People Consultant
NetApp · Posted Oct 22
Hybrid cloud data services, enterprise storage, and cloud operations solutions
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About the role
NetApp is a data infrastructure company, and the People Consultant team sits within its next-generation global HR operating model. The team is chartered to empower people managers through targeted coaching, proactively resolve employee relations risks, and execute critical HR programs that support a high-performing, compliant workplace. This individual contributor role will advise on complex employee situations, support performance management and HR operations, and contribute to cross-functional HR projects.
What you will do
- Elevate manager decision quality through expert coaching, performance management guidance, and real-time advisory on complex employee situations
- Translate case insights into scalable solutions, working with the HR Leadership team to identify systemic gaps and drive improvements in policies, tools, training, and HR programs.
- Act as a critical feedback loop for the business, surfacing trends and insights that inform Talent, HR, and business strategy
- Trusted Advisory & Coaching: Engage as a trusted advisor to coach managers and employees on sensitive work-related issues, including performance management, conflict resolution, and the interpretation of company policy, culture, and values.
- Employee Relations: Triage and support managers and employees resolve issues that do not require formal investigation but are barriers, pose concern to morale or company culture. Work with legal on formal investigation close-outs to ensure that coaching and actions are completed in an effective and timely manner.
- Employee & Performance Management: Assist managers to navigate underperformance including effective documented coaching, drafting managing performance improvement plans, balancing speed, compliance, fairness, employee experience and business needs.
- HR Operations & Collaboration: Work closely with the HR Operations team to implement specific HR processes and transactions, supporting both complex employee and manager-generated requests.
- Cross-Functional Projects: Complete ad-hoc projects, as needed alongside cross-functional HR/Partner teams, occasionally taking the lead on specific projects/programs.
- Relationship Management: Establish, build, and maintain strong professional relationships with various business groups, including employees, people leaders, HR, and Legal.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience working in an employee relations, HR generalist, or HR business partner (HRBP) role.
- Issue Resolution: Proven ability to make recommendations and help resolve complex, unique, and highly sensitive employment-related issues.
- Legal & Compliance Expertise: Excellent, demonstrable knowledge of current employment law, relevant employment standards, legislation, and best practices in Employee Relations policies, principles, and procedures.
- Stakeholder Management: Able to advise a wide range of stakeholders on Employee Relations issues, effectively balancing legal compliance with overarching business needs.
- Influencing Skills: Demonstrate effective influencing skills to provide swift resolution to complex and highly sensitive employee matters.
- Collaborative & Independent: Ability to work autonomously while also being an active part of a team environment. Proven success in developing strong professional relationships with peers, managers, executives, and cross-functional teams.
- Judgment & Decision Making: Ability to use sound judgment to problem-solve, make high-stakes decisions, and involve the necessary individuals at the appropriate time.
- Champions Culture: Champions a high-performance culture by holding leaders accountable, reinforcing clear standards, and ensuring talent practices enable sustained business impact.
Benefits and support
- Flexibility to balance professional ambition with personal life
About NetApp
NetApp, Inc. is an American data infrastructure and data management company that provides unified data storage, integrated data services, and hybrid multi-cloud operations solutions to enterprise customers. Founded in 1992, the company empowers global enterprises to manage applications and data seamlessly across on-premises environments and major public clouds. NetApp specializes in intelligent data infrastructure, cyber resilience, and AI-driven data optimization.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 11700 employees
- Founded
- 1992
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer
President
Chief Technology Officer
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