Senior HR Advisor

The purpose of the role

Our HR promise is to attract, develop and retain the talent for growth, set the organizational structure and foster a purpose driven strategy. The Sr HR Advisor will be key in identifying as well executing activities that contribute to our promise. She/he has a proven track record as HR-generalist.  As a member of the local HR team, he/she is an outspoken team player driven by customer focus and making the future better. She/he will report to the HR Business Partner and will be closely working together with the HR-coordinator.

Responsibilities

Advisory role:

• Assist, advice and coach the local first line leaders in their day to day people role

Payroll/Comp&Ben:

• Owner of the payroll process for Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany
• Ensure consistency in the compensation policies
• Proactively update our comp&ben policy
• Support the annual salary review process

Social Dialogue:

• Prepare and follow up recurrent social dialogue/consultation with trade unions.
• Assist the Workers Council as advisor
• Support management in individual labor relations.

HR Systems and Reporting:

• Manages our HR systems together with the HR-coordinator:
• Dayforce: payrolling
• SuccessFactors: performance management/development
• Provides training to new employees on the use of systems, and to all employees in any new functionality
• Ensures Time & Attendance policy is well conducted by all managers and employees (working register hours, leaves…)
• Frequent reporting on HR metrics

 Recruitment and onboarding:

• Liase with the hiring managers to source profiles via LinkedIn or other relevant channels
• Schedule & prepare interviews and assessments.
• Assist with candidate interviews
• Liaise with operations in contacts with the temp agencies to ensure consistency in contracts, onboarding, invoicing
• Manage the HR-onboarding
• Ensures together with the HR Business Partner a customer focused recruitment process and onboarding.

Employer Branding:

• Ensures together with the HR Business Partner that the recruitment process and onboarding strengthen our employer branding
• Takes initiatives to make Griffith Foods Herentals visible in the regional labor market

Projects and other responsibilities:

• The HR function is evolving and there are multiple projects, ongoing and new, that require attention at any time. 
• There will be occasions when the projects may need immediate action, but this will be on an ‘as and when’ necessary basis

Your profile

• Minimum qualification:  Bachelor/Master in HR, law business administration
• Language skills: Dutch: Fluent, English:  Very good knowledge, German: Basic knowledge
• Computer skills: MS Office, very good knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience as HR-generalist
• Knowledge of HRIS (payroll, employee database, time and attendance systems)
• Recruitment: Knowledge of (CBI) interviews, assessment tools
• Good communicator and emotionally intelligent
• Analytical mind undeterred by needing to look for information and/or detailed data
• Our Griffith values:

• Act as an owner: be eager to learn
• Make the future better: demonstrate a proactive mindset
• Deliver results: end to end thinking
• Act like a family: be an example, every day, in working together safely and healthy