<h2 style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:18.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-weight:normal">Senior Director HR Strategy and Projects EM</h2> <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0cm 0.0cm 1.0pt 0.0cm"> </div> Job Summary: The Senior Director HR Business Transformation & Head Office will be driving cultural and business transformation for Emerging Markets organization through realigning the culture to EM vision, mission, and core values to achieve its strategic objectives. Manage and deliver projects for HR EM, act as strategic advisor for People elements of cross-functional and cross-cluster initiatives and drive head office activities across HR EM in close alignment with internal counterparts. Drive and manage deliverables for HRSLT and EM SLT to represent the People strategy and plan. Orchestrate key projects, programs and deliverables across EM organization, driving Team planning and target setting and OKC delivery and governance. This role plays a pivotal role to driving HR Business Partner direction and supporting HUB in alignment with EM 7 clusters priorities. As the right-hand person to the VP HR Emerging Markets, the Senior Director is instrumental in co-designing and executing the people strategy and harmonizing employee experiences and HR standards across the region, in partnership with the VP. Key Responsibilities: HR Business Transformation & Head Office <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop and lead the organizational development roadmap across Emerging Markets including cultural transformation agenda, coordinating OE strategy and activities, as well as organising EM action plan deriving from the ELS</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Lead and oversee complex multi-continent business transformation projects in partnership with business development and senior leadership.</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Collaborate with senior leadership to identify opportunities for organizational change and develop and implement transformation plans.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and adaptability to meet evolving business needs. Support in developing a healthy and resilient culture – strong team spirit, agile, embracing change, accountability, collaboration across the organization. </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop and implement change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage of required changes in partnership with the Organizational Effectiveness team</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Act as a credible counterpart for all Head Office roles within HR and the business</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Create and maintain frameworks to execute people activities consistently across Emerging Markets and ensure a consistent drumbeat and tracking across all Emerging Markets functions and clusters.</li> </ul> HR Business Partner Support for EM Market Hubs: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Define HR Direction and drive the HR Support to EM Market Hubs</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure the team alignment with local market needs</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Streamline and harmonize HR standards across the Market while adapting to local nuances. </li> </ul> Leadership and Team Management: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Manage and mentor the team, ensuring their performance and delivery is aligned with global HR direction and organizational objectives</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Set and communicate team goals, provide coaching and guidance, and promote a culture of excellence.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Be the Head Office support to the VP HR Emerging Markets, managing budgetary aspects and facilitating effective team communication.</li> </ul> Strategy and Consultation <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Collaborate with the VP HR Emerging Markets to design and deliver the people strategy for the EM region.</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Play a pivotal role in bringing together various clusters and market hubs to streamline processes, harmonize standards, and optimize employee experience</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide expert HR consultation and guidance to junior HR leaders in the region.</li> </ul> Key Relationships: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">VP HR Emerging Markets</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">HR Senior Leadership Team</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">HR Partners</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Talent and Rewards Partners and Experts</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Talent Acquisition</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">GBS / HR Services and OWM</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Emerging Markets SLT and their teams</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Internal Communications</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Finance </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Business Development </li> </ul> Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Excellent and proven change management / transformation experience</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proven project management skills & ability to coordinate cross-functional project teams from concept to implementation, ideally on an international scale. You will also be able to demonstrate an ability to facilitate problem solving in workshops and teams both physically and virtually.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Business Capabilities: Commercial awareness, customer focus, understanding HR strategy, understanding business, its value chain and key processes</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Proven leader with experience leading people (indirectly or directly) and projects</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Excellent problem-solving skills; demonstrate the ability to apply project management principles and methodologies in seeking solutions to project problems.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills across all levels of the organization</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Creative mind with story-telling skills; able to develop effective communication materials to support change management activities </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to see the strategic big picture, while breaking down the complexity into actionable steps</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong strategic and tactical skills with the ability to focus on the details</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience working across multiple cultures; demonstrates global thinking</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">International, cross-functional and intercultural experience</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong networking and facilitation skills</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Fluent in English; ideally in other languages as well</li> </ul> Qualifications: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">A minimum of 5 years of experience in a Senior HR director role, with a proven track record of managing complex multi-continent business transformation projects.</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">20 years+ expertise in HR business partnering, employee experience, and HR standards harmonization (ideally within and outside sport industry)</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Exceptional leadership, communication, and coaching skills.</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to manage and mentor a remote team effectively.</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience working in Emerging Markets Countries is a plus.</li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong adaptability and agility in a highly complex and volatile market environment.</li> </ul>

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