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Country HR Lead – Randstad Digital France
The Position
The Country HR Lead is responsible for leading the Randstad Digital HR function in France. The primary role is to develop and execute an innovative HR strategy and proactively focus on strategic business challenges to provide meaningful human capital insights and support to business leaders. The Country HR Lead will advocate and champion the organizational values, culture, and HR service delivery model within the business, delivering future-oriented processes to develop and implement HR programs that directly contribute to the Randstad Digital business agenda.
Main Accountabilities
- Be the business partner to the Managing Director France.
- Be the primary HR contact for all Digital employees within the OpCo (Operating Country).
- Support the hiring, development and retention of key talents and key contributors.
- Manage and harmonize HR policies and processes within Randstad Digital at a country level, ensuring standardization where possible and appropriate.
- Build strong relationships with senior leadership within France and the Country HR Leads from the European region.
- Drive performance management, development and succession processes.
- Support and be a trusted advisor in recruitment processes and development of new recruiting strategies.
- Further develop and implement talent management strategy to attract and keep talents.
- Roll out and maintain compensation programs, conduct salary reviews.
- Manage any insured benefits programmes and annual renewal processes.
- Oversee HR administration and complete reporting activities effectively and accurately.
- Manage and ensure that payroll is compliant with local legislation and delivered within the established timeframe.
- Lead the local business HR team and HR projects across France.
- Work closely with the European HR team to create and deliver appropriate processes to support business goals.
- Support global HR projects and activities as required and lead the local roll-out within France
- Identify improvement opportunities and lead organizational development projects.
- Ensure that all HR activities are in line with legislation, compliance, quality, policies and business requirements.
- Work closely with French unions
Candidate Profile
- Progressive HR leadership experience with a minimum of 10 years.
- Extensive experience with HR strategy and execution.
- Strong experience in dealing and negotiating with the worker's council.
- Expanded practical experience, preferably in a global multinational US company.
- Excellent grasp of employment law and practices for France.
- Ability to inspire people and successfully guide them through country specific issues.
- Ability to create energy and urgency within the team to drive projects and goals to completion.
- Able to challenge and to motivate people, teams and organizations.
- Mindset of continuous improvement and efficiencies, facts based, KPI driven with good grasp of digital tools.
- Strong negotiating skills, resilience, persuasiveness, and a self-confident manner
- Strong communication skills.
- Proactive, team-oriented approach with creativity and flexibility to adapt to changes.
- Structured, pragmatic and result-oriented way of working.
- Strong relationships within HR communities and market.
Additional information
- Sr. Manager - Provides guidance, leadership, or training to other internal employees
- Will report to the Strategic HR Leader Europe
- Functional relation to the Managing Director France
- Regular domestic travel, some international travel as needed
- Fluent in English
Location
- A fully generalist role with a wide variety of tasks primarily focused on business HR
- Interesting development opportunities and excellent exposure in a global company
- A cooperative working atmosphere within a highly motivated team
- The opportunity to make positive changes which shape the future of the French business.
- High level of personal responsibility and independence.
- The support of a wide HR network and local support and guidance of a motivated and energetic management team.
- Attractive employment conditions.
