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• Strategic positioner
• Culture and change champion
• Impact and influence
• Drive talent offense

• Being a potential successor for Senior HR Director EEMEA position
• International and culturally diverse experience
• Driving high performance and executing strategy
• End-to-end accountability for great talent

• Serves as subject-matter expert to managers and team of HR Business Partners
• Implements change based on proven change management techniques
• Applies policies and procedures across organization; interprets both policies and changes to policy and serves as escalation for questions
• Ensures team of HR Business Partners apply compliance knowledge to protect organization and mitigate risk
• Seeks ways to proactively improve organizational processes and outcomes; implements solutions that are aligned and consistent with global HR best practices
• Works with team members to identify and report trends to Senior HR Leaders for business unit

• Facilitates difficult interactions among organizational stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes; resolves escalated conflicts among stakeholders
• Builds consensus and settles disputes on HR policy and practice decisions
• Oversee and lead employee litigation/dispute resolution for assigned business group

• Leads a team of HR Business Partners who execute HR business strategies to drive key business results; provides guidance on HR matters, partnering with subject-matter experts to develop needed solutions
• Maintains broad-based knowledge of the organization and its operations; uses knowledge of business and HR metrics to facilitate business decisions
• Demonstrates working knowledge of the labor market and its relation to organizational success

• Leads a team that partners with managers and HR to proactively implement business solutions, utilizing HR expertise and perspective; supports managers on HR projects
• Coaches managers on HR and business-related issues
• Ensures solutions are aligned with business unit HR strategy and advocates for solution implementation

• Provide overall management and leadership to team of HR Business Partners
• Ensures team communicates effectively with managers in order to execute programs, policies, and procedures to drive an engaged and performing organizational culture
• Implements and delivers solutions and interventions that address issues of retention, change management, employee engagement, and leadership development, partnering with subject-matter experts as appropriate
• Ensures team of HR Business Partners provides consistent HR services for the operating entity

• Interprets data and makes recommendations; asks critical questions needed to evaluate data; gathers, analyzes and presents data to managers and recommends solutions that support the culture and the defined HR strategy
• Analyzes root causes of work environment issues; manages interventions and solutions in collaboration and cooperation with key stakeholders

• B.A. or B.S from accredited university required
• Advanced Degree preferred

• 8+ years of work experience required - previous HR experience including supporting multiple functions and interacting with COE's and business leaders is required
• 2+ years of direct supervision of others and previous HR leadership experience required
• 8+ years of increasingly responsible human resources experience and demonstrated HR expertise at manager level preferred
• 2+ years of HR leadership experience preferred
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a complex environment, leveraging internal and external partners to meet the HR needs of the client base
• Strong facilitation, consulting, relationship-building, influence, negotiation skills, and project management skills
• Demonstrated business and analytical ability with a proven ability to build relationships and influence different groups
• Demonstrated implementation and execution ability
• Capability to interact with individuals at all levels within the organization
• Skilled with change processes in complex systems
• Demonstrated conflict resolution skills
• Strong situational assessment and objective evaluation skills
• Advanced written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

• Exercise independent judgment with strong attention to detail
• Analyze, understand and communicate complicated issues to Managers to ensure understanding
• Develop solutions based on best practices and customer feedback
• Solicit input from managers and exercise independent judgment in providing recommendations to the business
• Effectively facilitate discussions with and deliver communications to large groups of people
• Communicate via different channels i.e. via phone, email and other electronic means
• Effectively navigate Workday and Microsoft Office Suite
• Handle multiple concurrent tasks and changing priorities