HR Business Partner, Joint Services

The Role

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) is a critical role on Green Thumb’s People Team. This role will be based out of our Chicago office and support our growing and evolving corporate functions (also known as Joint Services). The HRBP support and align the business objectives and our talent to scale our rapid growth. The HR Business Partner will be responsible for solving complex organizational challenges with people-related solutions. You will work closely with managers and senior leaders to coach, challenge, collaborate and support them as our business continues to evolve and scale.

Our ideal candidate will possess strong working knowledge of traditional human resources functions including employee relations, talent and performance management, compliance, employment law and generalist capacity of benefits, leaves, recruitment but most importantly, can apply them with a progressive approach. You will provide strategic perspectives to your business leaders where you evolve into an extension of the team. As the initial point of contact for all employee and personnel issues, you are deliberate and thoughtful in your approach to partner with your business leaders but still acting as a confidant to employees with the goal of creating a high performing, engaged team and culture. You are pragmatic, a leader, and most importantly, someone who enjoys the high-touch approach and are thrilled with non-stop action.

Responsibilities

• Culture Consigliore : As a member of the People team, you are part of the heartbeat of Green Thumb; you will assist in how to scale and enhance our culture as it relates to employee engagement and becoming a best place to work in the cannabis industry.
• Employee Relations : Serve as a confidential resource to employees and managers whether it be handling and escalating any employee relations issue in partnership with Employee Relations and in-house / outside counsel. You can confidently advise the business leaders by collecting and compiling applicable information especially as it relates to formal investigation process.
• Employment Law and Leave Policies / Administration : Well-versed in federal and state employment law and fluent in leave policies and administration for our employees and liaising with our Total Rewards and Employee Relations team. Must be able to understand overarching laws and help our employees understand their role in ensuring legal and internal policy compliant leaves.
• Program Development and Process Improvement : Bring innovative thought to the creation, planning, roll-out and the maintenance of programs and processes for a consistent and scalable approach.
• Talent and Performance Management : Strategize with business leaders and make recommendations to maximize our team’s performance whether it’s developing and defining career paths / opportunities, engagement, talent development and succession planning, and performance evaluations.
• Relationship Management : Create and maintain strong and trusting relationships across the organization; partner cross-functionally with department senior leadership to team managers and supervisors, internal People team to ensure that the team can grow, scale, and exceed business objectives.
• Change Management : Advise, and when necessary, lead in change management initiatives in business units by clearly understanding the strategic move and assisting with a communication plan and presenting recommendations to mitigate risks and ensure success in the change, as it relates to, personnel moves, M&A, or other organizational changes.
• Project Management : You may be involved with one-off projects focusing on improve the efficiency, effectiveness and engagement for our employees and managers. These projects will vary and in partnership with centers of excellence within the People team.

Qualifications

Additional Requirements