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MetLife

Sells life insurance and workplace benefits

Head of HR

HR Generalist & Employee RelationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeColombiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree in a related area is required.
  • Advanced English proficiency is required.
  • More than 10 years of progressive HR experience is required, including at least 3 years leading an HR team or serving as a country HR leader or deputy, with responsibility across multiple HR disciplines and prior experience in a role of comparable scope.
  • Experience in local individual and collective labor relations, including unions, terminations, disciplinary measures, and labor authorities, as well as current knowledge of labor legislation and recent reforms, is required.
  • Experience in commercial or financial services organizations with a large, distributed sales force and proximity to field operations is required.
  • Experience working in matrixed or multinational structures and influencing local, regional, and global teams is required.
  • Ability to use artificial intelligence in HR diagnostics, scenario design, and delivery while validating evidence, bias, and risks and maintaining human oversight of employment decisions is required.
  • Business vision, comfort with metrics, and ability to connect HR indicators to commercial indicators and translate them into concrete actions are required.
  • Ability to build trusted relationships, listen, negotiate, set boundaries, and challenge leadership with an independent perspective is required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute MetLife Colombia’s people strategy as a member of the leadership team and strategic partner to the Country Manager and business leaders, translating the business plan into people priorities with measurable business impact.
  • Lead the people strategy and annual HR plan, aligned with regional and global priorities and a people scorecard linked to business key performance indicators.
  • Create the workforce plan and sales-force talent strategy with the Country Manager and Finance, covering attraction, onboarding, careers, productivity, and advisor retention.
  • Oversee compliance with labor regulations, HR policies, and occupational health and safety, and lead relations with unions, employee representatives, and labor authorities.
  • Manage the HR budget, HR operations and payroll, and rewards and incentives strategy, including agency sales-force commissions.
  • Develop a high-performing HR team and lead the function’s transformation using artificial intelligence to simplify processes and accelerate business response.
  • Coordinate regional and global HR expertise, leadership and succession processes, and the people side of transformation, including culture, engagement, communication, and adoption.

Desired Qualifications

  • Postgraduate or executive education is valued.
  • Experience in insurance, particularly with an agency sales force, is valued.
  • Experience in HR function transformation and adoption of new technologies is preferred.
  • Experience in organizational consulting or HR business partnering is preferred.

About the Company

MetLife

Sells life insurance and workplace benefits

MetLife sells life, dental, disability and other insurance, along with annuities and retirement products, to individuals and to employers that offer them as workplace benefits. It is one of the largest US life insurers and a major supplier of group benefits to American employers, with insurance businesses across Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Customers pay premiums for coverage, and MetLife invests those funds and also manages money for outside clients through its asset management arm. Its retirement business takes over pension obligations from employers and pays the monthly benefits owed to their retirees. MetLife was founded in 1868 and is based in New York City.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1868

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