About this role
MPC Delivery HR Business Partner
JOB SUMMARY
We are actively seeking a strategic Human Resources business partner to work on the Human Resources Delivery team at Mississippi Power Company. This position will provide broad and strategic consulting in the areas of organizational effectiveness, employee development, compensation, succession planning, workforce planning and organizational design within their assigned customer group. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor, leveraging their HR expertise to consult on various aspects of human resources, tailor strategies to our business needs, and contribute to the achievement of company goals by ensuring top-quality HR service delivery.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Act as the primary HR liaison for assigned business units, building effective working relationships to integrate HR initiatives and align them with the business culture, while recommending strategies to enhance workplace culture and elevate organizational effectiveness.
- Provide consultative guidance and support to ensure a thorough understanding and effective application of HR policies and procedures within the organization.
- Assist business unit leaders in providing employees with development opportunities that align with current and future workforce needs.
- Proactively identify new opportunities for HR to add value to the business.
- Facilitate high level discussions with senior leaders.
- Partner with HR Delivery team members (and/or other HR team members) on key people projects and initiatives.
- Offer objective and creative solutions to customer issues.
- Use analytical skills to identify and recognize trends from data analysis and translate into recommendations for actions.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, or a related field is preferred.
- A minimum of 3 years’ HRBP experience or related HR consulting experience in multiple human resources disciplines is preferred.
- Proven track record in major HR disciplines and working with diverse employee groups.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Broad knowledge of HR disciplines such as talent management, strategic staffing, workforce planning, employee relations, compensation, employee development, organizational effectiveness, employment law and compliance and their application in solving customer issues.
- Demonstrated ability to consult with all levels of management through building effective relationships, facilitating discussions, providing objective solutions, influencing, and demonstrating a flexible and adaptive approach.
- Critical thinking, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution and problem-solving skills.
- High level of personal initiative and responsibility.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion and professionalism, ensuring compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
- Strong communication skills; listening, oral, written and presentation.
- Ability to identify new ways for HR to support the business strategy.
- Ability to use analytical skills to identify and recognize trends from data analysis and translate into recommendations for actions.
- Ability to champion and influence change.
Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf. Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.
Mississippi Power
Other facts
About Southern Company
Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.
That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.
We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.
We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.
What you'll do
- The Human Resource Business Partner will act as the primary HR liaison for assigned business units, integrating HR initiatives with business culture. They will provide consultative guidance and support to enhance organizational effectiveness and employee development.
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