Senior Manager, Principal HRBP

As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will...

• Grow with an Ownership Mindset: We champion continuous learning and proactive innovation. Team members are encouraged to identify challenges and take ownership of initiatives that drive merchant, company and personal growth. By tackling complex problems and exploring creative solutions, you wont just follow a playbook, youll be actively building the future of ShipBob.
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Location: Remote ( Anywhere in India)

Are you ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic and evolving global organization ShipBob is seeking a passionate and innovative HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, creative problem-solving environment. This is your opportunity to shape and implement new HR strategies and programs, building upon a solid foundation thats primed for the next level of growth.

In this role, you will lead a diverse team of HR professionals with varying degrees of experience and expertise, all united by a common goal: to create lasting impact. At ShipBob, we embrace risk-taking and value collaboration across all levels of the organization. We are one team, focused on the same goals, and your contributions will be instrumental in driving our success.

What You Can Expect From This Career Opportunity

• Impact & Influence Play a key role in shaping HR strategies and programs in a fast-growing global company.
• Leadership Experience Lead and develop a diverse HR team with varying levels of experience and expertise.
• High-Visibility & Collaboration Partner closely with business partners and Talent leadership to drive meaningful change.
• Innovation & Autonomy Bring fresh ideas to the table, take risks, and deliver initiatives with full support.
• Growth & Development Work alongside passionate, talented professionals in a culture that values continuous learning.
• Fast-Paced Problem-Solving Thrive in an environment that embraces growth moments, rewards performance, and learns from mistakes.
• Strong Company Culture Join a team thats collaborative, down-to-earth, and passionate about making a difference.

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Principal HRBP is pivotal in supporting ShipBobs India business operations and global People team. This role acts as a leader, manager, mentor, and contributor, ensuring the alignment of People team strategies with business priorities. The position leverages relational skills, business insight, and HRBP expertise to influence meaningful results. It steps in as an action-oriented problem-solver, showcasing opportunities and driving a growth mindset across SBIs strategic leadership group, motivating others to achieve results.

HRBPs are a member of their business units collaborative group. Partnering with them on critical thinking and strategic matters. This role acts as an advisor and trusted confident for proactive planning, and, in limited circumstances, high-risk, complex people matter. The HRBP is the driving influence that keeps their business units priorities connected to the People team, to plan, develop and deploy critical capabilities supporting positive business outcomes.

The role requires flexibility for a shift hour till 12 pm CST, as required to support business groups that operate in CST hours.

This role reports to the Senior Director, People Strategy & Operations.

What Youll Do

• Partnering with core leadership on Indias workforce plans Talent reviews, scenario planning, staffing plans, performance assessments, etc.
• Foster stronger connections between the People team Centers of Excellence and the challenges we need to address within the organization.
• Develop a team success plan to ensure that the members of the People Strategy & Operations team in India are clear about their role expectations, have the necessary resources to succeed, understand their accountabilities, and have defined measures of success.
• Collaborates, Plans, & Aligns: Assess and sets the vision for ShipBob Indias People Strategy & Operations objectives, in collaboration with People team leadership/management, People team COEs and the business, harnessing buy-in/alignment.
• Develops Talent: Monitors the performance of their direct reports (Sr. HRBPs and People Experience Manager); teaches, coaches, guides, directs, and develops where necessary.
• Builds Effective Teams: Responsible for the effectiveness, deliverables, and outcomes of ShipBob Indias Sr. HRBPs and People Experience Manager.
• Manages Ambiguity: Initiates solving problems or finding new solutions for Indias broader workforce needs, and for opportunities that exist globally with international working dynamics.
• Builds Relationships & Trust: Builds trusting relationships with management and leadership, extending thought leadership to bridge gaps between organizational OKRs and people plans/capabilities.
• Business Acumen: Maintains thorough awareness of their designated business units/ client groups goals, while leveraging curiosity and business acumen to contribute to successfully meeting their goals.
• Organizational Analysis & Design: Partners with the business to create comprehensive workforce plans and organizational design, while identifying human capital business needs and counseling management/leadership on the root cause, no matter how complex.
• Creative Problem Solver: Bring design thinking and new ideas to the table and proactively create solutions through collaboration and partnership.
• Problem Solving: Surface and identify business unit and organizational health trends through data collection, research and analysis.
• Investigates & Mitigates Risk: Supports the global ER/Compliance Manager and Employee Experience Manager with employee investigations and provides intervention or resolution where necessary.
• Organizational Link: Acts as a change agent, project and program manager, and communicates People team initiatives and other business priorities and goals.
• Holds the Presiding Officer seat on the POSH Committee.
• Other duties/responsibilities as necessary.

What Youll Bring To The Table

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  A bachelors degree and a minimum of 10 years of experience with most of the career background coming from HR Business Partnerships and HR Leadership (people management), providing guidance/direction to global business leaders in a fast-growing organization where there has been proven positive outcomes.
• Preferred Experience: Currently leading in the capacity as head of HRBP Team.
• Established ability to utilize HR technology - HRIS, ATS, engagement, and performance platforms and understands CRM platforms with a track record of quickly turning data into action.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and taking part in complex strategy discussions. Your point of view is valuable, and you share it with both confidence, conviction, and humility.
• Embodies a mission-driven, humble, resilient, and creative problem-solver mindset and approach.
• Management & Leadership Skills, Capabilities & Behaviors: Communication/Listening, Builds & Develops Talent, Conflict Management, Judgement Making & Quality, Plan & Aligns, Drives Results, Engages, Inspires, & Motivates, Business Acumen & Analysis, Confidence & Conviction, Inspires Others to Act, Sets Direction, Global Transdisciplinary, Presenting Skills.
• HRBP Skills, Capabilities & Behaviors: Business Advisory, Partnering, & Generalist, Collaborates, Builds Relationships & Trust, Work Self-Reliantly, Influence / Negotiating, Problem Solving, Project & Program Management, Interprets Context.

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, Term & Accidental Insurance
• All Purpose Leave (casual & sick time): 12 days
• Earned Leave: 15 days
• Public Holiday: 12 days
• Generous Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Quarterly Wellness Day
• Work From Home Allowance
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We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

Learn more about our core values and how we perform at a high level in our day-to-day work on our Culture page (https://www.shipbob.com/careers/culture/).

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