People Services Senior Specialist

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

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Job Purpose

Serve as the administrative specialist in People Services. Retrieve, administrate and control the Workforce Administration from Hire to Retire (the employee life cycle). Handle complex customer cases in line with turn-around time SLA’s, quality standards and policies. Apply specialist expertise to resolve specific cases and escalate/refer cases to the Center of Expertise as appropriate. Conduct Root cause analysis and support transition and automation projects.

Key Activities

Provide administrative support to employee life cycle changes such as: new hires, transfers, promotions, terminations, organizational changes (OM) and data management. Apply specialist expertise to cases from AkzoNobel employees and managers that cannot be solved by the Contact Center.

Execute the administrative activities related to employee life cycle changes (i.e. administering new hires, transfers, promotions, terminations, organizational changes (OM) and data management

Create employment contracts, letters and memos according to business requests

Update the employee records and keeping all relevant systems and (third) parties up to date

Provide expertise on global and local policies and procedures

Provide expertise support to the Contact Center to resolve cases/queries within agreed SLAs.

Coordinate and resolve complex cases

Assist to translate and implement policies from the Center of Expertise into transactional processes and services that can be performed by People Services

Spot opportunities for improvement of processes and systems via input to the team lead.

Drive Simplification and Automation

Participate in transition projects

Conduct root cause analysis and fix process issues

Ensure KB and SOPs are kept up to date

Experience

Minimal 10 years of relevant working experience

Bachelors/Master’s degree preferably in HR

Strong customer services orientation

Ability to interpret and apply the HR policies and procedures

Flexible and stress resistant: The ability to multitask and structure the workload

Accurate, self-standing and with strong attention to detail

Experience with HR supporting technology and the capability to quickly learn and adapt to new ways of working

Eager to learn and keep pace with developments in labour relations

Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills and confidence to effectively work with all levels of the organization (including external parties where necessary)

Ability to work in an international and multicultural environment

Fluent in English language, both written and verbally is required

Fluent in French or German language when supporting France or Germany, both written and verbally is required

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 56139