Country HR Manager - Italy

COUNTRY HR MANAGER, Italy

Position Overview

Location: Milan, Italy

This region operates directly with end customers and indirectly through distribution partners, both of which are a very important growth market for Mindray Europe over past number of years, with vast opportunity for further sales success. The HR Manager will be responsible for delivering value adding European HR initiatives into the local market and facilitating the successful implementation of commercial HR within the Italian market, specifically with focus on performance management, development programs, and C&B.

This will be a multi-faceted role contributing strong influencing skills, experience of best practice HR within a commercial business and will be critical in playing an essential role in supporting this business to gain market share from the competitors and achieve strong growth.

Essential Job Functions

• Partner with leaders to identify, prioritize and build organizational capabilities, behaviours, structures, and processes.
• Support change management enabling the growth & development of our people and business.
• Develop and promote ongoing feedback mechanisms for employees to influence the continuous improvement of our employee experience.
• In conjunction with the relevant support, equip leaders to facilitate coaching & development within their teams.
• Develop ideas and influence the direction setting to align department with European values related to HR / people management.
• Define talent needs, and support leaders to forecast and plan their workforce and talent pipeline requirements in line with the function or business strategy.
• Define and drive a performance culture in line with corporate principles, work with leaders to translate departmental strategic goals into meaningful outputs that contribute to business results.
• Coach and support management teams of a high-performance culture for all employees.
• Implement key European HR projects, reviews, and initiatives to deliver change and improvements.
• Mentor, coach, guide and provide feedback to support their development and align with the future capability needs for HR.
• Participate in selection activities for mid- senior roles, in collaboration with colleagues in Talent Acquisition.
• Provide inputs on strategic HR direction and performance reporting to the Italian and European leadership team.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree as a minimum, preferably MBA.
• Comprehensive experience implementing HR initiatives and managing the provision of services related to performance management, employee engagement, employee relations and change management.
• Experience gained within multinational organisations and must have operated as part of Regional HR team overseeing a range of HR initiatives and services.

Desirable Skills/Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively with all organizational levels.
• Achievement orientated and problem-solving capabilities.
• It is critical that you bring Italian HR Best Practice with you.
• Demonstrated an ability to understand business needs and anticipating future problems/risk, developing simple and effective solutions.
• Strong collaboration focus to ensure shared goals are realized.
• Proven relationship development skills with business leaders, as a trusted advisor.
• Analytical ability to collect and synthesize large quantities of data, tell the story, and formulate recommendation based on data trends and insights.
• Demonstrated Project Management skills.
• Comfortable being the sole person responsible for HR in Italy, working as part of the European HR function.
• Fluent in Italian and English both written and spoken.
• Ability to work in the country with no requirement for company sponsorship.