Senior Director, HR Business Partner EMEA Central

Leadout Capital; München; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director Employee Success Business Partner for Central EMEA, to advise, shape People Strategy, and lead initiatives aligning with organizational design, change leadership, and leadership development. You will partner with COEs and HRBPs to deliver comprehensive HR support across distributed teams and ensure exceptional employee experiences.

The role requires deep HRBP expertise, strong business acumen, and ability to influence decisions at all levels, while

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of HR business partner experience at senior leadership level.
• Experience in managing and developing teams and building high-performing HR professionals.
• Ability to influence decision makers and lead complex initiatives across an organization.
• Strong communication, storytelling with data, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Operate as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and influence priorities across functions.
• Provide coaching and development to senior leaders to strengthen leadership teams.
• Act as a change-agent as the organization reshapes for an exceptional employee and customer experience.
• Lead complex HR initiatives including retention, succession planning, organizational design, and compensation planning.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Change management

Organizational design

Employee engagement

Succession planning

Data-driven decisions

Presentation skills

Influence

Stakeholder management

Tools

Google Sheets

Google Slides

Job description

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good– you’ve come to the right place.

We are seeking a Senior Director Employee Success Business Partner to provide a full range of HR business support to our Central EMEA Teams with strong alignment to distribution and partnership to the Central Operating Unit LT. This hire will work closely with the HRBPs, Centers of Excellence (COEs) and vital team members to advise, drive strategy and influence client groups on topics involving, but not limited to, People Strategy, Equality, Organizational Design & Development, Change leadership, Engagement and Retention, Leader Development and Coaching, all while orchestrating solutions. This role will partner closely with COEs, HRBPs and global teams to identify, design and implement HR initiatives that support the business needs of the organization. The ideal candidate is interested in making a significant impact in several critical business areas in the function; excels in a fast paced, ever changing environment; and is looking to work with a strong HR Business Partner team.

Your Impact:

• Operates as a trusted advisor by using professional credibility and positive relationships with senior leaders to influence key priorities.

• Strengthen the leadership team of each organization by providing coaching and development to senior leaders.

• Act as a change-agent as the business continues to reshape itself with a goal of providing a world class customer and employee experience.

• Lead complex initiatives where the impact is significant in supporting the client's needs. Initiatives include employee retention, talent assessment, succession planning, organizational design, compensation planning (equity, bonus, merit), and leadership development.

• Promote People Strategies that align with the business goals focusing on the talent needed to complete the vision. Deliver results through development, succession planning, career development, skills gap analysis etc.

• Partner with and between COE’s and regional HR teams to deliver seamless human resources processes and programs across the organization. Leverage all HR programs, policies, processes and systems.

• Provide client with analysis of client organizations' "health" by looking at trends in performance, employee satisfaction, attrition, diversity etc.

• Demonstrate proficiency in and partnership with other functional areas of Human Resources.

• As a member of the ESBP team, this role may also create cross-functional initiatives and must be able to think beyond aligned client group for broader impact and understanding.

Required Qualifications:

• 8 - 10 years of related Human Resource Business Partner experience (Senior Director)

• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

• Proven experience in managing and developing teams, with a track record of building high-performing HR professionals

• Demonstrated track record of developing effective relationships across all levels of the organization and with diverse client groups.

• Strong business acumen.

• Demonstrated ability to drive major initiatives through the organization and influence decision makers at all levels.

• Ability to be proactive, to anticipate and provide alternatives and options to the business.

• Ability to diagnose and successfully handle organizational development issues.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; must be an eloquent and persuasive communicator.

• Excellent interpersonal, group, process and influence skills.

• Ability to prepare and make senior level presentations, and build a narrative based on collection and analysis of data. Should have knowledge of Google products (Sheets, Slides etc)

• Ability to conduct group facilitation, and coach and counsel management at all levels.

• Experience in leadership development and being a trusted advisor to Sr Leader level.

• Ability to partner with various COEs to build an equality strategy and other key initiatives for the organization you partner with

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

• Ability to work with both onsite and distributed teams effectively.

• Demonstrated experience in working with Labour Relations / Unions & Works Councils

• Knowledge of federal, state and local laws, statutes, etc. which govern employment policies and practices.

• Knowledge of staffing and compensation strategies, practices and processes.

• Ability and desire to operate with a high degree of flexibility.

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