Lead, Culture & Teammate Experience - (Coverage) - Part time (20h/week)

Lead, Culture & Teammate Experience - Part time (20h/week)

Values & Innovation

At Under Armour, we are committed to empowering those who strive for more, and the company's values - Act Sustainably, Celebrate the Wins, Fight on Together, Love Athletes and Stand for Equality - serve as both a roadmap for our teams and the qualities expected of every teammate.

Our Values define and unite us, the beliefs that are the red thread that connects everyone at Under Armour. Our values are rallying cries, reminding us why we're here, and fueling everything we do.

Our pursuit of better begins with innovation and with our team's mission of being the best. With us, you get the freedom to go further - no matter your role. That means developing, delivering, and selling the state-of-the-art products and digital tools that make top performers even better.

Purpose of Role

In this role, you will support the Under Armour EMEA Culture and Teammate Experience function and the implementation of the organization's multi-year Culture and Teammate Experience strategy within the EMEA region, on all stages of the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, performance management, employee engagement, leadership development and retention.

Your primary focus will be to lead an employee relations program that includes investigations/complaints management and focuses on proactive initiatives driving improved employee experiences in both corporate and retail environments. In addition, you will also support specific Leadership development and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs within the EMEA region, contributing to build a skilled, diverse and inclusive teammate population that authentically represents UA's values.

Your Impact

• Lead Investigations: in tight collaboration with relevant stakeholders, directly manage investigations, teammate complaints, and organizational concerns raised by teammates, with minimal oversight, except those involving executive leaders.
• Drive Process/policies improvement: continuously enhance teammate relations processes, focusing on high-impact tasks that elevate culture and teammate experience.
• Support Managers and HRBP: coach and support managers and HR Business Partners in executing action plans based on investigation results. Facilitate New Leader Acceleration workshops for foundational trust building in teams.
• Support Leadership decision making for higher teammates’ engagement: through focus groups, culture checks, and workplace trends analysis, gathering feedback from onboarding to exit, and conducting qualitative and quantitative data driven diagnosis.
• Conflict Resolution: can serve as a mediator and conduct conflict resolution sessions to address team dynamics.
• Provide Expert Advice: offer expert counsel to leaders (Sr. Director and below) and HR Business Partners on best practices, policies, and employment laws, in partnership with the Company’s In-house Employment Counsel.
• Implement Cross-Functional Projects: lead projects related to the Culture and Teammate Experience strategy, including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives and leadership development such as: cultural events, Employee Resource Groups coordination, DEI social media strategy, talent development, aimed at improving employees’ experience and engagement in both corporate and retail environments.

Qualifications

Knowledge, skills & abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal, active listening skills.
• Proven ability to effectively influence and collaborate with peers and more senior teammates.
• Proven ability to manage and/or appropriately escalate organizational issues.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate findings from data.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to keep high level of confidentiality
• Languages: English full proficiency + good proficiency in additional European language, with a preference for Dutch or Spanish.

Education and/or experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of experience, with at least 2 years in Human resources in an HRBP or Employee Relations role.
• Direct employee facing experience
• Ideally, a first exposure to culture, DE&I and employees’ engagement programs or projects
• Experience in retail environment is a plus.
• EMEA legal employment knowledge a plus.

Benefits & Perks

• Paid “UA Give Back” Volunteer Days: Work alongside your team to support initiatives in your local community.
• Under Armour Merchandise Discounts
• Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources- We offer teammates across the country programs to promote physical activity and overall well-being.
• Hybrid work
• 28 days holiday
• Teammate Resource groups e.g. Green Machine, Sustainability, LGBTQIA+, Women in Leading and Living, Balance for mental health and wellbeing etc.
• Human Performance Institute (Gym) on site
• Local Language course when moving from abroad

Our Commitment to Diversity

At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, family or paternal status and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.