HR Business Partner

Company Description

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Company Name: Nielsen

**Job Description**:

- At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future.

**This role can be done from either our Hamburg or Cologne offices.
At Nielsen, we take the time to design a workplace that puts our People at the center of how we work and operate. Our HR teams are curators of a culture and ambassadors for diversity, inclusion and belonging - where everyone feels valued and can bring their best selves to work. From day one, we provide our employees with the tools and resources to be successful and have pride in delivering best-in-class people processes throughout every step of the employee lifecycle. We also take pride in continuously empowering leaders at all levels so they can deliver outstanding opportunities to everyone on their teams to contribute.

**Summary of Role**:

- The HR Business Partner supports Nielsen’s Media population in Germany and provides
** **operational guidance on all areas of HR support in the country and ensures best-in-class HR practices as designed. The HR Business Partner is accountable for compliance with all employment laws and co-determination regulations in Germany, and will also partner with the Global HR Business Partners to provide input and align people actions with the larger Business Unit-specific talent strategies.
- Key Responsibilities:

- Particular emphasis is on the **delivery of HR activity **where local context is required.
- Accountability for **local deployment & delivery of HR processes, projects and change programs**:

- ** Advise, guide and coach line managers **on their HR responsibilities, management behaviours and team management areas.
- Drive the **effectiveness of the HR delivery model **ensuring consistency and optimization of HR processes and approach across countries
- Create and maintain an effective working relationship with the local Works Councils and unions, managing the information and co-determination rights with the aim of a successful implementation of business changes.
- Provide **effective employee relations **and a **positive working climate locally,** closely working with employee representatives groups, line management and liaising with the ER Leader, where necessary.
- Interface with COEs (Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Talent, Engagement & Development and DE&I) to ensure a consistent approach on Nielsen’s Employment Value Proposition, Culture, Leadership and Engagement initiatives across the Region.
- Identifies, designs and delivers **country-specific** programs in the areas of onboarding, employee relations, total rewards, benefits, compensation, learning, engagement and internal communications.
- Direct and guide line managers and associates to appropriate learning solutions
- Work closely with EMEA HR Leader and other HR Cluster Leads to identify, streamline & provide effective & optimized HR services.
- ** Partner with the local Corporate Functions ( **Finance, Legal, Integrity Real Estate) to ensure integration of HR operations and policies into the larger regional and country-specific operational needs, such as budgets, compliance and regulatory requirements, and so on.
- Ensures all practices adhere to the **utmost integrity and compliance **in all regulatory matters.
- Support the smooth integration of new acquisitions as needed
- Crisis Management as needed
- Key Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration or legal field
- Broad knowledge of the HR best practice across Employee Relations, Reward, Resourcing, Development and Employment Law.
- Previous Human Resources experience, across different aspects of the HR function for large and/or Multinational Companies
- Previous experience in a HR generalist capacity providing support across a variety of HR sub-functions to a distributed group as well as managing the link to Works Councils
- Knowledge of German employment laws, regulations, procedures and HR issues.
- Experience of managing ER issues.
- Well-developed customer and relationship management skills, including credibility and influencing skills. Strong customer service orientation.