Employee Experience & Culture
Drive engagement and retention by ensuring site leaders implement feedback mechanisms including Voice of the Associate boards, roundtables, and GEMBA walks. Deliver meaningful recognition programs with budget oversight and execution accountability. Champion safety standards through partnership with site leaders, ensuring consistent execution of safety programs and maintenance of workplace conditions. Maintain building standards through regular inspections and routines. Support community engagement initiatives that strengthen local impact. Monitor employee sentiment through regular floor presence, data analysis, and feedback mechanisms, holding leaders accountable for delivering positive experiences and implementing targeted action plans to strengthen culture.
PXT Leadership
Provide oversight on investigations, corrective actions, and employee relations matters, serving as final decision-maker on high-risk decisions including terminations. Manage escalations as primary escalation point for complex issues, partnering with Regional PXT, Legal, and ER teams. Mitigate compliance risks by establishing early warning systems and making high-judgment decisions that balance policy intent with business needs. Partner with country-level Governance teams and Works Council representatives to ensure effective consultation processes on site-level matters, maintaining constructive labor relations and compliance with co-determination requirements. Lead regional change initiatives through effective stakeholder management, removing adoption barriers and modelling positive behaviours. Foster collaboration between site and central PXT teams, maintaining strong partnerships across functions. Drive adoption and optimization of HR technology solutions to enhance efficiency, data accuracy, and employee experience, developing digital fluency and leveraging analytics for decision-making.
Ops Talent Planning & Org Health
Support long-term business success through leadership development programs and coaching for operations leaders at all levels. Drive workforce and succession planning to ensure pipeline readiness for critical roles. Detect succession risks and implement mitigation strategies. Conduct talent evaluations across hourly and leadership populations, establishing mechanisms for equitable selection, retention, and performance optimization. Manage underperformance effectively, coaching leaders to address performance gaps and build high-performing teams.
PXT Leadership & Org Health
Build a high-performing PXT organization by investing in team development and professional growth. Manage PXT succession planning and promotion decisions, identifying high-potential talent. Create leadership exposure opportunities for team members. Assess team health through engagement metrics and feedback. Manage PXT headcount and resource allocation to ensure appropriate coverage and capability. Translate Amazon priorities into regional execution plans, ensuring alignment between campus operations and organizational strategy.
A day in the life
Your day blends business partnering and leadership with operational execution across multiple sites. You'll partner with Site, Business site and HR Leaders on complex organizational challenges while coaching your team of HR Partners and HR Business Partners to elevate their strategic impact. You'll conduct site walks to assess building standards and safety compliance, facilitate employee feedback sessions, and review operational metrics to identify trends. You'll make high-judgment decisions on investigations and corrective actions, manage escalations, and drive change initiatives at scale. Through data analysis and inspection routines, you'll identify systemic issues and influence central teams on scalable improvements. Success comes from your ability to lead through others, balance competing priorities, and drive measurable improvements in employee experience and business performance across your campus.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Extensive experience in human resources leadership or a mix of equivalent leadership experiences (e.g., operations, customer service, retail, distribution, shipping/logistics, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing)
Fluent verbal and written communication skills in English and German.
Demonstrated success achieving department goals through data-driven workforce solutions and HR metrics
Experience supporting and/or leading employee-focused processes such as onboarding, benefits, investigations, training and/or talent management
Master's Degree or MBA
Experience supporting hourly, front-line and salaried employee populations
Knowledge of employment law, employee relations, and HR compliance
Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing HR teams through effective coaching, mentoring, and people management
Expertise in core HR functions including talent lifecycle planning, workforce management, and organizational effectiveness
Experience resolving sensitive employee relations matters
Experience in implementing solutions that measurably improve employee experience, engagement, and retention
Experience driving adoption of technology solutions, with experience leading teams through digital transformation and process improvements
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