- Advise managers on all staff related matters and guide on employment law issues
- To case manage all discipline, grievance and counselling and to ensure it takes place in line with Company procedures, is fair and reasonable
- Conduct internal investigations where required engaging appropriate internal resources and escalating on high risk or criminal activity
- To monitor all employee relations issues highlighting and identifying areas of concern and taking effective countermeasures.
Recruitment
- To support with recruitment to ensure that advertising of vacancies is designed effectively and works to attract the right calibre of staff
- To manage through exit interviews, succession planning and retention processes
- To provide Management with resourcing trend analysis data, and proactively guiding them to take appropriate measures
- Monitoring the Hiring process and ensure all documentation, interviews are consistent and comply with all legal and ethical standards.
HR & Payroll Administration
- Prepare employment contracts, letters and any other employee related documents
- Process all employee changes in Workday (HRIS)
- Liaise with Global teams and third party vendor on timely processing of monthly payroll and reporting.
Training and Development
- To deliver and facilitate training programs and activities such as onboarding programs, performance appraisals, people management etc.
Talent Management
- To implement and support global Talent Management initiatives. Identify, develop / customize and implement global initiatives within country.
- Supports and implements People Voice (employee survey) within the country. Analyses results and establish improvement initiative in improving People Voice results within country.
- Monthly visits to retail stores, building engagement with retail community, and collecting feedbacks on people related matters.
- Organize relevant events within country to build engagement and employee bonding.
Management Information
- Utilise MI provided by core HR to highlight trends, monitor turnover, absence, employee satisfaction, reward and benefit information etc.
- Deliver a monthly set of reports to the key stakeholders to data on HR related KPIs and trend analysis, with commentary outlining areas of focus
- Analyse the information and ensure that Management fully understand the trends and make recommendations to ensure productivity and profitability
Other
- Share and learn best practices from HR communities in Germany and Switzerland.
- Manage compensation and benefits of people within country, including medical / insurance, leave, incentives, salaries, etc.
- Attends to and provide timely response to people on any enquiry. Ensures that service level are maintained by third party vendors (where relevant).
- Support the HR Europe team as and when needed.
- Update and communicate on changes of people policies to relevant people.
- Keep abreast with country’s regulation and regulatory needs, ensuring compliance to local laws and regulations.
Qualifications and Experience
- A minimum of 5-6 years generalist Human Resources experience, coupled with strong commercial awareness
- Strong knowledge of German (and ideally Swiss) labor regulations
- Experience working in a global matrixed organisation which is customer and sales focused
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
- Good in managing priorities and timelines, and excellent in managing diverse stakeholders
- Knowledge of people management theory and practice such as recruitment and selection, performance management, remuneration and benefits, German Works Councils and general industrial / employee relations
- Independent contributor who is comfortable working independently with minimum supervision
- A person with strong integrity, firm and good with problem solving capability
- Experienced working with HR systems, preferably Workday