What do we offer?
- To be courageous
- To live wholeheartedly
- To keep growing
What do you bring?
- A team player
- A customer-friendly attitude
- A good sense of humor
Why Ahold Delhaize?
- Huge Impact
- Work with fun and smart colleagues
- (Inter)national growth opportunities
How you can make a difference
Ahold Delhaize Group is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our AD Group is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but AD Group associates also work in all the countries we serve. This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions.Â
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The HR Business Partner role acts as a strategic partner the organization, ensuring that HR possesses a deep knowledge of business objectives and that the HR strategy is embedded into functional areas in support of business goals. The incumbent provides strong, consistent HR leadership to the function(s) to add value to the organization using business, operational, analytics, and talent management acumen.
This HRBP role supports all AD Group associates that are based in the US geography, including multiple functions, such as IT, Tax, HR, and Audit.
While involved in many activities that support our business goals, several examples of what the HRBP Manager will be doing aligns to three core areas:
Business Partnering
- Collaborate with the Head of Group People and Organizational Development & Group Functions HR, and the AD Group HRBP Directors (located in the Netherlands) to support and guide the implementation of a strategically focused HR Business Partner team able to provide exceptional analytics driven support to functional area partners, in support of business goal achievement.
- Contribute to the business strategy by consulting with business functional areas to identify, prioritize, and build organizational capabilities, behaviors, structures, policies, and processes.
- Counsel managers consistent with company policies/practices, legal considerations, compliance regulations, and company priorities—advocating both company and associate concerns.
- Support the business proactively with internal communications, announcements, and associated change management efforts.Â
Strategic Workforce Planning and Recruitment:
- Lead business functions in forecasting and planning their talent pipeline requirements and build strategies for job reinvention as roles are being redefined in line with business strategy.
- Utilize strategic workforce plans to drive inclusive talent recruitment and pipeline initiatives; collaborate with Talent/Learning on new/innovative recruitment methods, such as college recruitment programs, internships and co-op programs.
- Manage end-to-end recruitment, onboarding and offboarding activities with leaders of respective functions.
- Drive diversity and inclusion within talent acquisition, ensuring a broad slate of candidates for all positions being recruited.Â
Culture, Talent and Leadership Development:
- Provide insights and lead action-planning efforts to proactively increase associate engagement and create an inclusive,  performance-driven, and winning culture.
- Define career pathways for advancement and drive development activities (talent and succession planning), ensuring robust IDPs are in place and progressing, especially for associates designated as talent or promotable, focus on inclusive talent development.
- Support the business in determining internal and external learning and leadership development options to address the unique learning needs of their associate base and leadership teams.Â
A few examples of other job duties include:
- Execute administrative services and HR Support, including design and implementation of locally relevant policies to ensure consistency and relevancy.
- Remain informed of industry and disciplinary best practices and key trends.
- Support the continual monitoring and refinement of the model as needed based on HR Business Partner and business feedback, and evolving business needs.
- Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our Values.
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Requirements and other skills an ideal candidate will bring to the job:
- Bachelor’s degree: HR Certification preferred.
- 7-9 years in HR, with a working knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines, including compensation practices, organizational diagnosis, associate and union relations, diversity, performance management, and federal and state respective employment laws.
- Strong Analytical & problem-solving skills.
- Project management, process improvement and change management skills with an ability to lead mid to large size cross-functional projects.
- Adopts agile methodology.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills.
- Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills; must be an articulate and persuasive communicator.
- Intermediate Excel and PowerPoint.
- Lead and influence outcomes without authority.
- Proven experience applying and interpreting applicable laws, guidelines, regulations, and policies.
- Ability to acquire a thorough understanding and impact the organization's hierarchy, jobs, qualifications, compensation practices, and the administrative practices related to those factors.
- Experience convincing people, selling ideas, and influencing behavior.
- Informs and/or monitors budget.
- Executive Maturity.
- Business and financial acumen.
- Building and sustaining relationships.
- Consultation skills
- Role model team player
- Ability to interpret information and make business based recommendations
- Ability to travel up to 10-20%
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What’s in it for you?
Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.
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The AD Group sets global strategies frameworks, facilitates the sharing of best practice and encourages economies of scale. Great examples include sharing technology and digital know-how, so we can continue to lead in online and in-store retailing, setting global targets for healthy and sustainable products-including reducing food waste, use of plastics and making our products healthier to use and eat, and championing development for our future leaders-from learning about the digital mindset to leading our stores of the future.Â
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We are an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.
What
matters to us?
Be courageous
"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
Live wholeheartedly
“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
Keep growing
“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
