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The Position

People Relations Partner 

CHAPTER: Integrated Workforce Strategies; AOP: People Relations 

TYPE: Full Time Position 

COVERAGE: 13 APAC countries and territories including Korea (40%-50% for Korea), Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam

PURPOSE / CONTRIBUTION / IMPACT     

In People Relations ("PR"), we collaborate and partner across the organisation to shape workplace and working conditions at Roche. By safeguarding the Roche Group, its culture and its reputation and by actively contributing to a positive employee experience, we are fostering the sustainable development of Roche. In our Area of Practice we bring together the expertise of Employee Relations and Labour Relations into one worldwide operating organisation. 

Our People Relations Community is working in a rapidly changing environment and understands the impact of external and internal factors affecting our people and our Business.  Leveraging the OneRoche philosophy and the power of our Global team, our PR community succeeds through collaboration and trustful partnerships across Chapters, Geographies and Client groups.  We operate with a common mindset and shared values and work together as a Global Community to support one another, working with autonomy through fostering good working relationships, collaboration, leveraging our combined experience, and empowering and developing others. 

Our PR professionals in their respective jobs create value through true partnership, finding solutions that balance the experience of our employees, compliance with local law and practice, and the business interests of Roche. They coach and train for proactive interventions on PR topics. They operate on a balanced, neutral perspective to support successful navigation through challenging moments which contribute to the positive reputation of Roche. Through our network approach, we manage local specifics and complexity by leveraging geographical proximity and cross-divisional capabilities. To ensure that we operate on a common foundation, our networks navigate within three regions (APAC, EMEA, AMERICAS) enabling global alignment on our PR strategy and a OneRoche mindset.

The PR Partner balances value creation and value protection activities, harnessing our license to operate responsibilities through our Creative Leadership mindset and ways of working. The PR Partner will be strategically focused and work in collaboration with P&C and business squads to cultivate cooperation based on mutual trust with a balanced, neutral perspective to support successful navigation through challenging moments which is contributing to the positive reputation of Roche. They contribute through a global lens and ensure a fair and consistent approach to all people practices and ways of working. The PR Partner quickly adapts and deals with emergent issues where needed as well as identifies long term opportunities to enhance the employee experience and positively impact moments that matter. 

STEWARDSHIP 

Maintains focus on enabling true partnership, by finding solutions that adhere to local rules and regulations and consider the experience of our employees and the interests of Roche

Sparring partner and coach for fostering VACC leadership and a leadership culture in line with the Roche leadership frame 

Works with the BP Chapter, IWS Partners, the entire IWS Chapter different AoPs as relevant and the business to create, advise, support and implement strategy for change management approach/reorganisations/workforce planning including creation and participation of squads and people streams

Drives change with proven ability to influence business leaders and P&C professionals to required outcomes

STRATEGIC PR ACTIVITIES 

● Act as investigator or as a point of escalation for complex complaints. Depending on Network model, this may include allegations of discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment, retaliation, and other potential violations of company policy and labor/employment law and serve as a point of handoff/escalation from internal partners (such as Business Partners, business leaders, IWS partners, Legal, Data Privacy, SHE etc) 

● Surfaces root causes and broader trends through the use of data in order to ensure business leaders are best positioned to address any pervasive concerns and advise on how to prevent complaints through fair and consistent performance management 

● Provides thought leadership to business leaders on restructuring, reorganization and strategic workforce planning activities, engaging internal and external partners and stakeholders to drive initiatives to conclusion 

● Advises P&C Community on local requirements for key initiatives that are being considered 

● Advises on  performance management issues that are complex, contentious and are determined to carry potential levels of legal risk 

● Advises and supports strategy for change management approach/ reorganisations/ workforce planning 

● Maintains a global mindset, works within regions and acts as a SME of legal and cultural requirements 

● Ensures that works agreements and other collective regulations (if applicable) correspond to the legal, possibly collectively agreed and cross-company specifications as well as the company policy objectives, are structured in terms of content and form according to standardized criteria and are adapted if necessary 

● Responsible for the design of works constitution regulations 

● Manages projects related to the PR key areas of responsibilities (e.g. restructurings, negotiations with employee representations, conflict prevention) resulting from global/regional/local business needs 

● Participates in cross-organizational reviews of broad-based P&C programs 

● Engages in the establishment of new and/or refinement of existing P&C policies, practices and standards that foster and allow Roche to successfully implement and maintain new ways of working 

● Consults with Network Leads and Enabling Coaches in order to acquire additional ones

