Regional HR Manager - EMEA

The role

You will lead the EMEA HR team to provide compliant and scalable HR operations. You will advise on the employee life-cycle and partner with senior leadership in the region.

What you will do

• Lead and scale Canonical’s regional HR team
• Deliver precise and compliant HR operations
• Interact with the broader People team to create processes across all regions
• Be accountable for talent development, succession planning, performance assessments, onboarding, culture and engagement initiatives
• Work with senior managers on performance management, organizational design, employee engagement, rewards and workforce planning
• Coach and advise people managers on employee relations issues across multiple countries
• Partner with people managers to support training and development programs
• Establish a trusted partnership with the business in the region
• Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Design new policies and deliver on business-critical HR related projects globally

Required qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• HR experience leading initiatives across regions within a technology business
• People management experience
• Experience in business partnering with senior stakeholders
• Experience in working in a remote first organization
• Able to leverage data to make informed decisions
• Knowledge and practical implementation of HR practices and employment law across EMEA
• Experience in handling and overseeing complex ER matters across multiple jurisdictions
• Fluent in business English (written and spoken)
• Self motivated, organized, accurate, confident, authentic, results-orientated, open-minded, enthusiastic and energetic
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Nice to have

• Experience with immigration policies and mobility processes
• Professional HR qualification (CIPD/SHRM or other)
• Facilitation skills

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries.