• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Level
• 2 or more years of progressive P&O or HR experience
• Substantial ability to developing strong trusting relationships with leaders to gain support and achieve P&O strategic goals
• Advanced consulting skills and ability to influence decisions to a positive business outcome
• Comprehensive experience in development and implementation of strategic initiatives through to execution while acting as an employee champion and change agent
• Understanding of global HR strategies/policies/legal/ethic/compliance policies and practices and ability to provide guidance in solving business needs
• Self-driven curious and able to navigate ambiguity while maintaining clear priorities

What will be your key responsibilities

Strategic Partnering and Leadership Coaching

• Partner with West Europe leadership team and Line Managers to drive business results through targeted people strategies workforce planning and change management
• Provide expert advice and coaching on leadership style people management and change leadership balancing associate advocacy with business priorities.
• Leverage external insights internal data and organisational knowledge to proactively shape the people agenda based on West Europe business needs.

Talent Management Performance Management and Recruiting :

• Support end-to-end talent planning processes including succession planning talent reviews and follow-up activities (e.g. development plans) for West Europe cluster
• Advise Line Manager on performance management processes and help them to identify development and performance issues early (in Collaboration with AR). Support calibration to ensure consistency and fairness.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and Line Management to ensure timely and strategic recruitment aligned with workforce planning needs in My P&O countries. Lead the Recruiting Process for Non My P&O countries. Partner with Business and Talent Acquisition to position Royal Canin West West Europe as an employer of choice.
• Drive internal mobility capability building and leadership development.

Culture Engagement & Change Management

• Advise Line Managers on running effective engagement sessions based on Associate Survey results
• Elevate line manager capability and support the GLM community including engagement events line manager coaching and advisory support
• Co-own the cluster-wide engagement and wellbeing agenda ensuring insight-led action and measurable improvement.
• Champion behavioral shift that supports the engagement and wellbeing of Associates propose initiatives and ensure implementation/program deployment.

Data Analytics and Workforce Planning

• Ensure proper workforce planning for West Europe cluster based on Regional targets.
• Together with P&O Operations role leverage HR metrics prepare dashboards and reports to support talent insights and decision making.

Work Council engagement & Community

• Build and maintain a strong collaborative relationship with Works Council in NL based on transparency trust and mutual respect and represent P&O in negotiations.
• Actively contribute to the One Mars P&O Community sharing insights building synergies and scaling what works across the region.

What can you expect from Mars

• Work with diverse and talented Associates all guided by The Five Principles.

• Join a purpose driven company where were striving to build the world we want tomorrow today.

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one including access to our in-house Mars University.

• An industry competitive salary and benefits package including company bonus.

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