VP Human Resources

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The Specialty Rental Divisions' worldview is to enable our customer and people to thrive in an increasingly complex world. We empower, energize and engage our talents to transform the future through purpose driven culture, connected with autonomy and continue grow. Our vision is to remain the world's most trusted partner by solving complex industrial challenges with specialized agile solutions. Those are designed and implemented by passionate people who continually strive for new best ways.

We are looking for a VP HR to continue the transformation of the company into the best place to work in the region, while making better use of natural resources, and enabling people to flourish through the promotion and nurturing of a growth mindset culture, guiding and supporting the local teams in US, Canada and Mexico through the journey. You will report to the General Manager for the North America Region and will be a key member of the Regional Management team.

The mission

Your mission is to support the sustainable, inclusive and profitable growth of Atlas Copco Specialty Rental North America delivering an exceptional employee experience, continuously developing your team and helping to develop other teams, fostering a "growth mindset" culture with psychological safety approach and securing the right level of Competence, Confidence and Commitment. To be successful in your mission it is fundamental to perform in the following areas:

• Communication of the ASR purpose, vision and strategy, as well as People & Culture guidance to other managers in a clear and inspiring way.
• All HR related processes and activities (Hire-to-Retire), action priority setting and execution, in line with the strategy.
• Continuous cultural development based on the strategy to empower, energize and engage our Ren-Talents to transform the future, including the creation of a people centric leadership, coaching and teambuilding.
• Development of a top talent pipeline to ensure sustainability of performance.
• Support revenues and profitability growth in line with agreed targets.
• Help managing functional and operational cost, aiming to deliver 3% efficiency every year.
• Work with the GM and management team to define and achieve People & Culture related targets.
• Work closely with managers to improve employee retention rates.
• Continuously improve our attractiveness to new talent, enabling us to hire the people we need to meet our ambitious growth plans and reinforcing employer branding activities.
• Adherence to Performance & Development Enablement and Talent Management processes.
• Creation of a workplace that provides equal opportunity for equal talent.
• Secure the implementation of a compliant and attractive renumeration policy.
• Visioning of the future needs of the business and organization.
• Safeguard that our HR policies are in line with Holding North America guidelines and the Way We Do Things.

What can you expect?

As VP HR you are responsible for People and Culture Strategy definition and execution in North America, in line with the agreed regional targets for Specialty Rental business, including potential company's acquisitions, ensuring customer and people satisfaction and success. Additionally, you will interact with other departments, the Division, and even other Group companies, in a constructive, productive, and unselfish manner, establishing synergies and building healthy relationships that lead to win-win collaborations.

What can we expect of you?

Experience requirements.

• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience in related areas.
• Master's degree is a must, preferably in Business Administration, Psychology and/or Human Resources.
• Influence leadership, presentation, and strategic execution skills.
• You have awareness of local cultures and international business environments.
• The candidate must have an excellent command of English.

Personality requirements

Competency is more than ever a combination of knowledge, experience, and attitude. Our successful candidate will be:

• Empathic and a true ambassador of our Growth (Explore; Expand; Excite) and Culture (Empower; Energize; Engage) focus.
• Customer focused, passion for performance improvement.
• Caring for and passionate about people.
• Careful time planning, differentiating between the urgent and the important.
• Segmented action planning: fix key issues and problems, improve and optimize existing processes, and extend capability of the organization.
• Listen, decide, communicate, deliver, follow-up.
• You are not afraid of exploring and encouraging your team to explore new ideas.
• Continuous focus on execution.
• Ability to plan and execute for the near and far future.
• An innovative "new best ways" person with a flexible and responsive mindset.

In return, we offer:

• We believe and foster a learning culture where global mobility is an important enabler for growth.
• Our learning culture supports you on your journey: benefit from our individual learning opportunities (LinkedIn Learning e.g.), our feedback culture, the internal job portal, global project assignments, or face-to-face training sessions.
• You will experience an onboarding program at our North America headquarters.
• We support you and your well-being with different programs like team events, and more.
• We offer an excellent compensation package, including a flexible benefits plan.
• We offer health insurance, dental insurance, and vision insurance.
• We offer Paid time off, Life & Disability Insurance.

Job location

As a VP HR, you will be based in Deer Park, TX - US, but you are expected to frequently travel within the North America region and more occasionally to the other countries for events.

This position is hybrid, you will need to come into the office at least 3 times per week.

Atlas Copco Rental North America has offices throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Headquarters for ACRNA is located in Deer Park, TX, just outside of Houston.

Atlas Copco Group is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

We are a global team with colleagues in 180 locations in 170 countries.

Even if you don't meet all the points, but are ready for a challenge, click on "Apply" anyway. We love your spirit!

Diverse by nature and inclusive by choice

Bright ideas come from all of us. The more unique perspectives we embrace, the more innovative we are. Together we build a culture where difference is valued and we share a deep sense of purpose and belonging.