Hiring Manager: Sylvain Cotin
Talent Acquisition Advisor: Ioana Marcu
Job Code Level: HPM3
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Your impact
The Director, HR acts as a trusted consultant and partner to a large COE (Romania) client group, across all aspects of talent planning and management. Reporting to the Sr HRD, Human Resources for EMEA, the Director works in partnership with multiple senior leaders, as well as HR Centers of Excellence (COE’s) to define needs, co-create talent solutions, and provide business lens input to the development of global people strategies.
The role is accountable for providing strategic and operational advice and recommendations to the business leaders on a range of HR matters, including: talent retention and development, workforce planning, organizational design, strategic initiatives, leadership development and pipelining and diversity and inclusion. The Director will drive innovative solutions to a variety of business/talent problems and lead the development of new initiatives in support of the business talent agenda.

What the role offers

• Understand business strategy, goals, and priorities, talent risks, and industry trends, to assess needs and barriers to drive business performance by developing and delivering people strategy and solutions. Provide meaningful guidance and insights to support business planning
• Facilitate and support leadership pipeline discussions (gap analysis, succession planning, etc) aimed at developing future leaders
• Serve as a strategic advisor and change agent related to business initiatives, using business insights and engagement measures to facilitate change
• Advise on organizational design and structures
• Lead the relationships with assigned senior leaders on behalf of the global HR function
• Partner with COEs to effectively provide business context as the COE designs, develops, and implements talent-related programs (e.g., performance assessment planning, talent management activities including assessment of potential and succession planning, compensation reviews, etc.)
• Act as a liaison to positively influence and align the agendas of both the business and HR and to ensure the business context is communicated and understood by the COEs
• Provide thoughtful and effective coaching to leaders on all aspects of leadership, and coach leaders to manage and maximize the skills/capabilities of their team members to create a high-performance culture
• Proactively seek out relationships with other stakeholders (business operations, FP, Site Leaders, etc)
• Partnership with the functional (Global) HRBPs and the HR COEs to ensure that the business context is applied to day-to-day talent management activities
• Interpret and analyze talent metrics and data to assist in making appropriate business decisions and recommendations (eg: RTO, Pulse Surveys…)
• Use data predictively to drive workforce planning strategy in partnership with senior leaders by proactively identifying resourcing issues and making recommendations based on predictive modelling and analytics
• Understand external talent/workforce trends as applicable to the LOB, such as contingent workforce trends, off/onshoring solutions
• Stay current with labour compliance for the region and ensure effective planning to mitigate risk to the company and comply with all regulatory requirements in a timely manner in partnership with the HR COEs and other stakeholder groups (Finance)
• Demonstrate personal leadership through personal ownership for the success of the organization, achieved through candor, creative debate and listening, coaching, and a commitment to self-improvement

What you need to succeed

• Proven ability and progressively responsible and related experience in an HRBP or combined HRBP/COE capacity
• Ability to adapt to a high-change, fast-paced environment. Experience working in the technology sector, preferably in a professional services environment, and prior experience with M is an asset
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Strong relationship management, influence, and consulting skills, with proven ability to build trust across a diverse population of leaders and stakeholders
• Applied knowledge and understanding of best-in-class HR practices and solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to be clear, precise, and compelling
• Advanced creativity and critical-thinking skills
• Proven ability to drive results with resiliency
• Ability to lead and engage with a people-focused, non-hierarchical style, aimed at coaching and facilitating ideas
• Able to deal with ambiguity, amongst multiple projects and competing priorities
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand details and apply them to big picture concepts
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education/experience
• MBA and consulting, and/or business experience, will be considered an asset

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• Understand business strategy, goals, and priorities, talent risks, and industry trends, to assess needs and barriers to drive business performance by developing and delivering people strategy and solutions. Provide meaningful guidance and insights to support business planning
• Facilitate and support leadership pipeline discussions (gap analysis, succession planning, etc) aimed at developing future leaders
• Serve as a strategic advisor and change agent related to business initiatives, using business insights and engagement measures to facilitate change
• Advise on organizational design and structures
• Lead the relationships with assigned senior leaders on behalf of the global HR function
• Partner with COEs to effectively provide business context as the COE designs, develops, and implements talent-related programs (e.g., performance assessment planning, talent management activities including assessment of potential and succession planning, compensation reviews, etc.)
• Act as a liaison to positively influence and align the agendas of both the business and HR and to ensure the business context is communicated and understood by the COEs
• Provide thoughtful and effective coaching to leaders on all aspects of leadership, and coach leaders to manage and maximize the skills/capabilities of their team members to create a high-performance culture
• Proactively seek out relationships with other stakeholders (business operations, FP, Site Leaders, etc)
• Partnership with the functional (Global) HRBPs and the HR COEs to ensure that the business context is applied to day-to-day talent management activities
• Interpret and analyze talent metrics and data to assist in making appropriate business decisions and recommendations (eg: RTO, Pulse Surveys…)
• Use data predictively to drive workforce planning strategy in partnership with senior leaders by proactively identifying resourcing issues and making recommendations based on predictive modelling and analytics
• Understand external talent/workforce trends as applicable to the LOB, such as contingent workforce trends, off/onshoring solutions
• Stay current with labour compliance for the region and ensure effective planning to mitigate risk to the company and comply with all regulatory requirements in a timely manner in partnership with the HR COEs and other stakeholder groups (Finance)
• Demonstrate personal leadership through personal ownership for the success of the organization, achieved through candor, creative debate and listening, coaching, and a commitment to self-improvemen