Regional Senior HR Generalist

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for HR and a knack for project management?

We're looking for a Regional Senior HR Generalist to join our dynamic team and make a significant impact on our HR operations in the US and Canada. In this role, you'll collaborate with local HR teams and global HR Centers of Excellence (COEs), to align HR practices with company policies and legal requirements, and serve as a strategic partner to leadership. You'll oversee and manage HR projects aimed at improving processes, systems, and initiatives, ensuring they align with our organizational objectives.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with functional HR business partners, HR CoEs, to facilitate cross-functional projects, ensure alignment with organization goals and manage relevant people-related initiatives that support local market practices and the overall business strategy.
• Work with the Rewards and Compensation CoE to manage the annual compensation review process, including merit increases and bonuses and regular compensation reporting. 
• Lead process improvement initiatives within the HR function, identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and optimize HR service delivery.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for standardizing processes across the region to enhance efficiencies and improve service delivery.
• Maintain current knowledge and understanding of US and Canada employment laws, human resources regulations, best practices, and industry trends.
• Ensure compliance with current employment law issues and group guidelines.
• Perform audits and assessments to ensure adherence to HR policies and standards.
• Collaborate with the regional HR team and business leaders to drive initiatives to enhance employee engagement, morale, and retention within the region, such as employee recognition programs, team-building activities, and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Actively develop new, and build on existing employee engagement initiatives.
• Deliver HR communications across the organization specific to the local business needs (benefits enrollment, engagement programs) with support from internal communications team.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, management, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, with a focus on compensation, employee relations, benefits administration, and performance data management.
• 5+ years of experience in HR project management, with a track record of successfully leading complex HR initiatives.
• Experience working in a fast-paced global environment
• Intermediate to advanced excel skills are required
• In-depth knowledge of HR policies and procedures, employment laws and regulations, benefits administration, and HRIS systems.
• Strong project management skills and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Outstanding organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional communication skills both verbal and written.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with all levels of management 
• UKG experience is preferred
• Experience with Canadian employment law is preferred
• Requires a passport or ability to obtain a passport

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS 
Position is expected to travel 10% of the time

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

48668 | Human Resources | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.
Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.