Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Leadership

Leads and develops the local HR department and is responsible for all HR related matters (HR Partnering, HR Development, Compensation & Benefits, Payroll) for local staff including the HR responsibility for senior executives with global teams.
Implements the global people strategy on a local level and executes and maintains local people policies; prioritizes co-creation vs. local creation and provides input and influences centrally developed solutions/strategies.
Ensures efficient and effective operations of the HR department and the execution of people processes according to global guidelines in partnership with the HR Operations teams in GBS.
Identifies trends and needs in all areas of HR for the business, delivers solutions and implements changes (tools, processes, organization) along the employee life cycle as well as follow up actions (round tables etc.) based on / in close collaboration with HR Operations.
Ensures the delivery of people processes in the organization are constantly improved and consolidated, aligns best practices across borders as part of a virtual team and contributes to global standardization of processes.
Forms an active part of the local leadership team and establishes trustful cooperation with global HR Peers.

Business Partnering Activities for Senior Management

Acts as trusted HR partner and first point of contact and as an ambassador for the People Strategy.
Interact effectively with the business, always seeking solutions and inputting ideas.
Acts as an effective and authentic HR leader and partner, coaches and guides senior management in the provision of credible and commercial solutions for people related organizational matters, using data to influence decision making and brings in the HR perspective to relevant contracts and projects.
Advises managers and HR team towards critical HR related decisions and offers coaching in order to upskill management population.
Secures workforce planning, people and team development in line with business and staff needs and requirements.
Support or leads change management processes within the departments (reorganization) and supporting LM in their role.
Supports the development and implementation of our Equality, Diversity & inclusion journey, all wellbeing activities and other topics form the people strategy.
Ensures alignment of people management across HR by working closely with all other relevant HR colleagues including Global HR and Corporate HR, as key strategic partners, to foster an aligned ONE Swarovski employee experience.

Employee Relations

Responsible for establishing a functioning management of all employee relations.
Acts a decision maker for escalating case management and establishes consistent and risk management for the organization (including support for GM in case of crisis management).
Scanning the market for updates and best practices, policies and procedures.
Ensures a local HR organization which complies with legislation and business requirements, owns updates and amendments of policies and procedures in line with legislation changes and business requirements.
Defines and decides collaboration and legally binding rules with works council and unions, as applicable.

We are looking for a unique and amazing talent, who brings along the following:

University degree (master’s degree preferred) in any business studies, plus relevant professional HR qualification or equivalent certification.
Minimum 6-8 years of professional experience with at least 5 years in a leadership role managing HR team and functions.
Fluent in English & Japanese (both written and spoken) to effectively communicate with local employees, management and global stakeholders.
Established skills and broad knowledge across all HR disciplines, including employee relations, organizational development, and change management.
Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills across all levels of the organization.

Head of HR

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