There isn’t a more exciting time to join Microsoft! If you want to be on the leading edge of transforming businesses and culture, building new capabilities, and delivering HR services in new ways, this opportunity is one that you don’t want to miss.  

The Microsoft Commercial Business (MCB) HR team is looking for an experienced HR partner to join the newly forming Line Solutions HR team. HR Line Solutions teams around the world are chartered with delivering world-class employee and manager experiences by providing exceptional consultation and guidance on various HR/people matters ranging from performance and talent development, employee movement, and employee relations.

We are looking for an HR manager who is passionate about influencing and impacting a high growth and dynamic business through effective management (both proactive and reactive) of employee relations and related activities. This person will be a member of the team accountable for managing employee relations cases across the entire MCB organization (~7,000 U.S. employees), while analyzing trends and building linkages to management development, compensation and retention efforts, and HR business intelligence activity.

Responsibilities

Some of the awesome HR work you’ll be doing includes:

• Partnering with managers and business leaders on issues including poor performance, policy violations, and investigations; managing cases from beginning to conclusion
• Improving manager capability by providing coaching to managers and employees
• Leveraging your insights to influence all levels of the organization and effectively handling potentially volatile situations that could have high organizational impact
• Partnering across line HR to organize trainings for managers on preventing employee relations issues, effective management of performance cases, giving performance feedback, employee engagement and retention, compensation analytics, and other topics related to manager effectiveness
• Utilizing consulting skills to effectively contract work with clients
  
  

Key Accountabilities:

• Employee Relations Case Management – You will be responsible for effectively resolving a caseload of varying complexity in a professional and timely manner while ensuring that you are adhering to Microsoft’s policies and guidelines and mitigating potential risks to the company. You will employ a variety of tactics and adapt to the various situations in each part of the organization.
• Analysis and Recommendations – By tracking cases and crossing this with other organizational data, you will be well positioned to analyze trends and identify issues in and across teams. You will work with line HR to address these issues and also use proactive measures to prevent future ones from occurring.

Qualifications

Qualifications should include 5-8 combined years of directly applicable HR and/or Employee Relations experience or an equivalent combination of advanced training and experience. Other skills include but are not limited to

• Ability to partner with line HR and legal teams to effectively manage and all types of employee relations cases
• Excellent coaching, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills- Stellar communication, collaboration, project management, computer, and presentation skills.
• Analytical skills with ability to use data to form hypothesizes, draw insights, form narratives, prioritize, and influence decisions.
• Strong working knowledge of employment laws and regulations (ADA, EEO, FMLA) and the ability to appropriately spot employment risk issues.
• Ability to recognize trends and identify systemic approaches to solving problems.
• Business and people acumen, knowledge of consulting frameworks and models, and ability to influence business leaders at an executive leve
• Ability to use experience and judgment to make decisions that may be based on partial information.
• Comfort and experience dealing with ambiguity, change, and challenging problems
  
  

Education and Experience:

• BS/BA degree is required. MBA or MA in HR-related field, along with a PHR/SPHR certification, is preferred.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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