Director, Human Resources - EMEA

We’re looking for a Director, Human Resources - EMEA, (would love someone fluent in both French and English!) to help us create an exceptional employee experience through strong leadership, advocacy and business partnership to grow, retain and attract our talent. As a member of the People Leadership Team, you’ll lead an international team of HR Business Partners and Learning & Development professionals, while providing consultation and advice to senior and executive leaders to drive our People strategy and roadmap. In this role, you will partner with, coach and advise global leaders and employees to strengthen their leadership capability in support of the business strategy, developing our talent and achieving key business outcomes. This role is also expected to take leadership roles on organizational programs and related project teams. The successful candidate will need to be able to travel from time to time to other Hootsuite offices.This is a hybrid role and is open to applicants located within commuting distance of London, UK or Luxembourg. In this role, you will report to the Chief People & Diversity Officer.

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

• Provide leadership to a global, high performance team of HR Business Partners and Learning & Development professionals, fostering alignment across functions and ensuring a continuous improvement mindset.
• Design, implement and co-manage a comprehensive People strategy in partnership with the VP, People and People Leadership Team to ensure successful execution of business objectives.
• Work in partnership with People Centers of Excellence (COE’s) that comprise our Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, DE&I, and People Operations teams in order to develop and facilitate strategic people solutions from hiring through career progression.
• Contribute to the success of the client group and wider organization by supporting senior and executive leaders to create and execute on strategy and business goals, facilitating accountability.
• Partner with senior and executive leaders to coach them on a range of activities including: DE&I, leadership capability, performance management, and team effectiveness
• Analyze and utilize people analytics and metrics to assess gaps and opportunities and provides insights to help influence and inform the right business decisions
• Lead and support the organization’s resilience by developing the capacity and readiness for change across the organization, including coaching managers on planning and communications and ensuring change acceptance and sustainability
• Contribute to inorganic growth activities including strategic contribution to due diligence process and facilitate integration of mergers and acquisitions
• Act as a People Team representative on a number of cross-functional leadership teams and working groups

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: 

• Significant and demonstrated experience as an HR leader and Generalist
• Proficiency in French, with excellent written and verbal communication skills would be considered an asset
• Demonstrated experience coaching and influencing leaders at all levels, helping design strategic people initiatives to deliver specific business results
• Expertise leading large scale initiatives end-to-end, including change management, organizational redesign, and HR mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
• Agility and adaptability to dynamic, continuously changing and fast-paced environments, and ambiguity, and delivering impactful results
• Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
• Commitment to Results: consistently achieves results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results
• Creativity and Innovation: seeks new and better ways of doing things, generates original and imaginative ideas, products, or solutions
• Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs
• Courage: steps up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said
• Decision Making: consistently chooses the best course of action (from a number of alternatives) to address business problems and/or opportunities
• Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action
• Negotiation: successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships
• Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems
• Inclusive Leadership: builds inclusive, cohesive teams which apply diversity to achieve common goals
• Play to Win: capably delivers results through others, is good at establishing clear direction, helping others achieve their best work
• Long Range Planning: identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; Builds an integrated plan for course of action to accomplish this vision
• Enablement: challenges and supports others to create results but also develop new capabilities. Successfully develops the capacity and capability of team and individuals on the team
   

WHO YOU ARE: 

• Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community. 
• Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better. 
• Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity. 
• Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others.

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp

One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best  work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe

Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed

Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile

Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses

Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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