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Company Description
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
Job Description
The Opportunity:
HR Business Partners work closely with business leaders to translate talent and culture priorities into locally relevant plans that attract, develop, and retain best-in-class talent. We are trusted advisors, and we empower our teams to reach their goals. This role reports into the HR Director and is based in our El Segundo, CA office with a hybrid schedule.
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 Employee Relations in conducting investigations ensuring proper handling, documentation, and alignment with legal.
Inform, Engage and Accelerate Change:- Partner with business leaders to implement talent development programs within each business unit (e.g., workforce planning, succession planning, performance management process, and organizational development);
- Provide guidance and coaching to managers and employees to ensure full understanding and practical application of HR programs, practices, policies, and local legislation;
- 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.
Reshape Baseline Organization:- Design and build organization structures and processes that align with strategic growth priorities and cost initiatives;
- Implement organization design to establish new capability requirements, up-skill talent and drive sustainable business growth.
Qualifications
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field with 6+ years of relevant experience OR
- Master’s degree with 4 years of relevant experience
- 3 years of experience in an HR business partner role preferred
- PHR/SPHR or other HR certification preferred
- Comprehensive organizational development and change management experience required
- 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
- Ability to build and facilitate trusted business partnerships across multiple functional groups
- Thrive in a consumer facing environment
- Data driven, organizational, and problem-solving capability
- Familiar with non-exempt guidelines and policy
The annual base salary range for this position is between $98,000 and $140,000.
**This range is indicative of projected hiring range, however annual base salary will be determined based on a candidate’s work location, skills and experience.
Additional Information
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Mattel is recognized for the second year in a row as a Great Place to Work™ and as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2022.
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, military spouses, individuals with disabilities, and those of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
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