The EMEA People & Culture Manager will lead HR activities for the European division, offering guidance on employment laws, managing performance reviews, onboarding, and employee relations. The role involves enhancing team dynamics, improving employee retention through proactive measures, and collaborating with a global workforce while developing compliant HR policies.
Summary:
The EMEA P&C Manager will be the People & Culture leader for our European division. This critical role will provide guidance for the company, leaders, employees on all HR-related activities. The ideal candidate will have expert knowledge of all employment matters and laws in order to provide “First Principles” guidance as a co-pilot to Senior Leaders while balancing the interests of the employees when creating new policies and programs. This leader is highly proactive about addressing people's issues and does not shy away from getting into the complexity of team dynamics with a goal of driving high performance and engagement.
Your Day-to-Day Includes:
- Supporting a high performance culture by bringing the D20 (Disconnect-2-Zero) between employees and managers through ongoing coaching and feedback
- Performance & Talent Management - Facilitates the performance review process and ensures talent management is ongoing and that managers are effectively delivering feedback and all performance related actions including promotions, improvement plans and terminations.
- Retention of Top Performers - Conducts proactive check ins, pulse surveys, stay interviews, round table discussions and develops action plans to champion progressive change.
- Delivery of the new hire orientation and onboarding program, ensuring employees at all levels are enabled for success started with day 1 orientation.
- Employee Relations - Manage any works councils or legal HR actions for employees. Employee Event Coordination - Oversee the hosting of employee events, happy hours, training, off-site events.
- People Operations - Develops policies, playbooks and programs in compliance with the law. Maintains employee data accuracy and executes all back-end HR processes related to employee changes.
- Global Mobility - Manage the international transfer process of employees from other regions into Poland and vice versa.
- Partners extensively with a global workforce (EMEA, India, US) including the Employee Experience team, Strategy & Operations, People Operations, and internal stakeholders.
You're a great fit if:
- You possess a "Win-Win-Win Mentality" - Is proactive about addressing concerns and proposing balanced decision making between the employee, manager and company.
- You operate with "Speed & Accuracy In Decision Making through First Principles" - Brings solutions and not challenges to the table during discussions. Relies on past experience to bring depth but customizes a solution to fit what HighRadius is trying to achieve.
- You can "Hop on the Roller Coaster" & possess grit - Can lead through changes, is humble enough to jump in and do everything from HR administrative duties to critical thinking sessions and agile enough to do it with a high sense of urgency.
Desired skills and experience:
- Bachelor's Degree plus any applicable HR certifications
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience in high-growth organizations that embrace change, SaaS preferred
- Extensive knowledge in local European employment laws
- High proficiency in Google Suite - Sheets, Docs, etc.
- Comfortable with learning new technology and HR systems
Top Skills
Google Suite
HighRadius London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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