● Effectively, timely and consistently uses the case management system while managing PR caseload

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCES 

● Demonstrates passion for and focus on building a diverse and inclusive work culture, fostering psychological safety and a strong sense of belonging 

● Demonstrated enterprise mindset and system thinking, proven ability to work effectively across multiple business areas, global teams and key leadership areas in a fast paced VUCA environment 

● Demonstrates ability to leverage technology and data to generate insights as foundation for diagnosis, recommendations and decisions 

● Demonstrates passion and ability to leverage digital tools for collaboration, co-creation and sharing across the system 

● Demonstrated consultation and influencing skills with a diverse group of stakeholders across the business 

● Deep domain experience in the areas of employee relations and/or labour relations, good understanding of performance management on a global scale (preferred), expert negotiation skills that diffuse volatile situations and result in course correction of people relationships 

KEY INTERACTIONS 

● PR Network Lead and Enabling Coach

● Engages with employees and business leaders across the organisation 

● P&C Business Partner Chapter Community Members 

● IWS Partners 

● Other P&C chapters 

● Legal, Compliance, Finance, Communications and SHE both both locally and globally 

● External lawyers 

● Employee Representatives, and co-determination bodies and unions (if applicable) 

● Employers’ associations (if applicable) 

● External government and legislative agencies as needed 

● Security and local Site Services 

KEY SKILLS / CAPABILITIES 

● Demonstrated ability to influence with courageous authenticity and build trust with individuals at all levels within the organization 

● Highly skilled at having difficult conversations, able to coach and use the creative mindset to help people see a situation differently 

● Resolution skills with ability to negotiate and resolve complex matters, putting specific problems in the context of the larger system 

● Demonstrated excellent situational assessment and objective evaluation skills, with an ability to comprehend and translate complex topics and relevant business data into manageable pieces, to then position the topics with strong communication 

● Proven ability to advise on business reorganization and restructures acting as a resource to the PR AoP and partners with business leaders to drive work to conclusion 

● Can recognize compliance concerns and ways of mitigating risk aligning with legal consultation requirements and processes while keeping the rights of the employee and Representative bodies in mind and acts as a link to them 

● Ability to effectively communicate impactfully to ensure the respondent understands, has the opportunity to respond/share their perspective and engage in meaningful dialogue 

● Ability to apply technical expertise to resolve a variety of highly complex issues providing unique solutions aligned with business needs 

● Ability to manage and prioritize multiple complex issues and highly sensitive PR moments that matter

● Comprehensive expertise in risk assessment as well as a strong foundation in the application of employment law in business situations 

● Demonstrated ability to leverage technology and data to generate insights as foundation for diagnosis, recommendations and decisions 

● Demonstrated passion and ability to leverage digital tools for collaboration, co-creation and sharing across the system 

● Lead group facilitation capabilities including storytelling 

● Cultivate relationships in a client agnostic environment 

OTHER COMMENTS 

● This job will be performed in Korea (40-50% focus on Korea) and cover other APAC countries/territories 

● Proven experience in leading and delivering successfully in a transformation environment 

● Experience of dealing with Industrial Unions will be a plus 

● Fluent English - reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, local language requirements must met

Submission

자유 양식의 국/영문 이력서 및 국/영문 자기소개서 (하나의 MS Word 혹은 PDF 파일로 제출)

※ 이력서 상단에 반드시 현재 연봉과 희망 연봉을 표기하시기 바랍니다. 누락 시 이력서가 검토되지 않습니다.

※ 이력서 내 이메일 주소와 서류전형 지원 사이트의 입력하시는 이메일 주소를 반드시 동일하게 작성해주시기 바랍니다. 

※ 국가보훈대상 및 장애인은 관련 서류 제출시 관련 법규에 의거 우대합니다.

※ 이력서에 개인민감정보 (신체적 조건, 출신 지역, 혼인 여부, 가족관계 등)는 기재하지 말아주십시오.

※ 입사 지원 서류에 허위 사실이 발견될 경우, 채용 확정 이후 라도 채용이 취소될 수 있습니다.

Process

서류 전형▶ 면접 전형 ▶ 종합 심사 ▶ 최종 합격 통지

※ 면접은 서류전형 합격자에 한해 개별 통보합니다.

※ 면접 일정 안내 및 조율을 위해 해외 번호(중국)로 연락이 갈 수 있는 점 미리 안내드립니다.

※채용이 유력한 후보자에 대해서 이력 검증 및 평판 조회, 건강검진 등의 종합심사를 진행하여 최종 합격자를 선정합니다.

 

 

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