• High Performance Org & Skills-Based Talent

  • Performance Coaching: Coach and elevate business leaders into high-impact performance coaches.
  • High Performance team building and Facilitation: Identify opportunities to create and deliver team and leadership development interventions at meetings, offsites etc
  • Skills-Based Architecture: Lead the ongoing transformation toward a skills-based organization, defining what skills are needed to deliver our strategy and company goals.
  • Engagement: Identify opportunities and solutions to continuously improve employee experience and engagement

• Collaborator and Connector

  • Collaborating with our broader people team: (including Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Learning and Development, HR Ops, Engagement & Wellbeing), evolving how we work together, and what we deliver, whilst supporting each other to feel meaning, purpose and joy in our work.
  • Building community, relationships and connections across the business: to continuously improve how we collaborate and deliver results.

Skills & Experience

Skills:

• Stakeholder Influence and partnership: Building influence and trust with senior leaders and team members across the world, when you don't share an office. Navigating time zones, communication methods and matrixed organisations to get things done.
• Strategic Courage: The bravery to challenge the status quo, speak truth, have difficult conversations and notice what will help us go faster and be better.
• Talent Strategy: Defining and mapping the skills needed, available and emerging. Translating business strategy into talent strategy. Leveraging and embedding talent programmes and initiatives for maximum impact to build skills, opportunities and internal mobility in support of our goal to be a world-class talent builder.
• Change Leadership: A proactive, positive, leader of change. Observing opportunities, asking 'what if' and helping others see the 'why'. Making things happen and bringing people along with you in large-scale transformation. Going beyond delivery of a change plan, to landing a change for business impact.
• Work and Organizational Design: Alongside the more traditional organisation design, work design is an emerging skill within the People profession; we would love to learn this skill together.
• Data Analysis and Storytelling: Our core data is good; you will need to be able to translate that data into a simple, compelling message that influences leaders to act. Our reporting and ambition for predictive analytics is a work in progress; you will need to be able to navigate the reality of today whilst we work to build our analytics of the future.
• Strategic Consulting and Coaching: Scale and build leadership capability and performance through coaching, knowing when to be a consultant and when to be a coach, going beyond ‘responsive order-taking’ to understanding business problems and proposing solutions.
• Facilitation: Creating opportunities within the teams you partner, to facilitate learning moments and sessions eg. offsite team meetings, all hands calls etc
• Emotional Intelligence: The 'human' in Human Resources. Role modelling Emotional Intelligence and empathy to build trust and psychological safety. Understanding your own emotions and those of others. The ability to listen actively, accurately understand another's perspective, and adapt to their needs. Supporting leaders and team members develop these skills
• Systems thinking: The ability to see the whole organisation as an interconnected, living system, not just a set of separate departments/processes. Solving root causes, not just symptoms
• Tech-Forward & Curious: An active curiosity regarding the future of work, fluent in AI tools, with understanding of how technology expands what is possible, and a proficient user of enterprise tools like Workday.

Preferable Experience:

• Proven HR Leadership: Progressive HR business partnering experience, preferably within fast-paced, matrixed global technology environments.

Competencies:

• Modelling the core competencies which are foundational across our business:
  • Adaptable Resilience
  • Analytical Reasoning and Decision Making
  • Execution
  • Influencing with Empathy
  • Leading and Developing People
  • Learnability
  • Self-Awareness
  • Strategic Thinking with Business Acumen

Job Human Resources

What We Offer

We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want. We celebrate and reward your achievements. SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind. This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper. If you’re a big thinker, obsessed by execution and thrive in a dynamic environment in which you can tangibly create a lasting legacy, then please apply now!

We give you the freedom to be yourself. You will work in a global community of unique individuals – like you – with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives. A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics. Sounds like the right fit for you? Click Apply to submit your resume. A recruiter will contact you if your skills match our current or any future positions. In the meantime, stay updated on the latest SUSE news and job vacancies by joining our Talent Community.

SUSE Values

SUSE's culture is centered on four key values - Choice, Community, Trust, and Innovation - which are deeply integrated with our open source ethos.

Choice:

• We are continuously making choice happen
• We are accountable for our choices
• We never get complacent

Community:

• Nobody is smarter than everybody
• We embrace diversity of thought
• We are “open source first, upstream first” where collaboration benefits all

Trust:

• We are trusted to deliver with