Senior People Partner, Hempel France

At Hempel we are committed to shaping a brighter future for our employees, customers and environment alike. Continuous organic growth coupled with clear progress within acquisitions, customer partnerships and our sustainability agenda are the foundations.

If you want to play a key role in enabling Hempel and our leaders deliver on this strategy, if trusted advisory comes natural to you and you know your way around your HR tool box, then this role might just be right next career move for you?

As Senior People Partner in France and responsibility for Morocco as well, you will become part of a dedicated team of eight colleagues in the Europe Continental team. Your role will be based in France (preferably Paris area) and you will report to the Head of People Partnering, Europe Continental.

Being part of a Global People & Culture Organization

Across the People Partnering organization we help attract, grow and retain remarkable employees. As a Senior People Partner, you will be an advocate for our culture and values. You will partner up with business leaders, helping them build and develop their organizations, making sure that all people decisions are sound, sustainable and data driven. You’ll also play an essential role in advancing a more diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce in Hempel, securing this through our hiring, promotion, retention practices.

Collaborating closely with Strategic Business Partners and COE functions across People & Culture, you will help execute on People Strategies, Yearly P&C processes as well as project and tasks throughout our joiner, mover and leaver processes, incl. playing a key role in implementation of Global P&C Programs within compensation, performance, and talent management.

Whether it be coaching on people matters, navigating and resolving employee relations issues or managing global P&C programs, you are consistently focused on being business- and solution oriented.

Main responsibilities

As a Senior People Partner, you will engage with designated business areas and manage their HR agenda with the following main focus areas:

• Effectively partner up with business leaders, providing full range support on People and Culture lifecycle activities, incl. annual performance-, organizational- and compensation reviews
• Collaborate with Strategic Business Partners (who support Top Management) on implementation of Functional People Strategies
• Understand business priorities and identify how P&C can drive value creation in pursuit of Company goals
• Being P&C representative in Work Councils in France and Morocco
• Collaborate with Colleagues across the P&C organization from Regional People Partner teams throughout People Operations teams and Centre’s of Excellence teams on delivery of projects and tasks
• Counselling and execution within the following area of expertise: Career, performance & talent management, review processes, coaching, data analysis, compensation and rewards, employee relations, conflict grievance and dispute resolution, learning and development, recognition programs and engagement surveys
• Conduct workshops and presentations on different HR topics
• Act as talent broker and encourage internal career mobility

We are looking for a data driven people partner, who understands how to build trusted relationships and be a catalyst for change and value creation

To succeed in the role as Senior People Partner we imagine that you come from a similar position within a larger global organization, are used to working in a matrix set-up and have solid HRBP experience from deployment of annual HR wheel activities to every day case resolution in especially France and Morocco. You possess strong business acumen, are good at linking P&C priorities with business goals and are keen on driving value creation. You furthermore have experience within change management and organizational development and hold an ability to think strategically while at the same time are able to translate this into implementable actions. You are good at building trusted relationships and are a natural “go-to person” because you get things done. You thrive at developing and improving P&C activities, linked to overall business purposes. You can identify challenges and play an advisory role in addressing them, while ensuring that implemented solutions make a real difference. Lastly, you hold a relevant academic degree and are fluent in English.

Application and further information 

To apply for this position, please submit your application letter with a CV in English via our recruitment system by clicking the link ‘Apply‘. Final deadline for applications is 31st of August 2024. 

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