For our esteemed Customer, a multinational company leader in its field, we are looking for the following figure:

HR MANAGER / ZURICH AREA

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive resource planning and talent management across client group addressing structure, job design, talent gaps, development plans, succession plans, retention and recruitment needs
• Continually coach, develop and up-skill managers across the business
• Partner with Regional Managers to implement the strategic and operational people objectives and deliver against these plans
• Lead the people elements of any change project within the function
• Collaborate with Recruitment and L&D to design relevant initiatives to meet business needs
• Partner with Reward to ensure the reward strategy is relevant for the business unit and effective benchmarking takes place throughout the year to remain competitive
• Lead projects/initiatives that continuously enhance employee engagement
• Play an active role in coaching and mentoring the HR Advisors and Co-ordinators
• Support annual performance review process
• Deliver training and facilitate workshops in partnership with the L&D team
• Review and analyse People KPIs for client group and implement actions to drive engagement and productivity

Requirements:

• Qualified degree, preferably in HR, Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Law or equivalent
• Minimum 5-7 years of professional experience in a similar role within an international setting, preferably in retail
• German and English fluent. Italian will be considered as plus
• Strong ability to build trusted and credible relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Effective influencing and coaching skills
• Swiss employment law knowledge 
• Excellent communications skills
• Dynamic, resilient, responsive and willing to propose solutions and influence decision making processes
• Well organized with a methodical, detail-orientated and robust way of working

Place of work: Zug