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Employee Relations Specialist (SG/MY)

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As Employee Relations Specialist, you have responsibility and accountability for the Employee Relations areas for the country(ies) in scope. E.g., implementation of global deliveries and processes, policies, and guidelines. Securing that local laws, practices and needs are captured and catered for. Facilitating alignment between global and local needs to achieve common approach and delivery where needed.

To be successful in your role you ensure that your part of the Employee Relations network have the right competence, work multi and contributing to the business needs by taking responsibility for the whole. By having a holistic approach and proactively ensuring market intelligence, you enable agile solutions, compliance to existing and upcoming legislations, mitigate risks and solve problems to support the business needs.

Key responsibilities

  • Provide legal support, secure compliance, and represent H&M Group as an employer in the local market; Responsible for negotiations with local work councils and unions, incl. collective bargaining. negotiations.
  • Set and implement a systematic way of working within the health and safety area by investigating, risk assessing, raising awareness, mitigating potential risks, and following up across the organization together with the Security team.
  • Secure proactive management of incidents, accidents, risk observation and reporting throughout the business operation in cross collaboration with local Security team.
  • Give expert advice on People Relations and support to managers, HR, and other functions in the local market; secure all Managers have relevant competence and tools regarding People Relations.
  • Collaborate with Group CoE People Relations to implement and adapt policies, guidelines, and frameworks locally.

Qualifications


To be successful in the role of Employee Relations Specialist, you should have a good business understanding and the ability to translate business context into needed actions from people relations perspective. You should have a great passion for people and understand how to empower and develop yourself as well as people and organization which enable you to drive results and work towards goals.

What you need to succeed:

  • Education within Human Resources, Labour Law, Human Rights, Occupational health & safety, or equivalent work experience.
  • Effective collaborator with strong stakeholder management, presentation and interaction skills
  • Strong communicator, have persuasive and assertive skills.
  • Proactive, innovative, curious, and solution-oriented mindset.
  • Driving transformation/setting and implementing strategies

Additional Information


This is a full-time position, reporting to the Regional People Relations Manager.
This position is based in Malaysia.
Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page

Benefits
We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity
H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.

Company Description
H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H&M at www.hmgroup.com