• Member of the country leadership team, contributing to and influencing the development of country strategy, providing challenge and HR consulting support. Manage the relationship with Business / Site leaders and Senior HRBPs to understand HR requirements and translate into prioritised operational plans.
• Deliver HR services in specific Countries to meet business needs ensuring compliance with corporate policy and Country contractual & legislative requirements.
• Accountable for legal/employment policy and governance, ensuring in-country activities comply with corporate policy and national employment laws. This includes hiring, termination, trade union relations, diversity, immigration. Support mergers/acquisitions/divestitures in the Country
• Manage and develop a pool / team of operational generalists to deliver business support. According to Country, manage a HR Shared Services Team. Drive the use of HR Shared Service to ensure Generalist team is focused on right priorities.
• Manage and control Country HR budget and Team, driving HR performance, consistency and standardisation to best utilise & minimise resources. Support Generalist team with business priority alignment.
• Provide local intelligence to Resourcing, Reward, Employee Relations and Business Areas on hiring trends, successful reward package elements, including benefits, and drivers for motivating the workforce.
• Assure core learning and Corporate compliance training is available to all. As appropriate, support development of in-country strategy for talent development, both individual growth and leadership growth.
• Drive standardisation, simplification, economy of scale where possible. Share practices regionally, globally in the interest of continuous improvement
• Act as primary management interface with in-country contracted HR advisory and support service
• Manage HR/Company interaction with relevant public regulatory groups, interested organisations, works councils

 

Requirement

 

 

• Demonstrated experience in a matrix organization
• Broad knowledge of the HR function and its capability to support business objectives
• Management of HR generalist teams, where size of country/sites warrants
• Well-developed customer and relationship management skills, including credibility and influencing skills. Customer service orientation. Ability to work in a ‘matrix’ and cope with ambiguity.
• Knowledge of country employment laws, regulations, procedures and HR issues.
• Local and English language capability
• Ability to coach leaders and their teams to deliver business strategy and drive performance and capability improvement within their teams.