Lucas Group has partnered with a progressive retail brand to identify a strong HR leader to compliment their existing HR organization. This newly created role will report to the Executive Director and will lead the employee engagement agenda locally.
The candidate chosen will be responsible for the development, implementation and ongoing management of employee engagement initiatives and projects across the organization. Must have proven HR leadership experience and must possess excellent relationship and communications skills.
Responsibilities:
Leadership:
- Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution- Understands both the Corporate and Retail teams and their inter-dependencies to achieving company objectives. Reviews and benchmarks internal and external environment to improve the HR practices and initiatives.
- Strength in analytics with the ability to measure training ROI and monitor impacts to attraction, retention, turnover and engagement metrics.
- Employee Engagement:
- Proactively analyzes workforce trends and metrics to develop action plans that increase overall employee engagement and retention. Uses data to identify and analyze operational challenges related to the workforce and to develop engagement solutions consistent with business realities. Creates analytical framework to measure success of employee engagement projects and initiatives. Develops and drives Employee Engagement Action Plans.
- Organizational Effectiveness- Analyzes decision-making capabilities related to the leadership and provides recommendations to improve leadership, managerial and supervisory skills to proactively and effectively address workforce and employee issues.
- Total Rewards- Collaborates with the Total Rewards team to ensure rewards systems are effective and competitive.
Talent Management:
- Talent Assessment- Collaborates with the Talent and HR team to provide tools that enable consistent assessments of performance and potential. Has an understanding of talent in the organization so as to develop the right tools. Key partner in career pathing, succession planning and talent mobility.
- Performance Management- Responsible for managing, adapting and monitoring the Company’s Performance Management programs including goal setting, feedback, corrective action, and performance dialogue.
Learning & Development:
- Learning Strategy- Responsible for developing a strategy that identifies the organization’s capability gaps and create solutions to address needs. Build a “learning organization” mentality. Complete thorough needs analysis to identify leadership, management and training opportunities.
- Instructional Design- Understanding of how individuals learn and grow. Ability to design training for diverse audiences utilizing various platforms including stand up delivery, self-study, bite-sized learning. Knowledge of e-learning platforms and other virtual learning opportunities.
- Presentation & Facilitation Skills- Ability to deliver engaging learning experiences that inspire and drive behavioral change. Must flex style to the audience and lead with authenticity.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 8 years of Human Resources business experience and/or Learning & Development.
- Ability to work in changing environments, see through complexity, and strategically promote an inclusive/diverse workforce.
- Significant transformation and change management work is required.
- Skilled in navigating highly complex organizations.
- Excellent collaboration, influencing, project management, organizational, and change agent skills.
- Ability to implement, test and measure the soundness of decisions quickly and easily and change course adeptly if needed.
- Data analytic smarts and the ability to tell a story using objective and subjective information.
- Knowledge of industry trends, competitive benchmarking skills, and ability to apply cutting edge HR practices that deliver business results.
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