HR Country Manager

Job Description:

Requisition ID: 65056
Position Type: FT Permanent
Workplace Arrangement:

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition partner for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Working behind the scenes, every day we partner with customers to solve the world's most complex food challenges with our range of differentiated ingredients, technologies, and people. We are passionate about what we do and are constantly innovating to create a healthier, more enjoyable, and sustainable food future without compromise. We are driven to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition and will reach over two billion consumers with sustainable nutrition solutions by 2030.
Our Safety purpose: "we work together in a caring culture where everybody goes home safe every day". We are committed to providing a safe working environment and ensuring that all safety protocols are strictly followed. Join us in creating a workplace where safety is everyone's responsibility.

About the role

As HR Country Manager, you will shape and drive organisational effectiveness priorities aligned with the business growth strategy. You will operate within a diverse landscape, including biotech and manufacturing sites supporting our core technologies, as well as our Innovation Centre in Barcelona and commercial teams. In this role, you will work closely with Global HR Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and Global Shared Services for administrative support. You will act as a strategic HR partner to leaders and employees across the country, supporting both day-to-day operations and long-term organisational objectives. This is a permanent role which can be based in Barcelona, Pinto, Granada or Sevilla. Travel of approximately 15% will be required, depending on business agenda and projects.

Key responsibilities

1/ Organisational Effectiveness
Lead execution of organisational effectiveness priorities aligned with business strategy
Monitor key organisational effectiveness indicators and ensure corrective actions are in place
Coach and partner with business leaders to strengthen organisational effectiveness

2/ Talent Management
Drive talent management priorities aligned with business growth strategy
Shape strategic talent and capability needs; advise and coach leaders on talent pipelining and ensure delivery against key Talent priorities
Partner with COEs on learning and leadership development solutions; coach leaders to improve effectiveness
Define resourcing needs; support and challenge leaders on role requirements
Participate in the selection of critical and leadership roles

3/ Reward
Leverage reward programmes to drive performance and engagement
Partner with Reward COE to address business needs
Advise and coach leaders on total reward decisions
Provide insights to support Reward COE strategy
Support compensation for senior and critical roles

4/ Employee Support
Support and coach leaders to maintain a positive employee and industrial relations environment
Ensure compliance with employee relations standards using data-driven action plans
Provide expertise on complex employee relations cases

5/ Employee Experience
Coach leaders on engagement and people leadership
Support onboarding of senior and critical hires
Support creation and execution of ourVoice engagement plans
Promote an inclusive workplace through proactive collaboration.

Qualifications and skills

* Previous HRBP experience with in depth understanding of Spanish legalisation and employee relations
Delivery of engagement activities and talent management
* Fluent in Spanish and English
* Leading creative and agile problem solving
* High level communication skills and gravitas when dealing with sensitive situations and multiple stakeholders and agendas
* Experienced in influencing senior stakeholders in complex change situations
* Coaching
* Change management experience and proven project management skillset.

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a "starter kit," investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.

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Please note: We do not accept CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies where terms of business have not been signed. Additionally, we will not consider or agree to payment of any recruiter fee under these circumstances. This also applies to CVs or candidate profiles sent directly to any Kerry Hiring Managers. In the event that speculative CVs or candidate profiles are submitted by recruitment agencies, we reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current or future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency