Principal, Talent Partner Emea

7 months ago


London, United Kingdom AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) - F93 Full time

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience with 10+ years progressive in Talent Management or Human Resources.
- Demonstrates business and HR acumen, including problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and analytical acuity.
- Proficient in partnering effectively with senior leaders through skillful navigation of ambiguous situations using strategic planning and effective project management.
- Communication, coaching and influencing skills across diverse counterparts, globally.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small
- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

At AWS we're working to be the most customer-centric Cloud Services company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented people. We are looking for a dynamic, bright, and organized self-starter with a passion for talent management to join our team as a Principal Talent Partner supporting the EMEA AWS Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) organization. This role is part of a fun and passionate global HR and business group and requires strong client management and team collaboration across organizations. We are looking for a professional who has the ability to earn trust and influence senior leaders, think strategically about talent and the business in a matrixed organization, and diagnose issues, spot patterns, and develop solutions that de-risk and accelerates the business. This principal must possess an ability to assess and coach talent at an executive level. The Principal Talent Partner is a skilled communicator and facilitator, with experience driving strategic people conversations with senior leaders. Finally, this leader must be strategic and a systems thinker, with the skills necessary to clearly define problem statements and iterate, launch and scale mechanisms that address them. They will demonstrate analytical capabilities and be able to influence business priorities with data-driven recommendations.

Key job responsibilities
The Principal Talent Partner is a strategic talent management partner to HR and the business. They not only are responsible for the talent cadence, but are also a consultant and thought partner with the HR Director and their VP(s) regarding assessment, evaluation, critical talent, succession readiness, and development planning. They set the talent strategy for the region, and then build the mechanisms to bring it to life. Their primary responsibility is to improve the strength of the leadership bench, succession health, and executive engagement in talent management across EMEA. Tactically, they are responsible for ensuring our executive talent management processes (e.g. Directors and VPs) are launched, scaled, and improved upon for EMEA based organizations within AWS SMGS. This includes leading the talent cadence for comprehensive succession planning, critical role mapping, executive promotions and talent movement across EMEA and globally. In doing so, the Principal Talent Partner ensures our EMEA based businesses are consistently inspecting and assessing their organizational design, the strength of their leadership teams and succession plans, the depth of our leadership pipeline, their leadership capacity needs, and whether we have an optimal match between critical talent and critical roles. When opportunity to improve is identified, the Principal, Talent Partner consults with relevant business leaders and then builds, iterates, and scales solutions to address.

A day in the life
The Principal Talent Partner will plan, coordinate, and facilitate quarterly executive level talent reviews for the AWS SMGS EMEA organization and other EMEA based organizations as necessary, working back from the needs of the business vis a vis our talent, driving buy in from HR Directors and the business leaders. Beyond supporting EMEA based executive talent management efforts, this leader will define, build and scale an SMGS-wide executive talent movement mechanism and driving the design and launch of SMGS wide geography-based talent evaluation processes to drive alignment across our matrixed organization. These projects will support SMGS, globally. Finally, this role will eventually lead a small (< 5) person team of Talent Partners and/or business analysts.

About the team
This role sits on the AWS SMGS Executive Talent Management Team and is matrixed into the AWS EMEA SMGS PXT (HR) organization. The primary client for this role is the AWS Global Sales organization due to leadership footprint; however, the Principal Talent Partner will also work cross functionally to take a regional view of executive talent management across our Partners, Global Services, Public Sector, Industries and Marketing businesses. The Principal, Talent Partner is an influential partner to our regional HR Director(s) and the VP, AGS EMEA, in addition to Talent Partners representing non-EMEA based org



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