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