The Role

Grade: Tariff group ETV 24-26 up to GG7 depending on qualification and experience.

Location: Hamburg

Principal Accountabilities

• Provide Employee Relations advice, guidance and case management for: Policies, Discipline, Grievances, Appeals, PIPs, complex leaver case
• Provide advice and guidance to people leaders on resourcing activity, including local job evaluation and grading, and coaching on interviewing where needed
• Support activities across the employee lifecycle e.g. connected performance, talent and succession planning at local levels
• Manage local reward, compensation, and job evaluation for employees and liaises with the Reward CoE on benchmarking for Global Grades utilising the Global Job Framework
• Manage IME associated processes in conjunction with Global Mobility and where applicable the Strategic BP
• Provide tactical support to organisational changes and projects e.g. supporting consultation processes and managing people transition activities including but not limited to redundancy & settlement paperwork
• Ensure compliance with local legislation and promoting best practice, maintaining existing P&C policies and suggesting improvements and / or new policies to align with P&C strategic initiatives, improve our employee value proposition and drive operational excellence of P&C across the business, utilising internal and external insights
• Support the annual performance management processes by coaching managers, ensuring consistency, fairness and understanding holistically of connected performance
• Acting as an advocate for the wider P&C function and collaborating with P&C Operations, Strategic Business Partners and CoEs teams
• Collaboratively work with the wider P&C team on local and global projects e.g. I belong campaign, Employee Experience
• Support the change journey by advocating colleagues and People Leaders use of P&C technology and new ways of working
• Partners and coaches People Leader on recruitment best practice, salary management principles and signs off on offer process

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 5 years professional experience as People Partner in an international environment, ideally FMCG industry
• Strong operational and working knowledge of local employment legislation and best practice employee relations to be bale to handle ER cases independently
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, sound professional judgement, decision making and understanding of key P&C policies and processes
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to quickly build rapport, influencing stakeholders at all levels
• Can balance competing demands and manage time and workload to focus on and deliver the key priorities
• Ability to work in a global matrix environment, to translate and present P&C initiatives to business stakeholders and to interpret and analyse data to inform data led decision making and insights
• Professional HR Qualification or equivalent University/Bachelor Degree
• Fluency in English (both written and verbal)
• Experience of an unionised/works council environment

Next Steps

We look forward to your application. For further information please contact Julia Althoff

and Pauline Tute (Partnering Services Lead Germany & Cluster DACH) or the Works Council.

Interested applicants should apply via our internal careers page

(imptob.sharepoint.com/sites/wt-functions-HumanRescources/Pages/All-Other-Vacancies.aspx)