VP, Human Resources

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Job description

Role Summary:

Develops policy and directs and coordinates human resources activities, such as employment, compensation, labor relations, benefits, training, and employee services by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

Key responsibilities:

• Develops and implements policies, programs, procedures, and plans to ensure compliance with equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination provisions of government legislation.
• Consults with and counsels management and human resources staff to ensure that other policies, programs, and procedures comply with equal employment opportunity legal provisions and support the organization's affirmative action initiatives.
• Collects and analyzes data such as applicant flow, hiring, terminations, promotions, salaries, training, transfers, investigations, accommodation requests, and complaints for required government reporting and internal monitoring purposes.
• Responds to requests from external vendors and contracting organizations for affirmative action compliance certification.
• Analyzes wage and salary reports and data to determine competitive compensation plan; Conducts wage surveys within labor market to determine competitive wage rate.
• Prepares budget of human resources operations.
• Writes directives advising department managers of company policy regarding equal employment opportunities, compensation, and employee benefits.
• Consults legal counsel to ensure that policies comply with federal and state law.
• Represents organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
• Serve as liaison to government agencies. Confers with human resources staff, legal counsel, and employees to investigate, document, and resolve alleged violations of law and charges of discrimination or harassment.
• Consults with facilities management and other staff to create and maintain physical work environment that provides reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees.
• Contracts with outside suppliers to provide employee services, such as canteen, transportation, or relocation service.
• Oversees the analysis, maintenance, and communication of records required by law or local governing bodies, or other departments in the organization.
• Conducts exit interviews to determine reasons behind separations.
• Reviews contracts to determine actions required to meet equal opportunity provisions of local, state, or federal laws.
• Trains employees or obtains external training in the areas of working in a diverse environment, equal employment and nondiscrimination regulations, and creating a discrimination-free and harassment-free workplace.
• Drives all internal doe of conduct and compliance training and conformity

Key competences:

• Excellent leadership, communication, mentoring skills. Easily able to communicate and connect with all levels of the organization.
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Exceptional critical thinking and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate both internally and externally in a wide range of environments, cultures, countries. Strong presentation skills
• Must be well organized and able to prioritize key objectives and keep the organization focused.
• Previous experience with acquisitions, on-boarding and integration would be a plus.

Requirements:

• Requires education generally equivalent to an associate's degree in business administration.
• It is desirable for the employee to possess a 4-year degree (Bachelor's Degree) in directly related area and 10+ years directly related experience
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

• Extensive experience as a people leader, developing and growing diverse individuals and teams
• Embracing the ASSA ABLOY values and beliefs

Personal qualities:

• People leader with value based leadership
• Addressing cross business concerns
• High performer with a proven track record of success
• Result oriented
• Excellent communicator
• Envisions what good looks like
• Adapting and responding to change
• Self-driven and not afraid to challenge or be challenged
• People focused decision maker
• Genuine "can do" attitude
• High pace
• Able to extensive travel

Internal and External Contacts/Customers:

• Regular external customer contacts
• Close and daily internal relations
• Comfortable working within a complex international matrix environment
• Role model in collaboration

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 50,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces - physical and virtual - safer, more secure, and easier to access.

As an employer, we value results - not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions - supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board, it's important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.