Your key responsibilities:

• Work closely with leaders and employees in Switzerland
• Local implementation of strategic/global projects: e.g. implementation new tools, organization change initiatives, learning & development initiatives, driving a High-Performance Culture, employee engagement initiatives, talent management initiatives.
• Support Employee Life-Cycle in close cooperation with leader and CE-HR-Team
• Handle Employee Relations investigations, disciplinaries, appeals, note taking, gathering evidence, preparing reports, communicating outcome decisions.
• Administer employee data base in WORKDAY
• Administer time tracking (Easy Rapport, integrated in Payroll)
• Prepare working contracts, certificates, introduction plan and related documents.
• Back-up for and handle Inhouse Swiss payroll (during absence of local HR Specialist) and related administration
• Administer social security/insurances for employees
• Employer representative for 2nd pillar/pension plan
• Support in developing new and review existing HR Policies to reflect changes in local legislation and promote the adoption of best practice.
• Support in: Performance Process, Merit increase Program, Annual Bonus Program
• Work with the International, Global Functional and Local Business Partners to provide coaching, advice, and support to leaders on organizational design and development.
• Enable leaders to develop a coaching culture combined with a positive, proactive approach to talent development, especially career progression and leadership development.
• Handle all labor law questions from leaders/employees
• Develop and maintain knowledge of the external legal and regulatory employment environment, ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements relative to HR and people practices.
• Organization of employee events in close cooperation with HR-Specialist (Xmas, summer-event, long term service dinner, brown bag events etc.)
• Fleet management for Swiss employees and cooperation with external full-service leasing company
• Training and education of commercial apprentices
• Management of local job portal (jobs.ch), posting of job offers on Social Media
• Interviews with job-applicants
• Responsibility for process conformity with ISO-certification 27001
• Purchasing Process for HR (Workday)
• Great Place to Work re-certification.
• Budget-planning for local HR

Your profile:

• Strong business acumen and communication skills with ability to influence key stakeholders.
• Able to operate in an ambiguous, matrix structured and geographically dispersed environment.
• Proven ability to influence a high performing team environment with a strong motivation to attract, retain and develop top talent.
• Ability to build relationships & collaborate with a geographically dispersed team.
• Ability to pick things up quickly, with appetite to learn and progress.
• Take full ownership and accountability and seek to drive improvement and efficiencies.
• Minimum of 3 years of solid generalist HR experience with operational background
• Experience with payroll handling (Swiss Salary experience is of advantage)
• Experience of managing investigations, disciplinary, capability and performance improvement, appeals and restructuring.
• Experience of using Human Resource Information Systems – experience of Workday would be a bonus.
• Degree in human resources (Personalfachfrau/mann with eidgen. FA or higher)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office; Outlook, Power Point, Word and Excel.
• Very good German and English knowledge (written/oral), French is of advantage.