**Career Area**:
Human Resources
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**Role Definition**
Implements HR strategies aligned with business objectives, provides guidance on HR policies and practices, and fosters a culture of employee engagement and development.
**Responsibilities**
- Collaborating with management as a strategic advisor helping identify and prioritize HR initiatives that align with the organization's strategic goals and objectives.
- Aligning HR policies and programs for their business unit or region which promote employee engagement, retention, and performance.
- Acting as a trusted coach providing guidance to leaders and managers on HR-related matters, including performance management, compensation, and benefits, etc.
- Analyzing HR metrics and data to identify trends and opportunities and develop a story to provide data-driven recommendations to senior management.
- Leading team of HR professionals to collaborate effectively with other Centers of Excellence and serve as thought leaders to the business and HR.
**Skill Descriptors**
Level Extensive Experience:
- Explains business issues and trends of own business unit as compared to other business units.
- Demonstrates a big picture understanding of the business, its interrelationships, and priorities.
- Demonstrates strong foundation of business fundamentals, measurement, and business finance.
- Explains advantages and risks of using business simulations for critical business decisions.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Conducts business with one or two other countries.
- Assesses key legal, regulatory, and financial issues specific to a particular country.
- Recognizes behaviors that promote or stunt effective relationships in that country; acts accordingly.
Knowledge of Organization: Knowledge of the organization's vision, structure, culture, philosophy, operating principles, values, and code of ethics; ability to understand the value of aligning capabilities with business goals to support optimal performance.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Aligns own department's plans with enterprise mission and vision.
- Coaches others on organization's philosophy, culture, and history.
- Trains others on the functions, key responsibilities, and practices of multiple departments or units.
- Participates in developing formal procedures and structures for getting things done within the organization.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority.
- Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking substance or impact.
- Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers.
- Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced.
- Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.
Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership
- Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.
- Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence.
- Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transactional, and associated techniques.
- Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.
Human Resources Consulting: Knowledge of HR approaches, tools and technique