People & Culture Business Partner Specialist, Retail - Japan

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

You define your role as a strategic partner. You partner with regional managers and our field retail employees to accomplish business objectives , through the application of thoughtful, intentional and innovative people practices. You are an expert in building platforms for people to perform at their best.

Meet Your Future Team:

The People & Culture Business Partner team operates in strategic partnership with the business, to drive the continuous evolution of people practices and foster a culture of belonging that generates high-performance, strength-based teams, and values-based leadership. You will partner with Retail leaders in the application of thoughtful, intentional, and innovative people practices.

If you were the P&C Business Partner Specialist, Retail now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Serving as the main P&C Business partner to our Retail leaders in Japan

• Thoughtfully leading all aspects of the people retail business model

• Supporting retail teams to create a people strategy that builds amazing teams who exceed business objectives

• Fostering, nurturing and evolving relationships that enable rapport, trust and influence throughout the company

• Providing advice and coaching to managers and employees on relevant business and people priorities such as; identifying key talent, succession planning, supporting recognition and rewards, developing objectives, performance management, organization design, workforce planning, learning & development and terminations

• Identifying business and resource gaps and partnership with retail leaders on solutions

• Gathering and analyzing relevant people and business information to identify trends and communicate recommendations to get alignment on priorities and implement improvements

• Ensuring relevant personal-development tools and information for teams and employees are readily available, communicated, and understood – you champion personal development

• Leading and championing companywide P&C programs for the store teams, such as the Performance Review Process, Employee Engagement Survey, and Talent Reviews

• Developing cross-functional projects from scratch and participating in business-wide projects that aim to solve organizational pain points

• Engaging in store and market visits with cross-functional partners to represent talent and P&C data and trends

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Creating ‘out of the box’ P&C solutions to meet the business needs.

• Leading organizational design in partnership with senior business leaders.

• Partnering to create people programs to support the business, Interim Role Program, Retail Stretch Assignment Program, etc.

Are you our next P&C Business Partner Specialist, Retail?

• You are based in the Tokyo area and can travel to stores in your region

• You have 5+ years of progressive HR experience in retail and/or hospitality

• You are comfortable navigating relationships, with expertise in leveraging data to manage a complex group of stakeholders

• You highly collaborative style and a willingness and demonstrated ability to work in teams as both a leader, and supporting team member

• You have the ability to coach, mentor, advise team members towards growth and development paths in alignment with business and personal objectives

• You have strong project management skills with the ability to adapt to changing priorities

• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, easily able to analyze data, assess people, understand trends, and develop prioritized recommendations

• You have excellent listening and communication skills, comfortable communicating large complex changes

• You are comfortable operating in the work, and simultaneously enjoy being part of highly complex business discussion

• You can quickly build an in depth understanding of the business, key processes, priorities and plans

• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity

• You can balance autonomy and collaboration

• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement

• You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right

• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it