Business Partner Leader

Position: People Business Partner Leader
Summary
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Description
As Apple's People Business Partner Leader for Canada, you are an agile coach and trusted community steward to employees, leaders and executives across the organization. Based on the business strategy and a deep diagnosis of internal & external trends, you will build and implement the People Strategy together with your team. You will act as a liaison between Apple’s worldwide people vision and strategic priorities.

You will ensure the specific initiatives and strategies are integrated and complementary to regional and worldwide priorities, and you will drive the adoption of a future-orientated work environment and engagement framework. With this, you are the ambassador of Apple’s global People vision. On a functional level, you will manage a team of People Business Partners to build a successful team with strong business impact and a culture of constant learning.

Your work is systemic and uses resources from Apple’s wider People eco system to facilitate and provide an aligned people vision. You will work as a trusted advisor to senior leaders to create and implement solutions and recommendations in the People space. You are essential in building leadership capabilities and supporting leaders in creating a culture, the organization, leadership styles and the inclusive environment vital for people at Apple to do the best work of their life.

Key Initiatives

Design and implement critical initiatives to meet the short and long term needs of Apple Retail and our corporate site strategy in Canada

Create an exceptional employee experience, build a plan for it through data and observation

Consistently assess the organizational effectiveness of all aspects of the employee lifecycle by collaborating with the vital partners of the wider People team

Operate as an influential member of the Canada Leadership team

This role is for an existing vacancy

Responsibilities

Position the business in the wider context: understands internal & external business operations and accurately anticipates risks, creating strategy that shapes the future and identifies problems that are central to the strategy

Establish relationships of trust by having a proactive point of view by showing a genuine interest in others, acting with appropriate balance of confidence and humility, learning from both successes and failures, demonstrating personal integrity and ethics, earning trust through results, framing sophisticated ideas in simple and useful ways, persisting through adverse circumstances and having a history of delivering results

Enhance ideas and outcomes that may be inherently in opposition of each other: handle tension between high level strategic issues and operational results, between internal focus on employees and external focus on customers, between taking time to bring together information and making timely decisions, between the need for change (flexibility) and stability (standardization)

Developing Talent: developing people to meet both their career goals and the organizational goals; placing a high priority on developing others; developing others through mentoring, feedback, exposure and stretch assignments; encouraging people to continuously learn and develop

Building Effective Teams: building strong teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. Establishing common objectives and a shared approach. Creating a feeling of belonging and team morale. Developing open dialogue and collaboration amongst the team

Collaborates: building partnerships and working synergy to meet shared objectives

Minimum Qualifications

12+ years of experience as a strategic HR Business Partner

Proven track record of people leadership skills

Drive what matters: create alignment and focus; inclusive of connecting People initiatives to strategic objectives in order to drive impact

Resilient and driven: ensures initiatives achieve their full potential, despite challenges or…