AdressThis is a GEO role with a primary focus on our Sales and Marketing and Data Center operations business in Sweden.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities:
HR Community Leadership
- Begins to partner with and build relationships with leadership teams to enable a One Microsoft approach and may coach the leader and leadership team as needed.
- Assists with the creation of clarity and intentionality for consistency/differences across the relevant People Priorities by business, area, or country, creating synergies, and avoiding duplication of work. In collaboration with team members, partners across the Human Resources (HR) model to foster seamless, high-quality delivery of HR services (e.g., onboarding, offboarding, statutory reporting).
- Participates in leadership team's HR governance inclusive of HR Business Partners/HR Directors and Centers of Excellence (COEs). Supports the businesses/teams including budget management for the HR team.
- Participates in and begins to facilitate leadership, customer-first culture, and mindset activities.
HR Governance
- Participates in geography/client governance committee (e.g., establishes and manages governance and policies for a geography or area/client).
- Contributes to Human Resources (HR) alignment within stakeholder businesses for the specific area. Helps ensure HR information within the organization is accurate and up to date (e.g., immigration, mobility, offer governance). Drives compliance with Microsoft practices around HR activities.
- Assists with corporate opportunities for improving HR processes.
- Contracts with various stakeholders to help ensure execution of deliverables (e.g., Finance, Payroll, Procurement, Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs [CELA]).
Statutory Accountability
- Gains knowledge of laws, regulations, standards, and emerging trends that may affect Human Resources policies (HR) and execution of these (e.g., legal signatories, court representation, health and safety, benefits, local documentation requirements, General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR], legal localization).
- Assists with the translation of what requirements mean for the employer and offers correct solutions to adapt and localize policies.
- Collaborates with the team to follow compliance with applicable labor laws and regulatory environment.
- Assists team to resolve HR issues involving legal and financial risk to the organization, in service to the Microsoft brand, values, and image.
Employee Experience/Engagement
- Supports process implementation into the lived experiences of new hires, employees, managers, and leaders with a high degree of supervision.
- Assists with internal communications to ensure alignment on messages.
- Collaborates with the team on strategies to improve engagement.
- Supports optimal investments in employee experiences while contributing to the end-to-end employee experience for business impact (e.g., new campus, related return on investment [ROI]).
- Supports fair and inclusive employee experience for all (e.g., local policy, training, perks).
Projects, Programs, and Initiatives
- Participates in projects, programs, and initiatives (e.g., applying and executing existing centers of excellence programs/initiatives, assessing new acquisitions, developing talent needs for new companies, pension plans/health plans, implementing initiatives) with a high degree of supervision.
- Executes project plans as needed. Identifies, responds, and takes action to meet emerging requirements.
External Impact
- Assists with local communities while assisting with culture with stakeholders, such as professional networks, schools, community-based organizations, etc. (e.g., IWD, DigiGirlz, local Human Resources [HR] professional events), in service to the Microsoft brand, values, and image.
- Gains understanding of external HR stakeholders for engagement with external customer business decision-makers to share and inspire current or future customers to drive business, as well as communities to shape policies and programs supporting future work.
- Supports team's efforts to interact with the community by leveraging social media (e.g., LinkedIn) and professional media (e.g., Society for Human Resource Management [SHRM], best workplace).
Crisis Management Team (CMT) and Disaster Recovery
- Assists team members in executing during a crisis management situation, including emergency responses, disaster recovery, risk management, communications, and business continuity. Assists employees by collaborating with the team on the company's Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) during and after a crisis.
Other
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources (HR), Legal, Business, Psychology, or related field AND relevant experience with HR or related experience (e.g., hiring, training, performance management) involving applicable employment laws and policies
- OR equivalent experience.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
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