HR Specialist / HR Generalist

Contract period: 27.05.2024 - 26.11.2024

Location: Tananger

Main Tasks:

• Collaborate with Labour and Employee Relations Centre of Excellence to successfully implement Labor & Employee Relations policies and framework for a geographic and business area. 
• Adhere to advised L&ER strategy, guidelines, and execute day-to-day L&ER activities at the local level applying knowledge of current legal requirements to ensure regulatory compliance, including:
• Receive employee complaints, arrange stakeholders for investigations, determine mitigation actions, and action together with the L&ER CoE. 
• Performance Management Partnership; with clear goals and milestones, coach manager through delivering and administering the PIP, and progressing mediation actions if PIP unsuccessfully met. Collaborate with L&ER CoE as needed. 
• Provide guidance and expertise to managers seeking to terminate employment, advise on risk, create required documentation, facilitate legal reviews when needed, support management to execute termination, and ensure local notifications to government entities are completed. Collaborate with L&ER CoE as needed. 
• Be a focal point for CBA liaison and provide negotiations input together with Business/Regional Leaders and guided by the L&ER CoE; coordinate with TR as required and provide new CBA details to HR Delivery teams for contract amendment process.
• Site assessment owner on an as needed basis. 
• Act as focal point for HR with external labor office inspection team, planned or unplanned inspection
• Talent and Operational Excellence
• The role will focus on first class customer service as part of the Region or Product Line Leadership Team and partner with the business to shape the people infrastructure and culture needed to attract, engage and retain the very best talent.
• Participate in, and be a key contributor at key management discussions and provide HR input for strategic business/regional projects, long-term planning and budgeting processes as well as the employee engagement initiatives on the ground.
• Provide input and guidance to the business on workforce planning and reorganisations inclusive M&A, restricting, bid process, scoping & planning
• Provide regional guidance and perspective on employee movements i.e. promotions, salary changes and workforce planning; assist with execution of these activities to ensure timely pipelining of quality talent to meet business needs.
• Support any potential HR diligence and integration initiatives as part of overall transformation as well as other HR initiatives.
• Evolve HR programs and practices across the region including Project Management for business HR initiatives.
• Provide recommendations for regional HR policies in line with local legislations and collaboration with relevant COEs.
• Communicate to the relevant stakeholders should there be any change/ update in the existing policy.
• Identify the opportunity areas for Tier 0 expansion, create knowledge articles, update country HR manuals and support the relevant escalated Tier 2 cases within the predefined SLAs for your allocated regional/product line area.

Qualifications:

• An accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) – for UK roles, or a bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management, Psychology, or Business-related subject
• Ability to balance between being 'hands on' and 'strategic'.
• Strong previous experience handling Unions and Industrial Relations
• Talent obsessed - passionate about bringing the best out of people and proven record of deploying talent strategies in support of business growth
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, assertive by conviction and collaborative by nature with strong people skills.
• Strong commercial acumen, analytical ability and use of data to provide key business insights.
• Have good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• A strong client focus and the ability to build good relationships and engage with business leaders
• Experience working in a matrix environment, with the agility to attend to multiple demands and shifting priorities, and deal with ambiguity and rapid change
• A good understanding of digital technology and the impact and opportunities that it creates to delivery excellence customer experience.