
Head of HR Americas
- Chicago, IL
- $150,000-200,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Working with the HRD of Countries & Functions to ensure transformation, talent pipeline and M&A is delivered and value optimised.
- Working with the local country heads to ensure effective resourcing to deliver client services, by optimising onboard, reducing attrition and absence and ensuring root cause analysis is conducted for leavers.
- Responsible for comprehensive HR support for managers and employees, easy to access policies and procedures for the region and ensuring managers are effective in supporting their colleagues.
- Working with manager to ensuring employment relations are dealt with according to legislation, in a timely and efficient manner. Discussing people challenges and ensuring managers are aware of the correct process.
- Provide labor law knowledge and expertise, ensuring compliance and best practice.
- Question and challenge managers to get to the root of people and business issues, using evidence and data (attrition, absence and utilisation etc) identify people priorities and develop solutions.
- Coach and provide feedback to key stakeholders to help improve business efficiency.
- Champion performance management to increase management expertise and realisation.
- Adopt a strong coaching approach to work with stakeholders.
- Act as local point of people expertise for teams implementing new people approaches.
- Proactive leadership and problem resolution
- Lead employment relations activity in a timely and effective manner, expert in employment law and local regulations
- Sense of urgency and responsibility to resolve, learn and improvement the experience
- Effective data led approach to forecasting and identifying HR issues
- Proactive and curious approach to HR systems and data handling through excel expertise
- Strong commercial background and focus, able to identify risk and solution required
- Experience of providing HR services in a complex global, matrixed environment.
- Experience of HR delivery within a professional services or financial services organisation.
- Labour law knowledge and experience of handling complex employment relations cases across a wide range of geographies and cases.
- Career experience of working in another function other than HR, to ensure a wide range of business capability.
- SHRM Certificate
- Degree in related field
- We are CLIENT CENTRIC – Clients are at the centre of our world, and we’re committed to providing expertise and specialist solutions to meet their most complex challenges.
- We are AMBITIOUS – We aim high. We think and act globally, seizing every opportunity to delight our clients and support our colleagues - wherever in the world they may be.
- We are AGILE – We act on our initiative to get things done for our clients. Our independence gives us the flexibility and freedom to keep things simple, efficient and effective.
- We are COLLABORATIVE – With a curious mindset, we ask the right questions to get to the right solution, for our clients faster. We collaborate to win together and share our successes.
- We are ETHICAL – We behave with integrity at all times and assume positive intent, building trust through responsible actions and honest relationships.