Director, HR Corporate Social Responsibility, EMEA

Job Number 24058148
Job Category Human Resources
Location Europe Office - London, Barnard's Inn 86 Fetter Lane, London, London, United Kingdom VIEW ON MAP
Schedule Full-Time
Located Remotely? N
Relocation? N
Position Type Management

JOB SUMMARY

The Director, HR, Corporate Social Responsibility, EMEA will play apivotal leadership role in influencing the development and ensuring the implementation of strategies that support critical Global and Continent work to achieve HR strategic priorities. These most notably relate to our CSR (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), Pay Positioning, and other Human Capital requirements and goals relating to Marriott’s key business priorities and people practices. This role will be responsible for effectively representing and delivering these activities across our diverse portfolio of hotels and offices within EMEA.

This position will partner with colleagues todeliver EMEA, local and hotel insights that will drive both strategic and tactical decisions in all relevant areas. This position works with the relevant continent and Headquarters-based CoEs and Project teams to ensure consistency and understanding in any approach and supports efforts to integrate global programmes with local requirements.

The incumbent will be the key Subject Matter Expert to provide operational experience on the activities required to provide for strongly deployable and scalable programmes to ensure compliance with regulations and agreements and provide consultation to a variety of decision makers that represent the local voice and ensure strategies and/or initiatives are successfully implemented.

This position is an integral part of the EMEA Human Resources team and willreport to VP, HR + Strategic Initiatives, EMEA, with a strong partnership with the Area and Market HR Leadership teams, Global and Continent based COEs and programme team members.

SCOPE

The Director, HR, Corporate Social Responsibility, EMEAis responsible for all aspects of HR Operations intelligence and deployment within identified initiatives across EMEA.

• Location: London – Preferred
• Travel Requirements: Business travel is estimated at less than 20%

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

HR Operations:

• Functions as the HR Operations expert lead and provides HR Operational guidance/coordinationon other business discipline deployments such as CSRD and Pay Transparency, as examples
• Manages and identifies in scope locations for programmes, remains close to other SMEs ensuring the ever-changing and diverse Company, legal and social landscape is well understood
• Proactively gathers detailed knowledge of impacted markets, building global understanding of local nuances, current practices and dependencies including logging local labour agreements and regulations.
• TheSME for delivery solutions, obtains and validates EMEA intelligence, provides qualitative and quantitative insights that inform all deployments.
• Partners with Market HR, legal and HR Compliance teams to ensure programmes and deployments fulfil obligations (including Legal, Works Councils, Trade Unions)
• Coordinates with other key programme team members (Finance, iT, Operations, etc) to ensure HR risk assessment and resolution completed for planned deployments
• Provides SME HR Generalist / HR COE support as and when required

Implementation of Processes:

• Drives innovative creative thinking, to practically develop, refine, and implement new processes and tools used by Continent, Area and Hotel leaders as appropriate.
• Advocates embedding HR Technology within the HR function, to drive data-based decision making and delivers tools and frames issues to help Continent and Global leaders understand insights that influence change.
• Works closely with programme team members to represent local HR market needs in activities, communications and deployment.
• Ensures performance of all deployments is measured and sustained
• Takes guidance from Director, HR Strategic Initiatives for the global and EMEA lens whilst championing the local voice to wider team.
• Must be able to deliver guidance based on detailed HR Operations knowledge to other COEs and stakeholders using effective communication skills and tools.
• Is able to track and perform in depth evaluation of activities and processes in order to recommend strategic and tactical actions

Communication and Training :

• Serve as a HR Operations SME to inform the design of change and training programs and communications focused on best practices for HR professionals, Managers, and Associates.
• The primary point of contact for day-to-day initiative HR queries from hotel and market leadership
• Works in union with continent leads within all COEs to inform anddrive the data accuracy, analysis, reporting and strategy of each COE, to ensure any practices that influence the deployments are fine tuned
• Collaborates on global programmes to make sure that all COE teams have a consistent global approach and point-of-view to various local market needs and practices, and aligns on how HR work is done at market level within the continent.

Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborates with the wider EMEA HR leadership and COE teams to endorse the drive for strong HR foundations and HR Operations practices, aligned with Continent and global priorities
• Partners with Global HR and COE leads to recommend and deliver on global strategic priorities that can be locally deployed and sustained
• Influences the effort to define the HR road map for EMEA’s efforts towards managing risk and adhering to deep regulation, defining guidelines for continent versus corporate responsibilities.
• Communicate results and challenges to EMEA HR team stakeholders in a timely and resourceful manner to facilitate their ability to meet deadlines.
• Ensures feedback is implemented and enhanced based on continent and local needs

Data Integrity and Security:

• Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of people data, adhering to data protection regulations and internal privacy policies .

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience inHR, preferably with evidence of project management,change managementor related area
• Experience with Marriott HR processes, technology and policies is strongly preferred
• Knowledgeofoverallhotel operations and understanding of EMEA markets essential

Skills & Knowledge

• Proven track record of strong communication skills, with experience leading teams and peers to successful outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results under difficult conditions, particularly when faced with complexity and ambiguity.
• Technical Skills
  • mHUB and other HR Tech skills, incl payroll
  • Microsoft Office proficient skills required.
  • Adobe and Google Analytics preferred
• Demonstratedexperienceinteractingeffectivelyasa team memberwith all levelsof associates;abilityto build and maintain effective relationships with a broad group of stakeholders
• Abletoinfluence,drivesideasandeffectivelyaddressissuesguidingotherstowardtheaccomplishment of identified goals
• Goodtrainingandfacilitatorskills;knowledgeofvarioustrainingmethodologies
• Strongplanningandorganizationalandeventmanagementskills
• Strongdata managementandanalyticalskills
• Abilitytotranslatecomplexitemsintosimplecommunicationsthatallowforeaseofexecution
• AbilitytousestandardsoftwareapplicationsincludingPeopleSoftHRMS,myHR(andrelated applications), GRS, Word, Excel, Power Point etc.
• Self-motivatedandabilitytotakeconstructiveactionwithoutrelyingondirectionsfromothersallthetime, whilstkeeping direct manager informed
• Abilitytonetworkandbuildrelationshipsbyvariouscommunicationmeans
• Abilitytoexerciseflexibilityratherthanrigidadherencetoproceduresinordertoaccomplishgoals
• Effectivedecision-makingskills;canchooseacourseofactionamongstoptionsinvolvinguncertaintyor risk
• Strongproblem-solvingskills;encouragesnewinnovativesolutionswhenappropriate
• Strongcommunicationskills(verbal,listening,writing)
• Effectiveinfluencingskills
• Effectiveconflictmanagementskills
• WillingtotravelthroughoutEuropewhenrequired
• Stronginterpersonalskills.Abilitytoworkwithandcommunicateeffectivelywithalllevelsof Management
• Effectivedecision-makingskills
• Effectiveorganizationalskillsandinprioritizingworkandfollowingthroughoncommitments.

Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer.We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture.We are committed to non-discrimination onanyprotectedbasis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.

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