HR Business Partner

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. That's our story. Make it your story.

This position reports to

Service Manager - LATAM

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop and implement people strategy through the execution of HR processes. Each day, you will provide HR support for a defined team or location, by partnering with respective managers. You will also showcase your expertise by representing HR in the business and establishing strong relationships with all business leaders and employees. The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid This role is contributing to the Electrification Services in LATAM. You will be mainly accountable for: • Supports the Electrification Services LATAM regional leaders covering Marketing and Sales and Service Operations, and serve as the first point of contact for employees & managers and provide leadership, coaching and support for individual employee needs and HR processes. • Provide expertise and guidance in all areas of organization support, including Strategic HR partnership with the Business Leaders and his/her direct reports to develop and execute both long-term and short-term HR strategies that directly support and enable business objectives. • This position will directly support sales, including a strong understanding of the people implications of a commercial organization including go-to-market strategies, territory allocation, sales performance measurement & evaluation, and sales incentive plan design and performance. • Use data and insights to understand trends, uncover issues, and support decision making and work with business leaders, managers, and HR to implement impactful talent initiatives and programs. • Provide timely, effective, and direct coaching to client group people leaders, assisting in the development of world class contemporary leadership skills. • Facilitate performance management process; when necessary, conduct investigations, conflict resolution, employee communications and management coaching within client group. • Partner with leaders, managers, and talent partners on workforce planning, hiring, and headcount management. Specific focus on diversity, consistent with ABB's commitments to expand our diversity footprint.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, Psychology, Business or related field.
• 8 years of progressive HR business partnership experience and solid knowledge of local employment and labor laws to ensure compliance.
• Experience supporting an organization through transformation, including comfort with ambiguity and techniques to support change management.
• Understand the business, think strategically about people, organizational & cultural needs and ability to balance business partnership with employee advocacy.
• Experience providing coaching and feedback to leaders and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Advanced English and ability to travel 10% (national and international)
• Experience in labor law and markets in LATAM countries, and experience leading teams (desirable).

What's in it for you?

• Coaching and mentoring from senior leaders and colleagues
• Get motivated by continuous improvement in what we do and how we do it, bring your know-how.
• Be yourself: join one or many of our Employee Resource Groups and make a difference!

Benefits

• Paid and Unpaid leave opportunities
• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Retirement plan
• Wellbeing program
• Dental insurance
• Flex days
• Employee Assistance Program (PAE)
• Development platforms: Spark, Harvard Manager Mentor and English Learning EF English Live School (EF)

More about us

We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory