Senior Business Partner

The Company

Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead, act with certainty and earn the lasting trust of their stakeholders. We develop powerful ideas and tell magnetic stories that move at the speed of news, make an immediate impact, transform culture, and spark movements. Since our founding in 1952 by Dan Edelman, we have remained an independent, familyrun company. We use our profits to strengthen our business, provide our employees with opportunities to grow, advance our industry, and serve as a responsible citizen of the world. Every day, we strive to live and work by a long-held set of core values: the pursuit of excellence, the freedom to be curious, the courage to do the right thing, and a commitment to improving society. We have deep expertise and advise on consumer trends, research, analytics and insights, purpose, corporate reputation, health, technology, capital markets, crisis, energy, and government affairs.

The Role

The Senior People Business Partner (PBP) acts as the face and strategic thought leader for the People function with his/her stakeholders in the Netherlands and a regional role group. Backed by robust regional and global Centers of Excellence and HR Shared Operations, the PBP will act as an ambassador for the function, living the Edelman values through their actions, behaviour and communication. For this role it is imperative the business partner is business focused, commercially astute and able to bring a flexible way of working to the role. Additionally, a strong ability to build strong client relationships quickly is critical, especially considering our fast-paced dynamic working environment.

Responsabilities

• Collaborate effectively with broader EMEA People Team and work together towards developing and delivering the EMEA Regional Strategy in the Netherlands and for a regional role group.
• Serve as a strategic partner and act as the interface between People and business leaders, managers and hiring managers, leveraging the CoE where relevant.
• Utilising a data-led approach (business and people data) to support decision making
• Act as a thought leader on all things people, creating a vision for senior management buy-in and delivering integrated People initiatives to the wider business
• Work in partnership with COEs to develop and implement internal programs, best practices and continuously strive to improve processes to ensure alignment with business objectives, strategies and internal/external trends
• Work in an integrated way with Netherlands and relevant regional role group Resource Managers, Business Managers and Finance Directors to develop a thorough understanding of the business’s operations, its performance drivers and metrics, be across the numbers, and the talent impact/changes that need to occur in order to remain flexible and agile. This should be at both a market and regional level.
• Coach internal clients and stakeholders on effective team building, performance management and culture initiatives both reactively and proactively
• Understand and display good judgment regarding the overall business, applicable laws and policies, internal and external culture and values
• Always seek to be a source of advice and not a barrier to success
• Serve as an advocate and champion for diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Role model the Edelman values, leading by example and serving as an ambassador of the company brand
• Consistently measure and analyze program effectiveness, utilizing analytics and redirecting, as needed
• Lead Netherlands deployment of regional EMEA and regional Practice/Sector/Solutions strategies and activations
• Work in true partnership with fellow People Business Partners who oversee regional teams (practices, sectors or solutions) and support the deployment of vertical strategy in the local market
• Lead senior case work and manage employee relations matters in local market
• Support executive leadership (in partnership with the Marketing and Employee Experience functions) in developing the culture within the Netherlands. In addition, it is the shared responsibility of the People Team, Marketing Team and Local Leadership to deliver and build upon the EVP, fostering high employee trust, engagement and retention while making Edelman the destination for talent.
• Work in partnership with the COEs to review local salary benchmarking as well as local benefits and reward schemes
• Complete salary and MIP review process at the local market with input and direction from regional People and regional leadership
• Identification of top talent across all practices, sectors and solutions within the local market. Collaboration with Talent COE on development of initiatives and solutions.

€80,000 - €100,000 a year

Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).

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