• People Liaison: You are the key liaison between the People team, the Retail HRBP team, and Retail Leadership. Additionally, you are the key to communicating the respective business changes as it applies to our internal People team functions, payroll, benefits, and recruitment within your business unit.
• Culture Consigliore: As a member of the People team, you are part of the heartbeat of Green Thumb; you will assist in how to scale and enhance our culture as it relates to employee engagement and becoming a best place to work in the cannabis industry.
• Employee Relations: Serve as a confidential resource to the business unit employees and managers whether it be handling and escalating any employee relations issue in partnership with the People team and in-house/outside counsel. You can confidently advise the business leaders by collecting and compiling applicable information especially as it relates to formal investigation process.
• Employment Law and Leave Policies/Administration: Well-versed in federal and state employment law and fluent in leave policies and administration for our employees and liaising with our Total Rewards team. Must be able to understand overarching laws and help our employees understand their role in ensuring legal and internal policy compliant leaves.
• Program Development and Process Improvement: Bring innovative thought to the creation, planning, roll-out and the maintenance of programs and processes for a consistent and scalable approach especially from your lens being based within our retail footprint.
• Talent and Performance Management: Partner with business leaders and applicable HRBPs to make recommendations to maximize our team’s performance whether it’s developing and defining career paths/opportunities, engagement, talent development and succession planning, and performance evaluations.
• Relationship Management: Create and maintain strong and trusting relationships across the organization; partner cross-functionally with the Retail management and leadership team, internal People team to ensure that the team can grow, scale, and exceed business objectives.
• Change Management: Advise, and when necessary, lead in change management initiatives in business units by clearly understanding the strategic move and assisting with a communication plan and presenting recommendations to mitigate risks and ensure success in the change, as it relates to, personnel moves, M&A, or other organizational changes.
• There will be one-off projects, process improvements, and ability to partner with other centers of excellence, specifically with Payroll & Benefits and Talent Acquisition.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of experience as a strategic HR Business Partner experience with employee relations or operating in a strategic business aspect; 
• SPHR, PHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP Certification, preferred and hands-on business experience with premier, market-leading companies
• Experience supporting a retail or high-growth, fast-paced and complex work environment, a plus
• Experience with large population of hourly employees and providing regional support, a plus
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to influence and confidently interface with all levels of the organization
• Highly motivated, self-directed and passionate about our people and our company but the ability to remain objective, business-oriented, and rational
• Effective organization and planning skills as well as solid analytical, quantitative and problem-solving skills – our systems and processes are manual and at times, administrative – must be able to keep up with proper documentation, filing and follow-up
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities and coaching skills
• Impeccable attention to detail; in fact, include “I am your CANNABEST HR Business Partner” in your cover letter
• Experience in high-growth and dynamic and national Retail brick and mortar footprint
• Entrepreneurial and pragmatic
• Operationally strong, detail obsessed. Sees the big picture and understands how things connect. Must be able to operate at both strategical and tactical levels and appreciates that sorting the details is a requirement
• Track record of partnering with the leadership team and hands-on execution

Additional Requirements

• Must pass any and all required background checks
• Must be and remain compliant with all legal or company regulations for working in the industry
• Must possess valid driver’s license
• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age
• Must be approved by state badging agency to work in cannabis industry