leaders on behaviors and techniques to achieve leadership excellence.
• Develops programs to increase employee engagement, provide change leadership, talent development, career & succession planning, retention and supporting process improvements
• Partners with members of the HR Team and other cross-functional teams across the areas of Recruiting, L&D, Compensation, and Benefits to ensure alignment on communications, projects and best practices.
• Evaluates inputs to determine possible systemic issues. Implements suggested changes by gathering resources and influencing organizational change. Investigates complex and unique employee issues and ensures appropriate disposition.
• Represents the HR perspective in both formal and informal settings to communicate HR information and initiatives. Influences management decision-making to ensure business success through people and processes. Implements people practices within a work group or organization. Works with organizations to execute long- and short-term strategies involving people policies (diversity, employee engagement, divestitures)
• Actively addresses issues that may impact a larger population and require intervention or process improvements. Suggests necessary changes to mitigate risk and ensure that employee perspectives are considered. Promotes a diverse and inclusive culture by supporting company employee initiatives.
• Engages consistently with our “Culture Essentials” to foster an environment of open communication, trust and respect, where taking reasonable risks and accepting disappointments serves as learning opportunities. Ad hoc projects as assigned

Requirements 

• Bachelor’s Degree in human resources or related field or equivalent work experience
• PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP preferred 
• 6-10 years of Human Resources experience
• 5+ years of experience with coaching at the manager level, focus on performance management, employee relations and data analytics/reporting
• Proficiency in using Microsoft software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Demonstrated project management and change management experience and experience driving programs independently
• Demonstrated analytical and data management experience with experience translating data into action planning
• Must possess strong skills/experience in business partnering
• Effective business acumen skills and abilities that will allow the quick grasp, immersion and understanding of business issues, needs and imperatives
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and delivery with proven, measurable results for managing change.
• Strong talent management, leadership development, performance management, and org dev. experience.
• Demonstrated success in creating an environment of trust with clients where integrity is unquestioned; can effectively utilize negotiation and conflict resolution skills when needed
• Ability to analyze HR metrics for use in developing goals and driving key business strategies and objectives
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and communications skills with all levels of th