Job Description
The Cooper Companies, Inc. (Cooper) is a global medical device company operating through two business units, CooperVision (CVI) and CooperSurgical (CSI).
CooperSurgical is committed to advancing the health of families with its diversified portfolio of products and services focusing on women's health, fertility and diagnostics. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Cooper has more than 11,000 employees with products sold in over 100 countries.
CooperSurgical EMEA have offices spread across the Region and is fast growing with huge business potential and expansion possibilities
As Senior HRBP, you will work directly with the VP for Commercial EMEA and the country based General Managers, along with the Senior HR Director Global Commercial to design, develop and deliver the Human Resource strategy & initiatives based on a workforce plan. This role will work closely with the HR global service team to deliver HR operations such as staffing, on boarding/exits, compensation and benefits administration, training and organisational communication.
The role will cover all aspects of HR partnership Cross EMEA countries including the Denmark/Nordics, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Middle East providing advice, guidance and positive challenge to create the right culture for CooperSurgical’s continued double digit growth.
Responsibilities
Essential functions and accountabilities
- Provide expert advice and support to leaders and managers on the full range of employment related matters, consulting and working in conjunction with other HR colleagues and external consultants/advisors as necessary.
- Have a deep understanding of the business and contribute to the commercial strategy.
- A key member of the EMEA Fertility leadership team attending and contributing to all relevant meetings and business reviews.
Talent Management
- Facilitate and coordinate the EMEA talent review process and support the execution of development plans identified leveraging the local and global framework to develop talent.
- Design and implement innovative approaches to attract, develop, retain talent.
- Identify training needs and manage training plans.
Change Management
- Be a change expert, enabling the business to adapt the organization structure effectively with minimal disruption and with a focus on the customer and business outcomes
- Coach leadership and management on how to lead and direct change.
Performance Enablement Process – PEP (Goal Setting, Check In’s & End of Year Review)
- Act as the custodian for the performance management process and MyCooper system for the Region ensuring compliance to the process.
- Analyse and monitor functional area KPI’s for alignment to strategy.
- Upskill and support managers to be effective coaches.
- Upskill employees on effective goal setting and development planning.
- Continuously support the senior leadership team and organization manage poor performance and action against it.
- Work closely with senior leadership team during annual performance evaluation process.
Organisational Climate
- Facilitate processes to conduct annual engagement survey.
- Analyze survey results and enable action plan creation and delivery in partnership with business leaders across the Region.
Organisational structure design and job profile development
- Stay abreast of any changes in strategy, legislation, market, and business model that could impact on organisational structures.
- Facilitate processes to drive structural changes where required.
- Analyse structures and make recommendation for enhancement from an effectiveness, efficiency and alignment point of view.
- Identify critical positions within structures.
- Drive standardisation and consistency of structures and jobs.
- Ensure competency requirements are aligned to competency framework.
- Wor closely with the Senior leadership team to ensure robust strategic workforce planning.
Recruitment
- Works closely with the Talent Acquisition team to enable effective resourcing strategies and tools to attract high quality candidates.
- Participate in the selection process and support hiring manager with offer package (comp., bonus, benefits etc.)
- Leverage internal talent plans to encourage internal promotions where possible.
Compensation & Benefits
- Ensure a robust internal and external benchmarking processes is followed in all compensation and benefit related activities.
- Build local knowledge in the reward/benefit processes.
- Work closely with senior leaders on annual and quarterly bonus process
Employee Development
- In conjunction with appropriate suppliers (internal or external) plus internal L&D colleagues, ensure that appropriate employees are trained, coached and developed in line with the needs of the business.
- Act as a confidential coach to members of the leadership teams.
- Create and facilitate training to bridge development gaps.
HR Operations
- Introduce and where appropriate, adapt corporate HR policies and initiatives based upon best practice to ensure local effectiveness and legal compliance.
- Act as the lead for the implementation and continued improvement of all Global HR initiatives.
- Manage and execute all contract and employment documentation.
Wellness
- Promote employee wellbeing (Wellness) so that employees remain productive and effective.
Employee Relations
- Be point of contact in employee relations cases as well as conduct investigations when needed.
- Work with corporate legal and external counsel to ensure compliant process.
Qualifications
Knowledge skills and abilities
- Strong Talent Management, Total Rewards, Organizational Development and Change Management skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity.
- Demonstrated success within a multinational and matrix organization.
- Strong leadership and people influence skills.
- Cross cultural awareness.
- Experience in strategic planning and execution.
- Ability to interpret and advise employment law codes from different countries.
- Ability to assess and analyse learning and development requirements.
- Experience in design, development and implementation of salary administration plans and employee benefit programs.
- Experience in analyzing and re-engineering processes and operations, in formulating policy and developing and implementing new strategies and operational plans
- High level of interpersonal and communication (mainly verbal) skills; Influence, Persuasion, Listening, Empathy.
- Adaptability, flexibility.
- Ability to assess, mentor and build strong internal staff.
Experience
- 7+ years relevant experience
- Working with and influencing senior leaders
- Proven experience in growing and transforming organisations
- Proven independent mind and judgment
- Experience in working in a multi-cultural, international generalist HR role
- Some commercial experience gained outside of an HR role is desirable
- International travel expected in this role
- Excellent spoken and written English.
Work location and environment
- Office/hybrid-based environment with a reasonable level of travel internationally across the Region
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; Masters degree preferred
- HR qualification required
