HR Business Partner

The Role

Green Thumb is looking to strengthen our Shared Services (Joint Services as we call it at Green Thumb) HR team with an experienced HR Business Partner who brings a strong background and interest in our high-growth, public company. This is a critical role within the Joint Services HR team to partner and collaborate with the People and the leadership team of at minimum two large Business Units to build and strategically support their respective organization (structure, talent, culture) that aligns to the company’s priorities This role will drive change management, coach leaders through process implementation with a focus on building a high-performing and engaged teams.

We are looking for someone with both deep and broad business and HR experience with a track record of developing cultures of engagement across a highly dynamic and evolving business. Along with demonstrated skills and experience, we are looking for a leader who welcomes solving challenging problems, has exceptional business judgment and relationship skills, and enjoys hands-on connection to the field teams.

Roles

• Inspiring: Open and transparent communicator. Easily connects with employees at all levels. Inspires action and growth, has humility and good humor. Presents themselves as optimistic and can-do. High EQ.
• Leading Change; Influencer: Demonstrated capability to support both teams and individuals through growth. Able to quickly understand both the intended and unintended consequences of each decision. Understands how each situation and decision fits into the strategic plans.
• Highly Adaptive: Thrives in environments that are fast-paced and ambiguous, where priorities can change quickly requiring quick response.
• Competent and Confident: Brings broad business expertise and perspective/opinion on people strategy, programs, and practices. Unafraid to hold a different opinion and can challenge constructively and effectively.
• Initiator and Driver: Brings appropriate focus and urgency to opportunities without losing sight of the big picture. Maintains focus on doing the work that matters – delivers high output and quality.
• Coach:Ability to build and maintain trusted relationships, provide feedback and meaningful support to continuously improve the leaders and culture. Experience and background in effective training and development approaches. Active leader – supporting large, complex departments and/or national footprint.
• Relationship- and Bridge-builder: Prioritizes building relationships and establishing a strategic communication loop between the People team (Centers of Excellence) as well as the Joint Services HR and Talent Acquisition team and Leadership at various levels of the Business team.
• Data-Driven: Effectively interprets, synthesizes, and utilizes data to make and/or recommend decisions that align with the Company and Business priorities, specifically as it relates to hiring, EEO, and turnover data. Can speak to, present and build data insights confidently.

Responsibilities

• Partners with the People team leadership to propose and execute on people initiatives that align across the organization but are tailored to the specific needs of the Business Unit.
• Serves as the business partner to various levels of leadership including Executive, OpCom members to mid-level management.
• Mentors entry-to-mid-level team members. Provides direction, feedback, and delegates, as needed. Leads within the larger HR team by sharing best practices, insights, and learnings to various members of the team, including but not limited to People Operations and Talent Acquisition team members.
• Partners with the CPO, Business Unit leadership and the other HRBPs, and others as needed (e.g., Legal, Compliance) to identify HR priorities and opportunities to strengthen HR processes including in these areas: Organizational and workforce planning, culture and engagement initiatives, recruiting and pipeline management, onboarding, employee relations, performance management, recognition programs, compensation, M+A support and acquisition integration, policies and procedures, labor relations, compliance, training, benefits.  Looks for opportunities to make processes more strategically meaningful; simplify or automate; benchmark and continuously improve.
• Supports effective leadership development focused on skills used at our locations.
• Supports and coaches leaders in compliance with regulations.
• Provides counsel on escalated employee relations or policy questions for successful resolution.
• Thoroughly conducts and documents investigations, or escalates, as needed.
• Directs the annual review process across the team.
• Executes on one-off projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferred
• 8+ years progressively responsible and hands-on business experience with premier, market-leading companies. Combination of large public companies and high-growth organizations
• Experience in effective partnership with all levels of leadership (Mid-level Managers to Executive)
• Entrepreneurial and pragmatic
• Operationally strong, detail obsessed. Sees the big picture and understands how things connect. Must be able to operate at both strategical and tactical levels and appreciates that sorting the details is a requirement
• Track record of partnering with the leadership team and hands-on execution
• Excellent writing skills – can package ideas simply and persuasively
• Ability to acquire a thorough understanding of the organization's jobs, qualifications, compensation, and administrative practices
• Enjoys spending time with partners and engaging and building relationships with our teams and employees
• Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and can execute amid changing priorities
• Natural rapport-builder with exceptional collaboration, coaching, influencing, and facilitation skills
• Entrepreneurial and innovative, with a client-service and practical approach
• Personal commitment to the highest standards of work product, confidentiality, and integrity
• Proficient in HRIS systems with an ability to quickly adapt to new platforms