Senior HR Business Partner

About Us:

We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.

One of PVH’s greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at PVH here.

The Role

The Hub, HR Business Partnering team, is responsible to execute the overarching global/regional/hub people strategy, delivering core HR activities on time and in full, in addition to co-creating the local hub people plan to ensure strategic business priorities and net sales targets across retail, wholesale and office channels are being met.

The HR Business Partners are the critical connectors between the business and HR professionals within People, Experience & Services and Community of Experts (Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Total Rewards, People Operations, Payroll and DE&I) to enable business success.

The Senior Manager, HR Business Partner works as a strategic professional and coaches business leaders to enhance organizational capabilities and supports their strategic people and business agenda in areas of change and transformation, talent management, culture evolution and organizational design and effectiveness. The Senior HR Business Partner guides the leaders to optimize their organization, increase individual and team performance and develop talent by utilizing People Experience & Services (PE&S) and Community of Experts (COE) products and frameworks, business insights and feedback. Moreover, they collaborate with the PE&S and COE teams in designing and delivering business relevant HR initiatives or supporting business transformation. The Senior HR Business Partner represents one voice to the leadership team for HR, linking HR experts to the leadership team’s needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Co-create the people agenda towards the business, develop and implement people plans for the organization based on business and people strategy whilst leveraging people analytics and key performance indicators.

• Be an active member of the respective business leadership team with a strong relationship to all leadership team members and provide relevant future looking people solutions based on business acumen, strategic insight and a deep understanding of people approaches and trends.

• Evolve organizational performance by leveraging both, expertise and approaches in organization design/effectiveness and change management, constantly diagnosing the root cause of capability gaps, bringing solutions by creating the most efficient organization design for the team.

• Own annual workforce planning and ongoing controlling by translating business and people strategy into concrete workforce plans displaying the future workforce and concrete measures to evolve towards it.

• Coach leadership team as well as other senior leaders in managing and developing teams, high potential talents, leadership and functional capabilities in the organization as well as managing performance.

• Enable business transformation and be a change agent: lead organizational structure change initiatives based on provided tools and approaches and support leaders during the change process.

• Liaise with all PE&S and COE verticals to constantly evolve and improve PVH HR processes, approaches, policies, and tools by providing insights and feedback from the business, contributing to the design with a holistic view and business acumen.

• Support leadership team in rolling out HR Core processes providing guidance around (annual salary revision, Performance Management & Development, Talent Planning) as well as PVH EMEA/Global wide initiatives related to leadership behaviours/culture and DE&I.

• Support the leadership team in improving year on year succession for critical business roles, and support talent management programmes to improve  retention, enhance career progression and establish talent pools. Support the leadership team in improving the associate engagement (office/retail), working out priority focus areas based on insights and analytics from surveys and direct knowledge of the business.

• Provide guidance on complex challenges along the associate-life-cycle applying a deep understanding of individual and collective employment law.

• Partner with the business leaders in driving and elevating key people practices such as performance, talent, succession, retention, team effectiveness and employee engagement.

• Represent the PVH EMEA HR BP community and actively take part in EMEA and global HR enterprise projects for own development as well as to support PVH EMEA HR continuous improvement journey.

• Manage ER cases to conclusion, ensuring adherence to local statutory legislation.

• Partner with Retail Operations, Finance and Area Managers to review store performance against weekly KPI’s, being solution orientated when undertaking store visit interventions.

Note: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, those listed above. The role may require additional tasks and duties as assigned to meet the needs of the department and organization.

Requirements:

This role requires an experienced, strategic HR professional with a proven track record of partnering with senior leadership to drive global talent and transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess strong business acumen, an ability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations, and experience in change management and organizational development.
 

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Psychology, or a related field

• Significant experience in HR, with a focus on strategic business partnering, talent management, organizational design, and transformation

• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive the execution of strategic HR initiatives across global teams

• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand and influence key business drivers and goals

• Expertise in change management and organizational development, with a focus on driving efficiency and performance

• Excellent analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, with the ability to use HR metrics and insights to shape strategy

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organization

• Experience leading and coaching senior leadership teams, fostering a culture of high performance and accountability

• Fluency in English, with additional languages a plus

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally to stores when needed

PVH Corp. or its subsidiary ("PVH") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH is also committed to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential.