Country HR Manager Belgium

**Where you fit in**

As the Country HR Manager for Shell Belgium and Luxemburg, you are accountable for translating global strategies at a local level, and you execute the delivery of the people agendas within a local context, including alignment with local regulations, ER/IR strategies, individual case management, and compliance requirements. You serve as the spider in the web for all ongoing HR activities and initiatives, and you lead a team of HR professionals, both in ER/IR and Payroll. You also drive the transformation of the HR Operating Model in relation to the SBO’s. You serve as a thought leader to the Country Chair and the Country Coordination Team. You are accountable for value creation and protection; and risk/exposure management.

**What is the role?**

**1. Business Partnering**
- Collaborate with Country HR colleagues and/or HRBPs across Business and/or Function on delivery of business and people priorities.
- Design, develop and implement specific interventions, solutions or programmes in support of the People Agenda for the country.
- Define and contract the blend of HR (or other functional) resources locally required to deliver the agenda and contract with resources to deliver business-critical requirements.
- Manage and co-ordinate delivery of defined interventions - leading cross-functional, cross-country and virtual team members where needed.
- Manage cost-effective and timely local delivery of critical business change initiatives, such as:

- Country-specific organisational redesign and implementation including liaison with Country HR ER/IR and HR Operations specialists.
- Implementation of country-specific D&I initiatives.
- HR IT Transformation journeys, including payroll system optimisations, process migrations and Workday roll-out
- Interventions following regulatory changes, CLA negotiation outcomes or otherwise
- Drive the integrated capability plan and people agenda locally for a business, function or asset
- Ensure that core capabilities are built.
- Provide expertise/coaching for leadership to enhance/develop capability of senior leaders regarding engagement, team leadership and performance.

**2. Employee engagement/Change/culture**
- Develop and build the culture (norms) appropriate for the country strategy
- Drive Employee Engagement for the country
- Connected into the business plan, general engagement & community building to more clearly split.
- Add value by ensuring that line managers can achieve their strategic objectives and behave consistently with the organisation’s values and culture.
- Drive organisational performance.

**3. Derive insights**
- HRBPs derive insights from data (analytics) and use this to drive relevant action
- External/Outside in - relevant business context/developments (external mindset)

**4. Provide input to COEs**
- Ensure appropriate business-specific input to either a) COEs for design or b) the HR Delivery pool for delivery.

**5. HR Operational Delivery**
- Co-own end-to-end delivery of HR processes with HR Operations Manager.
- Implement new HR Operations support model for BeLux, actively drive new ways of working both within the team as well as in the wider HR organization and business.
- Collaborate with the HR operations organisation and Expertise in COE to provide a seamless experience to users and HR Business.
- Drive and strengthen continuous improvement, focused on clear benefits realization.
- Ensuring effective financial controls and adherence to HSSE and information compliance policies.
- Manage budget of the team.
- Establish strong working relationships with other teams within the HR organisation.

**6. Leadership**
- Drive HR Transformation objectives; managing significant change journey over the coming years.
- Drive top quartile employee engagement within own organization.
- Drive high performance of the organization, through coaching and supporting staff and team leads.
- Continuously grow the capability of the organization; ensuring sufficient focus for individual development.

**What we need from you**
- Master in Labour Law, Economics, Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or equivalent
- Fluent in Dutch, French, English
- Mastery/skills within HR Business Partnering, ER/IR, Payroll and knowledge of Recruitment, Talent Management, OD & Learning
- HR professionalism - protect our license to operate.
- Influencing skills to effectively manage a broad range of both external and internal stakeholders including 3rd party bodies and government agencies.
- Collaboration/integrative leadership (with other parts of the HR organization)

The position reports into the HRVP BeNeFrux and is part of the HR BeNeFrux Leadership Team. It leads a team of five employees, contractors and indirectly oversees colleagues in SBO Kraków.