The Role
This leader brings a strong retail HR background and an interest in joining the HR leadership team of a high-growth, public company. Our company has a capable and diverse team of employees across our production, retail, and joint services groups who have joined us through organic growth and acquisition. This is a critical leadership role to support our retail team as we look to rapidly and sustainably scale. You will partner and collaborate with the People and Retail leadership teams to help build and strategically support the Retail organization. We are looking for an HR leader with a track record of developing strong performance, engagement, and development routines across a highly dynamic and evolving Retail footprint. Along with demonstrated skills and experience, we are looking for a leader who can be both strategic and hands on, welcomes solving challenging problems, builds strong relationships and enjoys hands-on connection to the field teams. This position is based at the Green Thumb headquarters in Chicago, IL, with regular travel to our 65+ retail store footprint.
Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior leadership to define the retail organizations strategy and goals; identify ways to support this strategy through talent management
• Serve as the HR business partner to our SVP of Retail, VP of Asset Protection Solutions and Director of Retail Operations (Retail Regional Directors as needed)
• Lead the Retail HRBP team to plan and execute on the Retail talent management strategy
• Drive strong performance, engagement, and development of our Retail HRBP team
• Collaborate with SVP People and peer VPs of HR in Production and Joint services to identify opportunities within our talent management programs/processes, partner with appropriate functional leaders across the People team to address (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent & Org Development, Employee Relations, Communications)

• Support effective and efficient talent attraction and acquisition for our Retail teams in partnership with our Talent Acquisition team
• Collaborate with our Total Rewards team to ensure we have the right Retail compensation and benefits strategies in place to attract and retain talent
• Ensure effective delivery of programs/processes related to employee performance, engagement, and development in partnership with our Talent & Org Development team
• Partner with our Employee relations team to monitor employee concerns and address issues, conduct investigations and coach Retail HRBPs as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or related discipline
• 10 or more years of progressive experience in human resources, retail preferred
• Experience leading HR in a high-growth and dynamic environment
• Strong assessment skills (ability to learn and not assume) coupled with excellent judgement and perspective on human resources opportunities

• Demonstrated ability to build and deliver an HR strategy using knowledge of the organization and its employees
• Passion for innovative HR solutions and process improvement
• Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels, appreciates sorting out the details and impact to teams
• Adept at being a player/coach, jumping in and "doing" as well as coaching the team when needed
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change through strong influencing and change management skills

• Ability to support and coach senior leaders when appropriate
• Experience leading and managing HR teams
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with an ability to package ideas simply and persuasively
• Strong interpersonal savvy, ability to build rapport and effectively interface/collaborate with employees at all levels of the organization
• Ability to travel up to 75% of the time to visit store locations

Additional Requirements

• Must pass any and all required background checks
• Must be and remain compliant with all legal or company regulations for working in the industry
• Must possess valid driver's license

• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age
• Must be approved by state badging agency to work in cannabis industry

Our Mission: To promote well-being through the power of cannabis.
We're humble- We prefer quiet confidence and don't shout about our success.
We're hardworking- We put our heads down and get the job done.
We're grateful- Working in our industry is a privilege and an act of service.
We're transparent- Honest and open communication keeps us healthy as an organization.
We're collaborative- And believe good ideas can come from anywhere.
We have a growth mindset- One that's grounded in well-being.
At Green Thumb we believe that our corporate community should be a reflection of the communities we serve. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity across race, sex, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, experience, and thought-not only because it is right, but because it makes us better. Our mission-the right to wellness-informs our commitment to champion economic opportunities in communities disproportionately affected by the war on drugs through employment and community involvement. Green Thumb is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We can't wait to meet you.
As an employer of more than 100 employees, Green Thumb will be operating in accordance with the Biden Administration's Path Out of the Pandemic should the mandate take effect.