Director/Sr.Director, Employee Success Business Partner - Salesforce

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Employee Success (ES), our Human Resources organization, is made up of Recruiting, Employee Success Business Partners (ESBPs), Compensation & Benefits, People Operations, Talent Growth & Development, Employee Relations etc that work in partnership to continue to build Salesforce. Whether we are supporting a specific business unit’s ES needs, refining operations, or innovating in other areas using new technologies we interact and make business decisions based on core values embodied in our core values: Trust; Customer Success; Innovation; Equality; Sustainability

Role Description
We are seeking a Sr. Director or Director, Employee Success Business Partner (ESBP) to provide a full range of HR business partnership to client organizations in Japan and Korea. In a partnership capacity, the person will work closely with Vice President, Employee Success in Japan & Korea and other local COE leaders on employee engagement and retention, manager/employee development and coaching, compensation planning, organizational development, change management, special projects, and AI(Agentforce)/analytics. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills that they can use to help advise and influence their clients. As our business continues to grow in Japan and Korea, we need a strong Business Partner leader to manage a team.

This is a complex role and you should have proven capability that you can excel in a fast paced environment and feel comfortable working in a diverse and matrixed organisation. You will report into the Vice President, Employee Success, Japan and Korea.

Your Impact:

• Strengthen the leadership team of each function by providing coaching and development to executives.
• Act as a change-agent as the ES organization grows with the goal of providing a world class customer and employee experience.
• Lead initiatives ranging from complex to highly complex where the impact is significant in supporting the client's needs. Initiatives include employee retention, talent assessment, succession planning, compensation (equity, bonus, merit), and employee/management development.
• Promote employee and organizational development including management development, succession planning, performance management programs, skills gap analysis, and career development.
• Partner with and between Centers of Excellence (COEs) to deliver seamless human resources processes and programs across the organization. Leverage all HR programs, policies, processes and systems.
• Provide client with data, findings, and recommendations of client organizations' "health" by assessing trends in performance, span of control, employee engagement, manager feedback, attrition and turnover, etc.
• Utilize our own technology like Agentforce to create a great employee experience throughout the entire employee life cycle.
• Lead a few team members of ESBP's.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Interpersonal skills and organizational agility: Demonstrated track record of developing effective relationships across all levels of the organization and with diverse client groups. Ability to develop the trust of business executives and the support of the COEs. Demonstrated ability to drive major initiatives and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Change management skills: Ability to add value through change management; help pivot the culture and improve overall effectiveness of the business and teams.
• Resiliency: A successful candidate must be resilient in building relationships with the business executives, exerting pressure when pressure may be needed, but also choosing their priorities carefully.
• Problem solving and critical thinking: Approach problem-solving from an evidence-based perspective, using sound reasoning and recognizing how emotion affects choices and implementation with the keen ability to diagnose and successfully handle organizational development issues.
• Strong business acumen: Recognizes and enjoys the business side of business. Has knowledge about the organization’s finances and operations and how talent management affects each. Approaches problem solving from a business-first perspective.
• Analytical Skills: Comfort with data and using data to provide insights to help advise and influence business decisions.
• Project Management skills: establish project objectives, analyze data, prioritize responsibilities, delegate tasks, execute project deliverables, track and measure to successful completion
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; must be an articulate and persuasive communicator.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and a highly matrixed business environment.
• Proven leadership capability and experience of driving a high level of employee satisfaction within team.
• Ability to conduct group facilitation, and coach and counsel management at all levels.
• Knowledge of Japanese local laws, statutes, etc. which govern employment policies and practices.
• Knowledge of staffing and compensation strategies, practices and processes.
• Leadership Development Programs participation like Elevate for internal candidates

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years of strategic HR Business Partner experience and 15 + years overall HR experience
• Fluent in Japanese and English(minimum-TOEIC 850)
• Leadership experience
• Experience providing HR business partner support to organizations of 500+ employees.
• Proven HR experience preferably within a high-growth technology organization
• Results-driven, solutions-oriented, and comfortable in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint: ability to prepare and lead executive-level presentations, and collect, assimilate and analyze data.

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