HR Policy Advisor

**The Role**:
**What’s the role?**

You will be responsible for delivering effective HR policy advice including support to HR staff, aligned to global/local HR strategy and policies. Contributing to a competitive Employee Value Proposition it develops new policies/benefits and recommends changes of existing ones to respond to shifting market needs, embracing trends and enhancing attractiveness for diverse generations as well as flexibility/agility. Moreover, you will be:

- Reviewing policies/benefits to ensure compliance to local law/regulation and enabling HR digitalization/automation.
- Actively contributing to the implementation of further Workday releases by analyzing local requirements, looking for improvement opportunities, populating workbook content, supporting decisions on configuration, testing and consultation as well as managing change with focus on implementation.
- Supporting local CI activities to support simplification and standardization in HR policy and processes; thus providing opportunities for a more value adding HR contribution to the business.
- Responsible for developing new and maintaining/adjusting existing policies for Germany supporting the business and people agenda aligned with global direction
- Taking external trends and new requirements pro-actively into account and think employee back with (internal) customer focus
- Supporting digitalization opportunities and employee-centric simplification of policies/benefit offers and processes as appropriate
- Driving extended use of Workday as the IT enabler for world class and global HR processes, closely collaborating with global/external Workday project teams and across HR departments
- Monitoring and evaluating the impact of (potential) changes in German regulations or law
- Revising policies as needed based on new laws and requirements and business requests
- Supporting appropriate and effective consultation with (Central) Staff Council in the area of policies and benefits in collaboration with Employee and Industrial Relations (ER/IR)
- Delivering effective HR policy advice, services and support
- Driving standardization and simplification in HR policy and process
- Managing complex and sensitive issues with potential tension between HR and Business, local and global requirements, driving compliance and responding to business needs
- Securing stakeholder understanding of and commitment to standardized policies and process.
- Providing fit-for-business-purpose country solutions within framework of global policies

**What we need from you**

As many of the following as possible:

- Graduate with professional HR background and several years’ work experience
- Prior experience in HR Operations, Policy, Employee and Industrial Relations and good legal understanding of advantage
- Affinity to become a Policy / Compensation and Benefits Expert
- Proven track record of innovative approaches including effective communications, structured project planning, change management and stakeholder identification/management with ability to push projects successful to the target line
- Strong interest in supporting digitalization and analytics, developing HR IT solutions, analytical approach, detail-orientation with motivation to improve and perseverance/staying power
- Understanding of local external market trends, business context, and value drivers to derive insights to drive effective long-term policy decision-making
- Strong diagnostic and evaluation skills with the ability to distill key themes and value drivers from complex and sometimes conflicting data and insights
- Flexible and responsive to a changing environment
- Natural team player, autonomous, self-motivated and proactive
- Establish key stakeholder relationships and work across boundaries to drive results
- Fluent command of both English and German, written and spoken
- Workday and HR SAP experience of advantage

**Company Description**

At Shell Germany, our drive is to employ world-class individuals. We employ 4,200 people whose careers have benefited from our industry-leading career development programme and unrivalled inhouse access to local and global experts. We are active in many areas such as Gas, Gas Marketing, Manufacturing & Distribution of oil products, Petrochemicals as well as Research & Development. Shell in Germany is one of the biggest retailers of energy products and one of the largest refinery operators. Our extensive R&D facilities in Hamburg allow us to offer a broad range of expertise on Retail Fuels, Lubes, and Marine, Power and Engine Vehicle Technology. Shell began operations in Germany in 1902.

**An innovative place to work**

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