Around the world, people, businesses, and countries are striving for a better future. A future that needs power and the right conditions to succeed. We’re the people who keep the lights on and control temperature.
We are hiring a Human Resources Business Partner in our Mid-West/Eastern offices with the expectation of traveling 60% of the time to our service centers - a role that is critical in making sure our customers get the electricity, heating and cooling they need.
Why Aggreko? Here are some of the perks and rewards.
- True Business Partnering opportunity, helping drive performance and being a member of the business leadership team
- Competitive compensation
- Annual bonus program tied to company and individual performance
- Low cost medical plan option available
- Career growth opportunities
What you’ll do:
- Partner with the business leaders to shape and deliver a People Plan for the Sales & Operations teams across North America, which directly links to the delivery of business objectives and enables improved commercial performance.
- Be a key and active member of the Sales & Operations teams across North America business leadership team, contributing to and influencing the development of the business agenda and strategy, providing challenge and consulting support on strategic business, people and talent issues.
- As a key member of the senior business leadership team in your business area(s), be the face of the People Function into the senior business leaders and identify how the people team can best support the achievement of business objectives and maintain/facilitate delivery of the local People Plan.
- Engage with the wider team to deliver interventions both for immediate priorities and proactively planning for tomorrow to anticipate and meet business objectives.
- Produce and present people related MI and business case/cost/benefit analyses to support decision making and targeting of issues.
- Contribute to business analysis; recognizing business trends, their impact on the business, and using this to forecast and proactively avoid/overcome potential obstacles to success.
- Lead change management projects across your areas, identifying when and where additional change management/project resource is required, work with the People Function to identify required resource.
- Monitor and foster talent and plan for succession by facilitating talent reviews, high potential talent reviews and leveraging career path tools
- Using existing & agreed tools and processes, facilitate the forecasting and planning of your business area’s current and future skills and talent pipeline requirements in line with both the local and global business strategy.
- Support leaders to match people’s capability to changing business requirements and conditions by developing and maintaining a workforce plan and making resource projections.
- Act as a trusted advisor for senior leaders; challenge and stretch them to achieve their maximum potential through self-awareness and understanding and, where necessary, challenge them to adapt their behavior.
- Work collaboratively with People Services to use holistic HR data/MI to identify trends and causes, quantify the effectiveness/value of People interventions, forecast the demand of People solutions, and recommend actions required. Feed this into the business to inform workforce planning decisions and update the People Plan accordingly.
- Ensure inclusion and engagement initiatives and surveys are carried out. Drive senior management to focus on the commercial business case for building inclusive, engaged cultures and the importance of their active sponsorship and continuous follow through.
We’re experts, which means you’ll have the following skills and experience:
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Human Resources related field or equivalent work experience
- 7-10 years’ experience in the HR Business Partner role
- Membership of relevant (international) HR professional body/community.
- Experienced People/HR professional, with a proven track record working as a business partner to one or more global business areas.
- Demonstrated experience of all aspects of the role, including best practice and trends across similar and relatable industries, roles, and organizations.
- Strong commercial acumen: with demonstrated experience of developing People Plans based on a commercial understanding of their businesses, their key drivers and the environments in which they operate in.
- Proven track record of working in partnership to measurably improve business performance through the development and execution of commercial, aligned People practices.
- Proven experience of managing international or complex, multi-stranded projects.
- Exceptional customer/stakeholder relationship management skills, including credibility and influencing at a senior level.
- Pragmatic, with a genuine interest in and curiosity about our business.
- A highly collaborative individual, with experience of working in a global, complex business.
- Ability to recognize trends and develop recommendations based on data analysis.
- Experience of having worked in a global People/HR Function
- Experience of leading large scale and complex change projects - in particular, understanding resistance to change and how to manage it.
- Solid experience in influencing, coaching, and consulting with senior leaders
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
- Excellent change management skills
- Effectively present information and respond to questions from management and employees
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and strong prioritization skills
We recruit the best talent. Apply now and help us keep the power on.
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Equity, diversity and inclusion at Aggreko
We welcome people from different backgrounds and cultures, and respect people’s unique skills, attitudes and experiences. We encourage everyone to be themselves at work because we know that’s how we do our best, for each other, for our customers, for the communities where we work, and for our careers.
We are an equal opportunity employer. If you apply for a role at Aggreko, we will consider your application based on your qualifications and experience, and not on your race, colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.