Senior HR Business Partner, Amazon

EMEA AGS PXT

Salary not provided
Senior level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience of operating at a senior HR level with demonstrated success in meeting exceptionally high standards in a high volume, fast-paced environment
  • University degree in Business Administration, Human Resources or related field is required
  • Demonstrated ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, strategies and initiatives to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity and development of AWS Global Sales HR within the company
  • A true hands-on approach as well as the ability to successfully monitor the “pulse” of the employee and corporate group to ensure a high level of employee engagement
  • Experience with rapid and complex changing work environment
  • Coaching and mentoring experience of Executives and Leaders of Leaders
  • Success in creating and driving effective development, employee relations, retention and reward programs, with a passion for learning and development
  • For us, the culture fit is non-negotiable – you will be Customer Obsessed with the ability to Think Big, Dive Deep and Deliver Results with a Bias for Action
  • You will be comfortable with a high-volume workload and not be afraid to “roll up your sleeves”
  • You will have a strong-solutions focus and be comfortable working in an environment which demands strong deliverables
  • You will be able to effectively collaborate across multiple functions and as part of a global HR team
  • Ability to use data driven analysis to identify problems and build solutions
  • Strong internal and external customer focus
  • Must be able to interface at all levels of the organization and across matrix functions
  • Strong Project/Program Management Skills
  • Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills

Desirable

  • Masters Degree in HR or MBA
  • 10-5 year HR experience, ideally working with Cloud/Tech Sales professionals
  • Experience in managing and leading organisational change, and strategic HR management
  • Key leadership principles for the role: customer obsession, ownership, learn and be curious, earn trust and bias for action

What the job involves

  • Be a core, strategic and trusted member of the AWS AGS PXT team
  • Be responsible for building and driving the people agenda to deliver results including creating initiatives to drive performance and accelerate the growth of the business
  • Lead the annual HR talent management cycle relating to Talent and Performance Management, Compensation Management, Succession Planning, and Leadership Development for the organizations
  • Partner with the business on organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and skills assessment and development

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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