Regional People Partnerships Director

Job Description

Turnitin is seeking to hire a Regional People Partnerships Director to join our Global People Team (must be located in EMEA - willing to work EMEA hours). The People Team enables Turnitin to unleash the full potential of ‘One Team’ and culture which, in turn, enables it to deliver its business strategy and purpose. 

The People Team is split into four verticals: 

•  Global People Partners
•  Centers of Excellence (COEs)
•  People Services / HR Shared Services (PSS)
•  People Strategy & Operations (PS&O) 

This role will report to the Senior Director, Global People Partnerships and serve as the People Business Partner within our EMEA Operations and support globally as and when needed. The incumbent will primarily partner with frontline Leadership Team members and their employees and will interact with other teams across the company to provide tactical hands on support as well as strategic thought leadership related to the entire employee lifecycle with specific focus on employment law, employee relations, engagement, inclusion as well as operational efficiency and effectiveness aligned to Turnitin values. The incumbent will also have extensive knowledge and experience of UK and EMEA employment law across various countries. A depth of experience in employee relations, strong business acumen, the ability to handle ambiguity and problem solve with a solutions based, growth mindset focus.

Primarily, they will:

• Act as a trusted advisor to operational partners and an aligned business partner within the people team to ensure a true one team approach to any people or employee relations related items.
• Develop open and enduring stakeholder relationships with Turnitin people managers to support their people responsibilities as leaders.
• Support the delivery of the People Strategy and link it operationally to business needs, providing personal coaching and guidance/development for managers and their team.
• Support operational and people team transformational efforts aimed at improving overall efficiency and effectiveness of deliverables and impacted teams.
• Execute on annual and bi-annual plans/OKRs using COE support with the team to ensure continuous improvements are realized in relation to key metrics like Turnover, Retention, Diversity, etc.
• Advise Turnitin Leaders on effective organizational design and development to achieve overall Turnitin operational outcomes.
• Work closely with Stakeholders, the Talent Acquisition Team to forecast talent needs and to ensure that a pipeline of exceptional talent is flowing into the organization which meets forecasted needs.
• Be able to research best practices from the outside in to mature and sustain key people practices within Turnitin.
• Support and backup the entire GPP people team as and when needed.
• Be familiar with and highly capable at driving and sustaining change while ensuring processes are documented and automated as applicable while engaging COE and other key partners.
• Be able to translate information into data to support decision making.
• Be a proactive and personally accountable communicator ensuring transparent and open flow of information up, down and sideways.

Qualifications

Essential:

• 10+ years global HR experience in a multicultural environment managing multiple countries within the region, as well as remote workers, and a mix of experiences in HR COEs and generalist functions.
• Extensive employee relations experience across multiple countries.
• Experience in a SaaS organization or other technology industry preferred.
• Ability to think strategically but act tactically. Be able and willing to action and own tactical people processes day to day in addition to strong strategic capability to drive the big picture to ground level outputs.
• Ability to flex hours to be part of the broader team as and when required and travel to various countries and locations within the client group, as well as broader travel for meetings and business purposes at the company’s discretion.
• Strong problem solving capabilities with the ability to approach issues with a solutions based mindset.
• Able to work independently and highly accountable to own results.
• Sound operational knowledge of relevant HR/employment law regulations plus all relevant regulatory requirements in the region and an ability to apply them to relevant activities on a daily basis.
• Technological savvy and experience working with HRIS, ATS and Employee Engagement platforms as well as Google suite and Apple products.
• Data literate with experience driving data decision making or a willingness to learn.
• Exceptional C-suite communications /presentations skills.  
• Strong capability in the area of negotiations, project management, process improvement, conflict management and change management.
• Undergraduate degree in Human Resources Management or relevant experience.
• SHRM / CIPD or equivalent membership.

 Not required but preferred experience: 

• Previous experience of working with Google Suite, BambooHR
• Language skills
• Psychometrics qualification 
• Masters in HRM / Ph.D. Industrial Organizational Psychology
• Enneagram/MBTI/Insights Practitioner