In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Workforce Solution Developer: Delivers a strategic workforce plan that directly and clearly links innovative and effective talent strategies with strategic business objectives.
- Assesses strategic talent concerns, risks and opportunities and delivers on the agreed plan that drives solutions to meet the strategic needs of the business.
- Strategic Consultant: Understands the issues facing the business in the present and future.
- Engages with business leadership to ensure the HR priorities are aligned to those strategic business needs.
- Functional Facilitator: Leverages the full HR function to deliver as ONE HR team, ensuring clarity on who is driving what dimensions of work and the expected outcomes and timelines.
- Collaborates with all arms of HR to manage initiatives and regularly review impact and success. Works nimbly to adjust as necessary to enable business success.
- Organization Effectiveness & Change Leader: Partners with the business to identify areas where improvement to the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization is required.
- Is courageous in developing and leading change management initiatives designed to drive the business culture and performance improvements critical for future success.
- Leadership Coach: Invests time and resources into developing authentic and highly capable leaders and are always thinking about ways to bring Cummins values to life.
- Assists leaders in identifying their development areas and building development plans acting as a confidant.
- Contributes to succession planning to identify key and pivotal roles in their area of responsibility, ensuring that any leadership gaps are closed that may arise in the future.
- Culture Champion: Leveraging listening strategies to understand sentiment and drive engagement and connection. Using multiple listening vehicles ensures employee voices are being heard, and visible plans are implemented to drive improvements to the employee engagement, experience, and culture at a site/local level.
To be successful in this role you will need the following:
We are in search of an experienced HR professional with an MBA background, ideally someone who has collaborated closely with senior management in crafting and executing strategies within a plant environment. We are particularly interested in candidates who possess comprehensive expertise in all aspects of plant HR, including Industrial Relations (IR) and HR. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing both non-unionized and unionized labor as a leader, with exposure to the following key areas.
- Business Acumen - Ability to integrate into the business decision making process by applying a relatable understanding of the industry, market conditions, shareholder expectations, business strategies, business value propositions, and key profitability levers.
- Financial acumen - Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
- Data Analytics - Discovers, interprets and communicates qualitative and quantitative data; determines conclusions relying on knowledge of business or functional frameworks; simultaneously applies statistics, data validity, data visualization, and problem solving approaches to effectively extract meaningful patterns and business insights; presents conclusions and outcomes that enable data driven business decisions.
- Strategic Problem Solving - Drives solutions to strategic problems that fall outside of past experience through a top-down, hypothesis-driven approach with frequent iteration that evolved with diverse learnings gathered through the course of the project.
- Strategic Workforce Planning - Leverages business insights, qualitative and quantitative data to develop comprehensive talent solutions that meet the strategic needs of the business; ensures the organization has a diverse and robust pipeline of talent that delivers the necessary mix of skills and capabilities, organizational structures, and talent placement to be successful now and in the future.
- Human Resources Consulting - Collaborates with partners to observe the environment and apply sound judgment informed by knowledge, skills, and experiences to diagnose, identify and optimize opportunities to provide holistic solutions, while balancing the needs of stakeholders, primarily employees, with those of the organization.
- Change Management - Applies the Cummins structured process and tool set for engaging individuals and organizations through change to achieve and sustain business results and outcomes.
- Project Management - Establishes and maintains the balance of scope, schedule and resources for a temporary effort (a project).
- Team Effectiveness Facilitation - Guides team to increased effectiveness through observation, facilitation and application of structured tools to enhance team and individual awareness, resulting in a capability to deliver desired business outcomes.
- Team Effectiveness is part of Cummins leadership development framework which focuses on developing self aware and effective leaders.
- Organization Design - Applies Cummins Organization Design principles and tools, whilst partnering with leaders, to determine the optimal organizational design and structure to deliver on strategic goals.
- Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
- Cultivates innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
- Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Demonstrates self-awareness - Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
Experience
- We are seeking candidates with 15+ years of experience in HR and IR, possessing a relevant degree from a college, university, or equivalent in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
- The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing difficult union negotiations and resolving complex issues.
- We need someone who has acted as a strategic partner in overcoming intricate union challenges.
- Extensive experience in business partnering and managing a non-exempt workforce is essential.
