ELC Manager Americas

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

Employee Life Cycle Manager Americas and part of our Employee Experience Services section of our Global Business Centre, you will be responsible for leading a team of highly skilled Specialists on a journey to be a world class service delivery team, ensuring a right first time approach through innovative ways of working and the elimination of waste all the while delivering standardised, customer-centric services and solutions to our Employees and our People Managers across the globe. 

Key responsibilities

•    Providing true expert knowledge and guidance to all Tier 1 in the Employee & Manager Support section of the Global Business Centre, on the future/emerging strategy for HR case management, HR Support and administration on our journey to become a “Best in Class” service centre continuously improving employee experience and making it easier for our People.
•    Analysing leading practice, market trends and benchmarking to bring innovative thinking to the delivery of Employee Relations & Manager Support services to the countries under your domain. 
•    Analysing relevant internal metrics to provide insight in to current and future team performance; adapting and improving the service in an agile and responsive way, aligned to the Kerry GBS framework. •    Owning the Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan for the continued operation of all HR support services and Tier 2 contact levels in countries under your domain in case of unforeseen emergencies
•    Creating and leading a high performing team to achieve KPI/SLA targets and deliver outstanding operational results. 
•    Being able to drive talent and performance through setting clear objectives, managing performance and creating opportunities for the team
•    Demonstrate a deep knowledge of the Kerry GBS framework and service model, and associated tools and systems (such as self-service Knowledge base and virtual Agent functionality, online document repositories etc.) and use this knowledge to ensure excellent cross functional working and collaboration with all relevant COEs and partner functions.. 
•    Create and maintain a culture of Continuous Excellence across your team by enabling an environment of continued growth and development, implementing continuous excellence tools and routines and ensuring representation of the Tier 2 section in Continuous Excellence Pillar groups.
•    Lead the simplification and standardisation of ways of working and processes based on industry leading practices.
•    Own the relevant process documentation, training material, measures definition, and ensure they are up-to-date and applied by Tier 2 Teams across the organization. 
•    Champion a customer focused, efficient and cost-effective function with quick turnaround through optimal use of technology, automation and lean processes. 

Qualifications and skills

-    PowerPoint to tell a story and make a case for change 
-    Word to build template documents, business plans and branded GBS materials -    Outlook to apply rules and manage folders, scheduling and diaries, build standardised templates and manage processes
-    Excel including Fx functions, Pivots, charts, data analysis 
-    Visio to create and maintain process documentation
-    Sharepoint to create and manage sites and content, upload shared materials and share and engage with projects and other functions
-    PowerBI to analyse dashboards, team performance, trends and patterns to support business decision making
•    Previous experience with SAP Successfactors HRIS and ServiceNow HR Service Delivery suite would be a significant advantage

 

Legal / Regulatory -
    •    Expert knowledge of relevant employment law, and local regulations and confident on training and advising others of the same - both within and outside of the GBS.
•    Expert knowledge of GDPR and data privacy laws, Immigration and visa requirements, Working time practices and limits, Employee relations case law, disciplinary, grievance and long-term absence best practises, Statutory / Health and Safety / Ethical best practise and audit requirements

 

Development of self and others
•    Comfortable ensuring all stakeholders are fully trained on correct/relevant user processes to ensure a 'right first time' way of working. 
•    Confident giving both targeted feedback to individuals and small groups and widespread feedback to larger communities where education and strategic improvements are required to ensure processes continue to be effective and efficient •    Proactively use problem solving skills to help drive the GBS development agenda and roll out  large scale education and training programmes. 

Language and communication     •    High level of English language proficiency as this is Kerry's most widely spoken language.
•    Confidently able to successfully deliver services and have high quality interactions with Business Partners and Customer groups.
•    Able to select the most appropriate method of communication to any given situation and tailor approach accordingly to ensure the most receptive audience and the best likelihood of influence and success. •    Proficiency in one or more additional foreign language would be a significant advantage (in particular Indonesian Bahasa, Chinese, Thai, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Dutch , Spanish, Polish, Porteguese)

 

Qualifications/Experience    

•    5+ Years Experience, Bachelors Degree

Key Stakeholders    

•    Employees, Managers, Global Experience & Soltuion Lead – Employee & Manager Support Services, relevant CoE’s, HR Business Partners, Operations, Finance,  3rd party vendors & Regulatory bodies