HR Transformation Manager

**Company presentation**
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 75 countries with approximately 64,500 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902

At Air Liquide, our people are our most important resource. As we continue to compete on the regional stage, we are looking for a HR Transformation Manager to support the HR transformation agenda for our Africa, Middle East and India region for the next 12 months.

**Role Description**
As the HR Transformation Manager, you will lead the transition to a new HR Operating Model, focusing on Centers of Excellence and a geographically diverse HRBP community. This will include not only management of the design and development of these populations, but also the effective transition of responsibility and activities.

**Responsibilities**
As the HR Transformation Manager, you will lead the transition to a new HR Operating Model, focusing on Centers of Excellence, a geographically diverse HRBP community and a remote Shared Service organisation. This will include not only management of the design and development of these populations, but also the effective transition of responsibility and activities.
- Work closely with Group Centres of Excellence and the Transformation Program Team to ensure seamless transition into the Target Operating Model
- Work closely with Total Rewards Centre of Excellence to finalize Position Grading for HR, Finance and Procurement project streams
- Organise Centre of Excellence and HR Business Partner assessments as the basis for staffing and development
- Work closely with Talent Acquisition and Talent Development Centres of Excellence to prepare and execute ramp-up and ramp-down plans in line with the Transformation Program
- Plan and execute the transition of activities from the entities to Centres of Excellence
- Prepare and execute, with the respective Managers, development actions for Centres of Excellence and HR Business Partners
- Work closely with the Country HR Business Partners in planning for project execution (Unions, social process, severance, etc)
- Partner with Shared Service organisation to ensure full integration to Hub HR organisation.
- Work closely with the Enabling Technology deployment team to ensure alignment on both system and people aspects.

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications**:
**Experience**:

- Minimum 5 years HR experience, operating at a level with exposure to and interaction with business stakeholders at senior levels
- Experience operating within an international multicultural environment, including experience in transformation and change environments utilising the HRBP and CoE model
- Experience within similar industrial organisations that have implemented Shared Service Centre and HRBP/CoE models is considered advantageous

**Competencies**:

- Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills, with demonstrable ability to establish effective working relationships at all levels of the organisation
- Fluent English language skills are essential, whilst fluency in Arabic and French is highly preferable
- A strong hospitality mindset, exceeding expectations of internal and external customers
- A strong Transformation and Project Management mindset, honed through experience and demonstrable with examples from environments of change
- Organized and detail-oriented, with excellent time management and ability to anticipate and adjust for problems and roadblocks
- Comfortable making independent decisions and taking accountability for the outcome, focussing on results
- Comfortable acting in an agile environment, anticipating future consequences and trends - is flexible and consistently demonstrates a can-do attitude
- Leverages diversity, cultivating an environment of respect and appreciation - sees diversity as a strength to be capitalised on for idea generation, decision making, outputs and results
- Leads through influence, not hierarchy
- Influencing & Stakeholder management
- Data-driven with Continuous Improvement mindset
- Change Management
- Structured and Solution-orientated

Job Reference: AE00174