Digital Employee LifeCycle Manager France & Core-HR Solution Lead

ONBOARDING YOU TO THE COMPANY

At Nexans our global vision is to electrify the future. For over a century, Nexans has played a crucial role in the electrification of the planet. With around 25,000 people in 38 countries, the Group is leading the charge to the new world of electrification: safer, sustainable, renewable, decarbonized and accessible to everyone.

Nexans recognizes the differences that make each employee valuable and unique. Diversity is key to performance and to our global ambition to lead the world in the energy transition towards a sustainable planet. This we know from experience. All differences are appreciated and respected at Nexans. As a result, you will be an active part of a multinational organization where we cultivate the culture of sharing your unique point of view. This is why we encourage diversity in our recruitment - Bring yours to Nexans, it is welcome!

Nexans is a global organization on a transformative HRIS integration journey, aiming to deploy and stabilize a best-in-class HCM ecosystem that supports our People Strategy. Centered around three main pillars—Culture, Talent, and Business Impact—we aspire to deliver a seamless and exceptional digital experience for HR teams and the wider Nexans workforce. Our vision is to empower HR as a data-driven function, leveraging innovative technologies like SuccessFactors, Qualtrics, and advanced analytics platforms.

In this context, the Global HRIS Center of Excellence (CoE) designs, builds, and enhances global HR processes within a cohesive digital framework, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and excellence.

As the Digital Employee Lifecycle Manager France / Core-HR Lead, you will play a pivotal role in both local and global contexts. You will oversee end-to-end HR processes for France, ensuring seamless integration with the global ecosystem, while driving innovation and enhancements in our core-HR solutions globally. You will be instrumental in delivering transformational projects, enabling efficient processes, and fostering collaboration between HR, IT, and external stakeholders to eventually deliver added value to our internal customers.

The mission is twofold. On the one hand, the HR Digital Employee lifecycle manager is owning end-to-end responsibility on running Global HRIS solutions in France, teaming up together with functional process owners (other CoEs), HR/Business stakeholders and other HRIS team members to pursue three main objectives:

1. Maintain : for all the domains of their scope already in production, is accountable for the solutions quality and consistency throughout the HR process cycles. It includes, but is not limited to: ensuring that the solutions meet the business requirements at all times and complies with local regulations (including data protection compliance), organizing a pro-active and efficient community management, delivering tailored training to the proper audience, planning and steering back-office activities (internal or with external partners), building and keeping contingency plans so as to maintain a high resilience level. This also includes the management of Tiers 3 expertise in the support model and delivery of ad-hoc support to key/VIP customers. A specific focus is to be made on community and Change management that includes the coordination and animation of a global network of key users, ensuring the implementation of an accurate training model, delivering the right level of communication to the HR community.
2. Enhance : ensure the best use of the existing platforms/licenses with a particular focus on workflows digitalization, UX/UI enhancement and HR data management excellence (business definitions, process execution & discipline, architecture flows inside and outside HR community, synchronizations, consistency and accuracy and freshness…) eventually contributing to a better level of service and upgraded experience for HR Professionals / Managers / Employees. You’ll serve the role in the frame of a continuous improvement mindset and act as a data quality enabler to propose smart and efficient solutions to enhance the level of BI decisional features.
3. Develop : actively contribute to the implementation of new projects with HRIS solution owners in the frame of the HRIS evolution roadmap to further digitalize the HR function and increase the maturity of HCM Technology within Nexans. On the other hand, as the core-HR solution lead, you’re actively contributing to the design and implementation of the solution roadmap and conducting evolutions or end-to-end implementation of the projects you’ll be assigned on this part of the ecosystem, in synchronization with vendors, integration partners and IT, with respect to the overall business and applicative landscape. It includes the successful delivery of Data/organization transformation or HRIS projects which represents in-depth coordination of Nexans internal activities during all the design/build/verify phases with respects to legal compliance in the countries in which it is used. In this part of the role, you will bring a mix of HR functional, HR system and project management knowhow.

According to roadmap adjustments, you may be assigned a global responsibility on the implementation of additional modules (worldwide project leader role).

In all your activities, you will act as an interface between HR, IT and coordinate with the selected integration partners to ensure the compliance of the solution and will be the key bridge between the business HR needs and the selected technology.

You will be working collaboratively with all the other HRIS stakeholders in project and production mode, as well as delivering general strategic guidance, ad-hoc coordination and quick wins management.

Your profile :

• Minimum of 5 years professional experience in the field of HRIS with a good mix of HR processes knowledge and HCM solutions
• Used to work in global and fast-paced environments
• Experienced in the deployment of a cloud-based HCM tool
• Knowledge of SuccessFactors Employee Central
• Knowledge of Business Intelligence systems capabilities
• Strong ability to bridge Process/Policies/Procedures with tool capabilities
• Exposure to HR legal requirements in different countries (incl. payroll activities)
• Proven records of successful Project management delivery
• Highly organized, multitask and solution-oriented
• Excellent communicator (oral and written) with strong facilitation skills
• Problem solver and able to work independently
• Perfect fluency in French and English is a must, Spanish is nice to have

OUR GROWTH CULTURE

Among our employees we share the same values- we are pioneers of the energy transition, dedicated to deliver to the highest standards of performance, united to achieve our ambitious goal.

At the individual level our growth culture is built on trust and collaboration. We wish to welcome you as a valuable member of our team. To enable impact we believe in autonomy at the local level at the same time as we encourage knowledge sharing within our global engineering competence.