This is a 12 months fixed term contract role. We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced HR generalist to join our growing team of HR Regional Partners, based in EMEA. If you would like to join an innovative and customer-obsessed HR team, striving to be Earth’s Best Employer and offering strong career growth opportunities, please read on for more details!

Amazon HR Regional Partners (HRPs) in the EMEA region act as consultants to more than 4,000 people managers, based across 20 different countries. Operating autonomously and delivering high judgement advice, HRPs help to enable an exceptional customer and employee experience, as we strive to be Earth’s Best Employer.

Amazon HRPs actively collaborate with business and HR stakeholders, including:

• HRBP’s who are focused on delivering the HR strategy for the lines of business they support.
• Centers of excellence, including Employee Services (who own HR administration), Compensation & Benefits and Talent Acquisition.

Our HRPs have strong knowledge of their country’s employment labour law, are skilled in consulting on Amazon policy and build trust by providing high judgement guidance on people related topics. Amazon HRPs work as ‘generalists’ across multiple Corporate businesses, partnering with people leaders to provide quick, efficient, high quality consultation and guidance.

Key job responsibilities
Here are some of the key topics the HRP team support with:

• Providing guidance to HR Business Partners and Business Leaders on change management initiatives.
• Performance improvement processes, both informal and formal.
• Complex and sensitive employee issues, including disciplinary and grievance procedures.
• Facilitating development sessions, focused on building manager effectiveness and capability.
• Guiding Leaders through the Talent Management and Annual Compensation processes.
• Identifying training opportunities to further develop functional and leadership skills.
• Supporting Leaders with career conversations and career growth plans.

Alongside this core case work, the HRP team have responsibility for policy and compliance at country level, which necessitates staying informed about any legislative or Amazon driven updates and utilizing strong written skills to change policy documents. Additionally, an important part of our HRP team's career development is to participate or lead subject matter expert groups, focused on improving key HR processes (such as Talent or Performance management) across EMEA, or individual project assignments at country, or regional level.

Basic Qualifications

• Basic qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, in Human Resources or related field
• Min. 4-5 years of relevant Human Resources experience
• Strong business and HR acumen, including strong problem solving skills, critical thinking and analysis.
• Strong communication skills; excellent spoken and written English, any additional languages a plus
• Fluent Dutch spoken and written communication skills
• Knowledge and experience with Dutch labor law
• Drives recommendations and prioritization. Looks to a lead or manager to put decisions into a broader business context.
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization
• Project management and execution skills.
• Coaching and consulting skills
• Thrives in a high-pressure environment and able to manage multiple simultaneous priorities
• Possesses intellectual curiosity; brings insight into the team & business

Preferred Qualifications

• Any additional language is a plus
• Additional knowledge of NLD Employment Law is a plus

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