Senior TMS Business Partner

Responsibilities

• Buils strong business acumen.
• Ability to understand P&L and retail / functional knowledge.
• Engages with functional leaders.
• Provides TMS system and process support and advice across broad segments of the company.
• Participates in the development of Business Partner / Generalist strategy, ensuring that delivered services support the company’s vision, anticipated growth, values, and operational objectives.
• Consults with business leaders on talent, leadership, people strategy, organization development, rewards, and culture.
• Engages with client leadership from a strategic and operational perspective, proactively assessing business risk and developing recommendations for mitigation and ensuring adequate planning to address anticipated future changes.
• Ensures dynamic assessment of organization capability, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, on a forward-looking basis.
• Proactively works with client and TMS organizations to clarify current and anticipated workforce capability gaps and how those gaps may be closed.
• Recommends new approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvement in development and delivery of TMS services.
• Makes sound policy interpretations and practice decisions; provides client advice to ensure adherence to company policies / practices.
• Provides assigned client teams / leaders with training, coaching, and advice to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Reinforces difficult decisions that align organizational strategies and values.
• Applies data, evidence-based research benchmarks, and TMS business metrics to match business decisions.

Skills

• Leverages in-depth understanding of Human Resources concepts, practices, programs, and methodologies.
• In-depth understanding of company Human Resources policies, practices, and expectations.
• In-depth knowledge of labor issues including FMLA, ADA, HIPAA, and Leaves of Absence.
• In-depth knowledge of federal, state, and local Human Resources regulations and how these affect and are applied within WFM.
• In-depth skills in change management.
• Solid computer skills, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Kronos, Workday, and other HRIS.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree and 4-6 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.