Senior HR Specialist

Rotork•Rochester, NY

51d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior HR Specialist will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth operation of HR delivery within their regional delivery hub, supporting the business partnering function to execute functional/regional people initiatives and Rotork’s global HR strategy. This role is key in maintaining high standards of HR service delivery, compliance, and employee experience across the employee lifecycle and can cover for the HR Delivery Lead where needed, acting as an expert and mentor to the rest of the Delivery hub team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree level or equivalent.
Minimum of 6 years of experience in HR, with a proven experience of HR operations/ service delivery, complex employee relations management in lead country, supporting annual people processes and coaching managers to support their team management skills.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills with ability to influence and challenge key stakeholders.
Proficiency in HRIS/ HR technologies and people metrics and reporting.
Must be fluent in local language of your lead country and be proficient in spoken and written business English as this role is part of global HR team and English is Rotork’s common language.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to handle complex HR issues.
Proven understanding of local country/regional business operations and the ability to provide operational HR support according to business needs.
Cultural sensitivity: Understanding of cultural differences and ability to work effectively in a global environment.
Demonstrates a positive and flexible attitude, listening, consulting and communicating proactively.

Nice To Haves

HR/ business qualification would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

Manage and optimise HR service delivery processes, ensuring timely and accurate execution of HR operations for lead country and wider region as needed.
Ability to prioritise own day to day operational HR work requests coming into team via AskHR and from key stakeholders.
Able to independently manage activities throughout the employee lifecycle from onboarding to engagement and development initiatives in the lead country/ region.
Supporting and at times leading adhoc projects within HR delivery projects, as required by the business and the wider HR team.
Provide mentorship and coaching to junior HR Delivery team members, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.
Implement and enforce HR policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with local labour laws and alignment with company standards.
Develop and apply people policies which improve employee experience and employer brand and mitigate risk.
Supporting senior managers with complex performance, grievance and conduct matters, ensuring we’re compliant with local legislation and Rotork’s policies.
Supporting the HR Delivery Lead to analyse ER case trends across the region to inform and design management capability development initiatives.
Supporting Reward to execute annual compensation processes in local market/ region.
Working together with legal and compliance teams to influence and shape governance and apply improvements needed in the local market/ region.
Improve performance management culture and manager capability to drive employee productivity and development.
Drive an employment culture that improves performance and reputation, whilst mitigating risk.
Ensuring accurate real time people data maintained for the lead country/ region and understanding of how to use data and analytics (e.g. people, financial, business) to provide insight, answer questions and make business decisions.
This may include overseeing payroll processes, ensuring accuracy and timely execution.
Support CoE to deliver global Culture & Talent people programmes/initiatives in lead country/region.