Sodexo - Head - Employee Relations

We have an exciting career opportunity for senior Human Resources professionals having good experience in employee relations and engagement.

Please find job details below in this mail.

About Sodexo Key figures (as of August 31, 2012)

- 18.2 billion euro consolidated revenue

- 420,000 employees

- 20th largest employer worldwide

- 80 countries

- Fortune 500 Company and one of world’s ‘Most Admired Companies’

Job Title: Head – Talent Engagement

Reports To: Vice President – Human Resources

Work Location: Malad (West), Mumbai

Key Responsibilities

- Ensure a high level of understanding and compliance with existing and proposed legislation for HR and Sodexo policy at regional levels

- Manage the process of all new employee contracts within the region for both contractual and regular positions for sites and office employees

- Interact with clients and ensure full compliance and utilisation of resources

- Establish a strategic relationship with senior management, operations and support departments to ensure effective management of HR advice and support in recruitment, training, performance management and career & succession planning

- Liase with the Government authorities on compliances and labour issues

- Develop and maintain a network of HR contacts with HR professionals, placement agencies, hotel management, catering, engineering and legal advisory bodies to ensure that HR knowledge is current and updated

- Analyse trends and data to ensure operationally sound and effective human resource systems & industrial relations

- Maintain projects within the approved budget and established timeframe

- Promote Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity

- Promote, implement and assist in the coordination of Sodexo’s existing and proposed reward and benefit programs and organise welfare programs

- Ensure that the operations team in the region are provided with IR advice as and when required

- Oversee & support the management of the staffing function in the region in line with the national strategy and ensure it operates to budget

- Market Sodexo via industry networks to promote employment opportunities

- Coordinate with the HR team effectively

- Ensure a satisfactory level of education to all Functional, Operational & HR Managers on their role in the area of Employee Relations

- Establish continual enhanced levels of implementation of the existing Employee Relations interventions like DOST, Grievance Management, Staff Welfare, etc.

- Coordinate & assist the Region HR teams in effective implementation of the above

- Study the efficacy of the existing Employee Relations interventions & suggest progressive modifications so as to enrich the outcome of each of the intervention

- Interact with clients and ensure good understanding of the expectations so as to synchronise the interventions & have Site specific Action Plans for Key Clients / Large Accounts in every region and also for IR sensitive accounts.

- Establish KPI based performance measurement mechanism; conduct reviews & report status on a monthly basis

Desired Profile

- Thorough knowledge of labour laws

- Exhaustive experience in handling trade unions & interest groups

- Sound negotiation skills

- Ability to think “out of the box”

- Excellent communication, presentation & management skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills

- Effective time management skills

- Customer Service focus

- Proactive and confident

- Team player

- Complete understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality at all times

- Ability to develop self and others

- Conflict handling skills

- Process oriented

- Basic Understanding of Budgets & Financial Management in a Profit & Loss environment

Maneesh Goel
Senior Manager - Workforce Planning & Deployment
Sodexo India On-Site Service Solutions

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