Mattel Hiring for Associate Manager, Human Resources Business Partner Job at El Segundo, CA Full Time

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team: The Global Human Resources team are partners to all employees, delivering a meaningful, end to end employee experience. Our role is to attract, develop and engage employees in a purpose-centered work environment. Together, we challenge the status quo, encourage progressive thought, and influence meaningful change across the business. Our global HR team serves more than 30,000 employees in more than 30 countries. In all that we do, we strive to be a talent-led organization that cultivates equality, inclusion and empowerment for our employees and the communities we serve. We value meaningful work and creating personalized career opportunities as we build a world class HR team.

Every day, our Global Human Resources team role models the following competencies:

• Influential Advisor – Champions an idea and provides solutions that impact the business
• Builder of Organizational Capabilities – Creates processes and opportunities to support organizational priorities
• Driver of Transformation – Leads with a growth mindset, continuously pursuing ways to remove barriers to execution
• Strategic Mindset – Utilizes available resources such as data, insights, analysis, and team perspectives to inform decision making
• Business Acumen – Applies knowledge of the industry, market trends and competitive landscape to guide business outcomes

The Opportunity: At Mattel, our Human Resources team brings our company values, Collaboration, Innovation and Execution, to life to transform the way people work, play, think, feel and create. Mattel is seeking a progressive Human Resources Associate Manager who will translate Mattel’s HR strategy into locally relevant plans to attract, develop, advance, and engage employees supporting the Global Law Department and Corporate Communication & Philanthropy organizations. This role will be a primary partner to these client groups including up to SVP level and will collaborate with the Sr HR Director on HR strategy and be responsible for execution. The HRBP will collaborate with Mattel’s HR centers of excellence to help shape programs and initiatives supporting employees in a purpose centered workplace, globally. This role is based in El Segundo, CA with a hybrid, flexible schedule and will report into the Sr HR Director – Corporate Functions.

What Your Impact Will Be:

Drive Organizational Performance:

• Partner with business leaders to build high functioning and performing teams, driving towards business goals and results.
• Provide proactive and effective coaching to leaders on performance management, organization design, and staffing opportunities, driving overall organizational effectiveness.
• Partner with business leaders to strategically assess business needs and remove barriers by delivering people strategy and solutions.
• Coach leaders to manage and maximize the skills/capabilities of their team members to create an environment of empowerment and accountability..
• Work with people managers to focus on internal mobility and career paths for employees; partner with business leaders to support career development initiatives including the Attorney and Paralegal Career Matrices.
• Manage employee relations including ensuring proper investigations, documentation, and alignment with HR Employee Relations and Legal.
• Create and lead shared resources, operating model, and communications for reoccurring end-to-end HR processes across entire Corporate Functions portfolio (Legal, Corp Comms/Philanthropy, HR, Finance, Global Technology Org.

Inform, Engage and Accelerate Change:

• Maintain awareness of emerging trends and best practices to ensure alignment of the people strategy to the business objective.
• Utilize data and insights to drive decision making and proactively solve for trends.
• Drive process improvements in end-to-end, recurring HR and Talent processes across Corporate Functions portfolio.

Reshape Baseline Organization:

• Design and build organization structures and processes that align with strategic growth priorities and transformation initiatives.
• Implement Growth Mindset as part of business transformation and to drive sustainable business growth.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field with 5+ years of experience or Master’s degree with 2+ years of experience
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in HR, including at least 2 years in a Business Partner role
• Comprehensive organizational development and change management experience
• Experience implementing programs in workforce planning, talent management, compensation, employee relations, training & development, and legal/compliance
• Knowledge of HR legal practices and employee relations skills including experience conducting end-to-end HR investigations
• Ability to build and facilitate trusted business partnerships across multiple functional groups
• Thrives in a consumer facing, global, matrix working environment
• Data driven, organizational, and problem-solving capability

Additional Information

What It’s Like to Work Here:

We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower the next generation to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

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  We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
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  We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
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  We execute: We are a performance driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best in class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Our Approach to Hybrid Work

We embrace a hybrid work model to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where everyone can deliver on our shared purpose and realize their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with tech-enabled hybrid work, our focus is to provide flexibility while enabling collaboration for moments that matter.

Who We Are:

Mattel is a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of children’s and family entertainment franchises in the world. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain and develop children through play. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO and MEGA, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include film and television content, gaming, music and live events. We operate in 35 locations and our products are available in more than 150 countries in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering children to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.

Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.

Mattel is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers including minorities, females, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those of all sexual orientations and gender identities.