About the position
Come join the HRBP team at Western Digital! We are looking for a strategic HRBP to partner with executives in our Product Organization, reporting to the VP, HRBP’s of Technology. This role is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA. We come together 2-3 days a week to collaborate and connect. In this role, you will partner closely with Product business leaders to align the Western Digital people strategy to their respective organizations. You will dive into employee engagement, retention, leader development, coaching and change management. You will be able to bring creativity to the role as you design and implement people initiatives that are specifically aligned to the business needs. In this role, you will be a trusted advisor, talent strategist and change agent supporting business growth, transformation and a high-performance culture.
Responsibilities
- Operate as a trusted advisor by using professional credibility and strong relationships with executives to influence key priorities.
- Support and work with business teams to understand current and future goals and trends that may impact workforce needs and initiatives.
- Proactively engage with leaders on people strategy through workforce planning, location strategy, organization design and structure.
- Flawlessly execute appropriate talent planning activities that will identify talent, leadership development priorities, and succession plans.
- Lead initiatives ranging from complex to highly complex with significant impact.
- Innovate on existing programs to help leaders look around corners and drive better organizational results.
- Act as a change-agent as the business continues to rapidly grow and adapt to every changing market dynamic, competitive landscape, and technological advancement.
- Partner with and between our Centers of Excellence to deliver seamless processes and programs across the organization.
- Analyze trends and metrics in partnership with the Centers of Excellence to develop organizational and people strategies which improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their business groups.
- Monitor organizational health metrics and implement action plans in partnership with leaders.
- Ensure consistent, high-quality HR delivery across the organization.
Requirements
- Knows the business and stays up to date on key organizational impacts including product road map, talent management and short term and long-range planning.
- Is knowledgeable about the product development and operations of the organization and understands easily the connection between talent management practices and the business.
- Has a demonstrated background in Organizational Design.
- Is a pro at workforce planning and is a key advisor to the business in scaling, location strategy and new markets.
- Effectively analyzes and identifies people issues that are affecting business performance and can leverage the appropriate resources to resolve the critical issues.
- Looks around corners to proactively identify challenges on a global scale.
- Can align recommendations for sustainable organizational design to short term and long-range business plans.
- Can quickly process large amounts of information, connect and integrate data into new solutions or a better understanding of problems.
- Ruthlessly prioritizes, can make trade offs and brings others along appropriately.
- Adds value through change management to help pivot the culture and improve overall effectiveness of the business.
- Understands and has experience successfully applying a model of change management.
- Can accurately assess potential and can accelerate the development of talent.
- Enjoys leading and can take unpopular stands if necessary.
- Does not shy away from adversity and is energized by tough challenges.
- Always willing to roll up their sleeves, does not say 'that’s not my job' and collaborates to get results.
