Job Description

About Kerry

Kerry is the world\'s leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers\' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

As an Employee Relations Specialist in the Employee and Manager Support Section of the Global Business Centre, you will be responsible for managing several cases at any one time, many of which may be considered \'complex\'.

Key responsibilities

Key responsibilities will include:

• Providing advice and support to our Employees and People Managers on all Employee Relations cases that come into the GBSC including sensitive & complex cases
• Managing the formal case cycle and coordinating the case management process using the required technology and methods of communication, looking for opportunities to resolve the matter informally, where appropriate.
• Co-ordinating and delivering training and development to People Managers to coach and upskill them, enabling them to appropriately manage and develop their people and build high performing teams that deliver
• Ensuring a positive experience for all Employees and People Managers, even when processes and situations are challenging ones, by maintaining respect for individuals and delivering excellent customer service at all times
• Ensuring all Tier 0 (self-service) information and guidance is up to date, relevant and accessible to all Employees and People Managers, by recommending legislative and statutory updates to existing Knowledge base articles and reviewing Virtual Agent chats to look for ways to improve our self-service offering
• Providing evidence-based advice and guidance to People Managers on emerging trends and patterns in their respective business area and among their team members and supporting them to address people challenges on the horizon. This may include such areas as sickness and absence trends, rising cases of disciplinary or grievance, industry wide or external developments or factors etc.
• Ensuring high quality collaboration with all other Specialist / Service Centre teams to ensure alignment and consistency of services delivered

• Acting as point of escalation and coach to the Tier 1 Employee Relations Administrators where guidance or the benefit of deeper experience is required
• Owning your own workload through the analysis of current case load, identifying trends and undertaking improvement action
• Providing insightful, intelligent reporting to customers to support and maximise business performance
• Working with leaders across the GBSC and business HR to deliver and improve SLAs and performance, thereby demonstrating added value to the business
• Fostering a culture of service excellence with your colleagues, role-modelling this and coaching other team members to deliver true best in class services to all

Qualifications and skills

Service Delivery

• In depth knowledge of ServiceNow and all of the advanced functionality it provides.
• Able to manage cases, oversee multiple workloads and resolve complex multi-step processes.
• Advanced reporting and analytical skills to work proactively to address rising trends and areas of interest, query and concern.

Technology Enablement
- Advanced use of MS office and other key business tools;
- PowerPoint to tell a story and make a case for change
- Word to build template documents, business plans and branded GBS materials
- Outlook to apply rules and manage folders, scheduling and diaries, build standardised templates and manage processes
- Excel including Fx functions, Pivots, charts, data analysis
- Visio to create and maintain process documentation
- Sharepoint to create and manage sites and content, upload shared materials and share and engage with projects and other functions
- PowerBI to analyse dashboards, team performance, trends and patterns to support business decision making
- Kronos / Time and Attendance systems to extract data, study working trends and patterns and support with workforce scheduling

Legal / Regulatory -

• Knowledge of relevant employment law, and local regulations and confident on training and advising others of the same - both within and outside of the GBS.
• Knowledge of GDPR and data privacy laws, Immigration and visa requirements, Working time practices and limits, Employee relations case law, disciplinary, grievance and long-term absence best practises, Statutory / Health and Safety / Ethical best practise and audit requirements

Development of self and others

• Comfortable ensuring all stakeholders are fully trained on correct/relevant user processes to ensure a \'right first time\' way of working.
• Confident giving both targeted feedback to individuals and small groups and widespread feedback to larger communities where education and strategic improvements are required to ensure processes continue to be effective and efficient
• Proactively use problem solving skills to help drive the GBS development agenda and roll out large scale education and training programmes.

Language and communication

• High level of English language proficiency as this is Kerry\'s most widely spoken language.
• Confidently able to successfully deliver services and have high quality interactions with Business Partners and Customer groups.
• Able to select the most appropriate method of communication to any given situation and tailor approach accordingly to ensure the most receptive audience and the best likelihood of influence and success.
• Proficiency in Thai

Qualifications/
Experience

• 5 Years\' Experience, Bachelors Degree, Knowledge of employment law

Key Stakeholders

• Employees, Managers, HR Centre\'s Of Excellence, HR Business Partners, Operations, Finance, 3rd party vendors & Regulatory bodies

Health and Safety responsibilities

• Follow Group and company policies and procedures at all times;
• Report any apparent deficiencies in systems of work or equipment provided that may result in failure of service delivery or risk to health and safety or the environment;
• Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with training received;
• Report any issues or training needs to your Line manager and /or via your applicable incident reporting system;

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