Fantastic opportunity for passionate HR Professional in Pearson Madrid, Spain!

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Our team: The Country Care HR team sits within HR Operations. Our team has a geographical, in-country focus on operational excellence and compliance. We are also the executors and experts of local intelligence. Our Purpose - Add Life to a Lifetime of Learning

About the role

Passionate about employee experience, the Country Care HR Consultant will report to the Country Care EMEA Lead. This role will be an operational driver and in-country HR subject matter expert. This position will partner with HRBP's of business division, Centers of Excellence, shared services (“Pearson People Services”), Payroll, Solutions (IT), and Finance, to keep Pearson competitive and compliant. You’ll be the SME for Spain within the global Country Care organization. Your peers lead Country Care activities all around the globe.

Key Areas of focus

• Implement both long and short-term strategies as per the business division HRBP guideline.
• Manage adherence to Compliance/local regulations.
• Partner with our Legal COE teams on local legislation update, employee relation matter.
• Maximize the value of services across the employee hire to retire lifecycle, through an exceptional delivery and provide expertise support in an HR compliance standpoint.
• Identify gaps and work on a Process Improvement portfolio. Provide an exceptional experience through innovation, simplification, and digitization.
• Manage high profile escalations through multiple team partnership, assess root cause, implement solutions to reduce escalations and improve processes.
• Strategically manage local vendor performance including SOW, SLA establishment with our benefits vendors.
• Act as a sounding board for our HRBP and COE for any case escalation related to a specific business division.
• Maintain positive relationships with the EMEA HR Teams to ensure effective co-operation and synergy. Share best practices.
• Oversee the Employee Relations including the Work Council negotiations and company representation.
• Be part of the local leadership team advising and leading the local HR policies and local compliance.
• Define all the HR local policies according to Pearson needs and local legislation requirements.
• Oversee, help, advice and support the HRBP and local management on the implementation of the local HR legislation.
• Support the facilities team regarding the Health and Safety employee requirements.
• Advice on the Legal Entity governance.

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
• Significant local experience in Employee Relations, Benefits, Compliance matters
• A natural ability to discern, organize, and convey complex problems and solutions.
• Thrive in an environment with an agenda for change, growth, and innovation.
• Student of simplification and making complex processes appear simple to the end user.
• Gifted at executing corporate strategies into locally relevant applications.
• Fluent in Spanish and English

What Sets us Apart?

Benefits and Rewards. We know you’ll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business. We know that one size doesn’t fit all, so our workplace programmes meet the different needs of our diverse teams, and their families too. There is a range of options, but when you join our Pearson family these are some of the benefits that we offer that you can look forward to

• Competitive compensation package
• Annual bonus based on performance
• Invest and Earn money and/ or become a shareholder with Pearson Worldwide programme ‘Save for Shares'
• Family friendly policies, work-life balance, flexible working arrangements
• Opportunities to work in global environment, grow your professional network and work from any location.
• Generous vacation policy including paid leave for volunteering purposes.
• Daily challenges and opportunities to make a significant impact.
• A supportive and collaborative team culture.

Flexible working: We are committed to hybrid working practices and has adopted flexible remote and virtual working. Where possible our employees can choose to manage their attendance to the office more flexibly. Our office is based in Madrid, Spain.

Applications:

• Please submit your CV in English
• As part of this recruitment, please state if you are permitted to perform work in the Country, where this role is located