Build trusted relationships with leadership and senior stakeholders in the business, providing HR Strategy in support of business needs. A key member of the SET collaborates with leadership to understand their priorities, designing solutions to deliver desired outcomes.
Support Organizational transformation, unblocking pain points that come with strategic change and supporting change management efforts to enable new ways of working.
Partner with HR leads in A&Q, Center of Excellence teams, People Operations, and Legal to operationalize HR interventions in support of business needs.
Develop strategic and operational plans to achieve results and ensure alignment with company goals and objectives through training and development initiatives.
Analyze data to determine trends, areas for improvement and recommend and/or implement appropriate strategies.
Track delivery against the case for change using analytical and data-driven approaches to business and organizational issue analysis.
Advocate, implement, and coordinate change initiatives to support enhanced organizational effectiveness within the business.
Drive HR plans, including alignment with global HR plans and processes, across the business.
Support leadership team with talent, staffing and employee mobility.
Provide input into the Talent strategy for the business through developing insight and analysis of people related business issues and opportunities (by leveraging global tools and, e.g. Talent Management tools/ processes and diversity metrics).
Determine the suitability of an applicant for employment. Based on those findings, make recommendations to hiring managers.
Support teams with creation and delivery of all HR related communications.
Support leaders on employee relations issues, managing complex cases to mitigate risk.
Coach and advise managers on organizational issues including conflict resolution, relationship building, and effective communication.
Coordinate with legal counsel as needed in regard to employment-related legal matters and policies.
Strategize and develop plans for staff retention efforts.
Assist with and advise leadership on employment and works council legislation as well as disciplinary action procedures, coaching, counseling, and documentation.
Assist managers with performance management.
Requirements
15 years’ experience as a global HR Business Partner supporting senior executives
Experience supporting an assessment and or retail organization is highly desirable
Experience managing a team of global HR Professionals
Extensive experience in operating model / org design and of partnering with a business undertaking a transformation (both culturally and organizationally), leveraging change management practices to embed changes successfully
Experience supporting dispersed teams
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Strong influencing skills, ability to drive change via influence vs. authority
Ability to balance strategic thinking/long term opportunities with execution of operational tasks