People Partner Manager, Poland

Unilever is currently looking for People Partner Manager!

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.   

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our, collaborative, and flexible working environment. Our organizational ambition centers around creating workplaces that foster equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging across all aspects of our business. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.  

JOB PURPOSE

A People Partner Manager plays a crucial role within PEX and has full line management responsibilities. The role sets the bar high for the team and drives performance across employee experience-related matters in the market.

They collaborate and influence various teams within and outside the HR network to ensure the PEX objective of effectiveness, excellence, and experience is met.

The role involves guiding and leading the team in ensuring that employee policies, practices, and programs are consistently applied where relevant and up to date with labour law regulations.

As a manager, he/she is ultimately accountable for ensuring that each leader has the right level of support in critical moments wherever needed (e.g., performance, grievance, disciplinary, conflict), coaching, supporting, and even leading complex case management for senior leaders where needed.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

People & Stakeholder Management Responsibilities:

• Line management of a team of PEX People Partners, ensuring that the team is equipped with the right capability and capacity to meet the highest performance standards

• Own team’s day-to-day activities and performance governance with the Hub for people experience service delivery in-market

• Support with critical escalations from the team in areas of:

  • Employee relations & conflict resolution

  • Compliance and legal matters

  • Complex case management

  • Country Contact

• Employee relations & conflict resolution

  • Provide coaching and support to senior leaders in the organisation

  • Provide guidance on the approach to employee relations cases

  • Ensure the team is up to date on employee relations practices and policies

  • Lead the proactive identification of trends and coach line managers, recommending solutions to address root causes of issues. This will include building leader and organisation capability where required, to reduce employee relations incidents/issues.

• Compliance and legal matters

  • Ensure on-site application of employment law to ensure compliance with legal, fiscal, and regulatory requirements.

  • Ensure on-site hire-to-retire process, ensuring adherence to legal, fiscal, and regulatory standards.

  • Ensure that each employee has the right level of support in critical moments wherever needed (e.g. Key ER cases/escalations)

• Complex case management

  • Ensure consistent application of HR policies and practices to resolve all complex policy matters and decisions across the business, including flexible working, absence, and leave management. This is enabled by ensuring an end-to-end understanding of HR processes.

  • Guide approach on restructuring efforts at the employee level, including conducting severance conversations

• Liaison & Country Contact               

  • First point of contact for global teams where support onsite is required

  • Oversee relevant input and support on knowledge management requirements to enable our Service Delivery Model.

Experiences & Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent. 

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in HR (e.g. HR Advisor, HR Generalist, HRBP)

• Experience working with HR systems, processes, and solutions

• Experience of leading/managing a team

• Big-picture thinker, confident in taking decisions that will impact culture, policy and ways of working

• Ability to demonstrate resilience in challenging/difficult situations

• Coaching knowledge and skills – for individual and leadership situations

• Has a genuine passion for developing people and delivering business performance  

• Strong organization skills, as well as attention to detail and diligence

• Ability to work in a matrix teamwork environment

Skills

• Stakeholder Management

• Collaboration

• Complex Problem Solving

• Risk Management

• Change Management

• Growth mindset
  

OUR OFFER

• Employment Contractwith an annual bonus, benefit car, and eligibility for our company shares program.

• A learning-focused environment that supports your personal and professional development.

• Private medical care (Medicover)

• Retirement package

• Private life insurance (Unum)

• Sports package (Benefit Systems)

• 2 additional vacation days

• Access to the Unilever employee shop

• Access to Legimi (e-book platform)

• Psychological supportvia the EAP platform

• And many more!

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.