Site P&O Manager HQ Brussels

About Umicore

Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.

About Umicore Market Solutions

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our enterprise functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

What you will be doing

For our Global Headquarters, Umicore's strategic heart in Brussels and home to global functions and business units, we are looking for our Site P&O Manager who manages all People & Organization (P&O) topics and activities. With a population of 350 Umicore Executives and professionals, as local P&O contact, you are the voice towards and point of contact for employees, managers and union representatives.

As Site P&O Manager you will guide and drive all P&O activities on site and ensure an engaging, inclusive and great place to work for our people. The P&O site manager Brussels also takes up a Business Partner role for several of the smaller Corporate teams based in Brussels.

Key responsibilities;

• Responsible for the Hire to Retire processes for the Brussels colleagues: pre-boarding, onboarding, exit, etc. – the full employee journey.
• Collaborates with adjacent teams and stakeholders, communicating insights and recommendations clearly.
• Responsible for local application of global/regional corporate/P&O programs, policies/strategy. Link between the Brussels organization and the different P&O centres
• Analyses problems, recommends options, and implements improvements in methods, tools or data flows.
• Responsible for “sickness” management in collaboration with company doctor.
• Ensures code of conduct and values are respected and takes necessary (disciplinary) actions in case of non-compliance.
• In charge of well-being programme in the context of prevention.
• Overall responsibility of the local social dialogue. Ensuring stable social and employee relations at site level.
• Responsible for preparation (reporting, presentations, etc.), organisation, administration (including redaction of minutes in FR and NL), conduction and follow up of social dialogue in works council and union delegates meetings.
• Owns tasks in Human Resources Information System (HRIS), data entry, producing accurate outputs and identifying risks or anomalies proactively.

Who we are looking for

• Bachelor / Master in Human Resources, Social Law, Psychology or equivalent (through experience)
• Knowledge and several years of experience in HR organization and HR processes and procedures
• Strong stakeholder management, coaching, and conflict-handling skills
• A pragmatic, people-oriented mindset with sound business acumen
• Communication and interpersonal relation skills: empathy, maturity and integrity
• Teamplayer with hands-on mentality that takes initiative, drives projects and can work autonomous
• Multi-lingual: Dutch, French, English

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?