Senior Tms Business Partner - London, United Kingdom - Whole Foods Market
Description
Responsibilities:
- Builds strong business acumen.
- Ability to understand P&L and retail / functional knowledge.
- Engages with functional leaders.
- Provides TMS system and process support and advice across broad segments of the company.
- Participates in the development of Business Partner / Generalist strategy, ensuring that delivered services support the company's vision, anticipated growth, values, and operational objectives.
- Consults with business leaders on talent, leadership, people strategy, organization development, rewards, and culture.
- Engages with client leadership from a strategic and operational perspective, proactively assessing business risk and developing recommendations for mitigation and ensuring adequate planning to address anticipated future changes.
- Ensures dynamic assessment of organization capability, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, on a forwardlooking basis.
- Proactively works with client and TMS organizations to clarify current and anticipated workforce capability gaps and how those gaps may be closed.
- Recommends new approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvement in development and delivery of TMS services.
- Makes sound policy interpretations and practice decisions; provides client advice to ensure adherence to company policies / practices.
- Provides assigned client teams / leaders with training, coaching, and advice to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Reinforces difficult decisions that align organizational strategies and values.
- Applies data, evidencebased research benchmarks, and TMS business metrics to match business decisions.
Skills:
- Leverages indepth understanding of Human Resources concepts, practices, programs, and methodologies.
- Indepth understanding of company Human Resources policies, practices, and expectations.
- Indepth knowledge of labor issues including FMLA, ADA, HIPAA, and Leaves of Absence.
- Indepth knowledge of federal, state, and local Human Resources regulations and how these affect and are applied within WFM.
- Indepth knowledge of HRMS systems and programs.
- Indepth skills in change management.
- Solid computer skills, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Kronos, Workday, and other HRIS.
- Creates a reputation of communicating effectively with internal stakeholders, external vendors, and partners.
- Recognizes potential people and organizational issues in a proactive manner, either resolving the issue or referring to higher levels.
- Mediates difficult interactions, escalating problems as appropriate.
- Is recognized as a neutral and approachable TMS professional.
- Derives evidencebased insights to recommend changes and influence leadership decisionmaking.
- Differentiates best practices that will work within the organization.
- Executes case and pilot studies to evaluate and address specific problems and questions.
- Possesses clear understanding of WFM's business objectives, competitive strengths, and opportunities.
- Understands industry trends and emerging challenges from the perspective of people and organization management.
- Demonstrates excellent knowledge of the WFM product mix, supply base, and retail operations.
- Understanding of business KPIs and how people strategies impact and support the achievement of objectives.
- Able to play a key and influential role working with others, in groups, in crossfunctional settings, and with diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
- Models commitment to customer service.
Education & Experience:
- BA/BS degree and 46years' relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
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