Director, HR Operations Emea

Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone

Flowserve is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pumps, valves and seals, with over 17,500 employees. Built on more than 50 world-renowned heritage brands, the equity and customer loyalty Flowserve earned over the past 220 years is the foundation of their leadership position across the globe. Flowserve is a publicly traded corporation with $4 Billion in annual sales, operations in 50+ countries, 300+ locations worldwide and over 180 Quick Response Centers.

Continuing to foster this kind of innovation is key to Flowserve's long-term success. Flowserve is known for its industry-leading talent, unparalleled portfolio, and unmatched commitment to customer success. To help solve the biggest flow-control challenges, customers worldwide rely on the product lines, engineering, project management and service expertise of Flowserve. Through their unmatched combination of products, engineering and aftermarket services, Flowserve helps their customers achieve tangible business results: lower operating costs, optimized performance, prolonged equipment life, mitigated risk, and higher productivity. Around the world, Flowserve strives to create extraordinary solutions to make the world better for everyone.

**Position Scope**
- The HR team strives to champion and advance an extraordinary experience for all associates to thrive and deliver. This leadership role, having regional scope, over multiple teams consisting of operations and functional areas. Consults with Sr. Leadership in setting strategy for area(s) of responsibility and creates plans of execution. Primary direct reports are people leaders, may have functional or specialist individual contributors reporting directly as well.
- Regional HR Operations Strategy
- Operational Performance
- Team Development
- Business Plan Execution
- Stakeholder Management
- Positive Labor Relations

Specific Responsibilities
- Oversee the operations of the regional HR team, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of HR services.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, senior executives and HR business partners to align services and ensure customer satisfaction
- Effectively manage budget and resources
- Drive culture of continuous improvement to enhance service delivery effectiveness through process optimization, automation, and leveraging emerging HR technologies
- Lead organizational change related to HR processes, systems, and service delivery models
- Oversee development and engagement of the HR team, through the talent lifecycle - acquisition, performance management, training, and succession planning.
- Oversee partnership with work counsels/unions to foster positive relations and local practices

**Professional Qualifications**
- Strong Labor Relations experience (grievances, contract interpretation, diversity, performance management, and government employment laws in EMA region)
- Minimum of 10 years of HR experience resolving complex labor issues in an international environment
- Experience working in a manufacturing company with internal production sites
- Experience developing/supporting European labor strategy
- Capacity to assess complex facts of cases and condense them to short comprehensive pieces of information
- Ability to coordinate geographically dispersed functional stakeholders/teams
- Strong knowledge of labor relations, diversity, performance management, and government employment laws in EMA region
- Ability to coordinate geographically dispersed functional stakeholders/teams
- M&A acquisition and integration experience desirable
- Experience Leading Leaders preferred
- Career succession potential
- English language fluency
- Willingness to travel

Leadership Qualifications
- Ability to build sustainable relationships of trust through open and interactive communication
- Ability to leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, and industry analyses to develop best practices
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making skills
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality
- Ability to think strategically, align HR services with organizational goals, and understand the business context and implications of HR decisions.
- Inspire and motivate teams, influence stakeholders, and drive organizatio