Strategic People Business Partner GEC

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Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Strategic People Business Partner Resilience. This position is based out to any Arcadis GEC offices, preferably India. 

As a Strategic People Business Partner, you will establish trusted and influential relationships with the business area leaders on strategic people priorities and provide front-line advisory on people initiatives and programs with a strategic people or business impact.

Role accountabilities:

Act as a Strategic Business Partner to support the GEC Resilience leadership team

The Strategic People Business Partner will establish trusted and influential relationships with the GEC leaders on strategic people priorities and provide front line advisory on people initiatives and programs with a strategic people or business impact. They will also collaborate with other business partners and people services teams to deliver the total employee experience within the assigned GEC GBA team. The role will work with the Global People Director, GOPS & Enabling Functions to build an inclusive high performing organization, in line with the strategic people and culture direction. 

In more detail, the Strategic People Business Partner will:

Workforce solution leader 

Work strategically with business leaders to identify and select creative and inclusive capability, well-being, culture, and talent development focused solutions to key business challenges, co-create the solutions and deploy them in a pragmatic way with the local people services team. This needs to be done in line with global Centre of Excellence (COE) direction.  Work with our leaders, COE leads and People services to define people priorities that align with the experience we want to create for our people and support the design and delivery of related People function policies, processes and programs. Support and champion standardization of ERP set up in line with the global approach and to implement a global way of working. Develop for the future assist in the execution of strategic workforce planning across the function and participate in selection/ promotion decisions to ensure that our people have the necessary skills and understanding to deliver the team's objective. Plan, forecast, coordinate and broker customer focused People programs and solutions that are linked to business outcomes and impact realisation of the business strategy.  Support the implementation in country global approaches to learning culture, learning journeys, competency frameworks and development curriculum to promote individual and team learning.  Support the Global People Director, GOPS & Enabling Functions to create the People plan in support of business area strategy ensuring cross-business area consistency through collaboration COEs and enhanced the country employee proposition.  Manage strategic relationships locally with internal / external providers to optimize holistic solutions.

Strategic Barometer and proactive advisor

Consult with the business and challenge them on strategic organizational and capability issues that contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the business and deliver an excellent employee experience on the moments that matter for the function workforce that is consistent across Arcadis.  Responsible for articulating and advocating business unit needs back to Global People Director, GOPS & Enabling Functions. 

Insights expert

Use analytics to bring proactive business insights to the People team, and people insight to the business to drive innovations and make data driven people decisions in partnership with People Analytics team. Taking a more holistic view of the business to provide feedback on People function policies, processes, and programs. Ensure regular employee listening is conducted and followed-up with adequate action plans through Arcadis Your Voice.

Organization Effectiveness & Transformation Leader

Facilitate discussions around change, culture and transformation. Ensure all annual People processes and programs such as GPS, talent reviews, salary review are delivered within the function and in collaboration with People services and COE leads. Work to improve the effectiveness of people metrics in their function, aiming to increase retention and engagement. Give feedback to People Services by suggesting improvements in the efficiency and quality of people services support.  Provide direction on high level change programmes, ensuring compliance with legislation and alignment to business sector objectives and strategic direction of the business area.  Work with Employee Relations team (where available) to support management of high-risk complex case work providing commercially sound advice whilst minimising impact to the business.

Leadership Talent Coach

Develop and challenge leaders and managers to execute against organizational talent needs and in line with our aligned leadership framework. Work with the TM COE and leaders to identify and develop their talent and ensure we enable career defining experiences for all our people e.g., learning resources, peer to peer learning, mentoring, job shadowing, projects, and the need for belonging etc. Create, enable, and facilitate an environment where our people are encouraged and supported (with an appropriate level of challenge) to realise their potential and take control of the direction of their careers.  Working with the COE, engage with the business to build a sustainable future for Arcadis through capability building aligned to strategy and function-specific capabilities.  Provide leadership, advice and services within countries (and sometimes across multiple locations) to enhance the effectiveness of the workforce through identification of key people needs and management support, coaching and development.

Culture Champion 

Build and strengthen our culture by advocating the organizational values, our purpose and challenge leaders on their accountability to ensure everyone is demonstrating and living by the right behaviors.  Communicate and engage with our people on values and behaviors develop and implement interventions and people process changes to close gap between our current and target culture from a function strategic perspective and in alignment with COE strategies and programs. Advance positive culture change (e.g., establishing role models, system changes, training, communication) based on a data- driven insights in culture, with support of the function Leader. Create a collaborative culture for resource sharing and capability building, maximising access to our internal Talent Market, through career development and knowledge-sharing programs and training to ensure clients receive best-in-class expertise and support. Work with the COE - Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging to deliver interventions to raise awareness, encourage open and honest conversations and allow our people to be themselves at work making the connection that Arcadis strives to be a diverse, inclusive and equitable employer.

General 

Play a key role in the People BP network and takes an active role on group wide People projects as agreed with the Global People Director, GOPS & Enabling Functions. Line management of any people business partners.  Role Model the Arcadis Way in the function. Act as a visible steward of health and safety and ensuring familiarity and compliance with Health and Safety regulations and guidelines.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications: 

A degree (preferably in human resources) or equivalent work experience Experience in business partnering roles

Preferred Qualifications: 

Experience of project business and driving change and transformation. Broad knowledge of all major components of People related functions, employee/labour relations, management of change, diversity and Inclusion, compensation, benefits and Talent development. Consulting agility, with experience in independently using Microsoft programs (Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, One drive, Power BI) as well as using data analytics to align HR solutions with business imperatives and ability to work in an agile way. Business Fluency with financial acumen and operations knowledge, with a focus on business outcomes.  Acts with integrity, impartiality and independence, balancing personal, organisation and legal parameters.  Stakeholder management and the maturity to deal with senior business managers. This includes being confident in hearing strong management opinions, ability to influence to better outcomes and at times even challenging their decisions.  High level communication skills strong consulting, coaching and presentation skills, with the ability to move between listening to, guiding and coaching others.

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