International HR Business Partner

Company Description
**OUR COMPANY - GENERAL OVERVIEW**

ITW is a Fortune 250 global industrial company. Since our founding more than 100 years ago, ITW has become one of the world's leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses.

ITW businesses serve local customers and markets around the globe, with a significant presence in developed as well as emerging markets. The company has operations in 52 countries that employ more than 45,000 women and men. These talented individuals, many of whom have specialized engineering or scientific expertise, contribute to our global leadership in innovation. We are proud of our broad portfolio of more than 19,000 granted and pending patents.

ITW **EU Regional Accounts** **Division** serves the Automotive OEM (Stellantis, Renault-Nissan, Volvo and JLR) and their tier suppliers with plastic fasteners totaling approximately $200M in revenues, 500 people. Units include: Beauchamp and Ingwiller, FR; Hone, IT; Basingstoke, UK and Bredaryd, SE.
- Maintaining advanced engineering and manufacturing facilities in EU.
- Exchanging product, process and benchmarking information with sister units worldwide.
- Continually improving processes, material and designs to ensure every product exceeds customer specifications while providing unparalleled value.

**Strategy & Goals**

Our strategy is focused on organic growth. In order to achieve our ambitious targets, we have put in place a new Strategic Marketing Organization and are growing our Sales & Engineering teams to prepare for future opportunities. In this context, we are opening an International HR Business Partner role dedicated to our Commercial organization and are looking to hire a passionate HR professional to drive HR excellence and add value to our teams.

**Job Description**:
**THE POSITION**

**Position Title**:International HR Business Partner**

**Location**:The position is based in Beauchamp, France / Remote

**Reports to: Division HR Director**

**Selling Points**:

- A challenging and gratifying position within a very dynamic, experienced, and well-reputed international team.
- Opportunity to thrive in an entrepreneurial cultural while being a part of a big and financially stable global company.
- Relations with numerous internal stakeholders.
- High levels of internal exposure.

**Main Focus and Challenges**:
In this international position, the HR Business Partner (HRBP) is a crucial partner for all commercial leaders of the Division (Sales & Engineering, Innovation and Strategic Marketing). The incumbent of the position is accountable for leading the complete employee life-cycle and acts as a strategic partner for all relevant stakeholders. The HRBP provides added-value with modern HR generalist experience and proactive advice to support the Commercial Leadership Management and their teams. The incumbent is pro-actively supporting the growth of our business. He/ She is responsible for defining, developing and implementing human resources initiatives within the business that helps levering the ambitious growth goals of the enterprise. The HRBP drives modern Talent Acquisition and People Development initiatives across the area of responsibility.

In addition to the Commercial perimeter, the international HRBP also supports the Division HRD with HR development in locations without local HR Manager.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Act as a HR Business Partner to all Commercial Functions of the Division across 4 geographies, 5 locations
- Senior HR advisor, consultant and coach for the leadership team
- Leads the whole “employee-life-cycle” for all commercial employees
- Drives Divisional-wide Talent Acquisition activities for Commercial Team
- Leads yearly Compensation and Benefit cycle
- Leads Sales Excellence initiatives and Talent development initiatives for all Commercial employees
- Leads all HR related issues internally and externally in coordination with local HR Manager and administrative team (legal matters, payroll, contract management, external consultants and Trainers)
- Acting as liaison on strategic HR matters between the Location, Division and Corporate Commercial functions
- Works closely together with the Marketing team to drive Employer Branding initiatives
- Brings creative outside-in perspective of modern HR tools (New Work, Agility, Modern Leadership, Employer Branding) to inspire commercial activities
- Drives culture of Diversity and Inclusion
- Drives specific HR-related projects

**Qualifications**:
**THE PERSON - IDEAL PROFIL**

**Qualifications**
- B.S. / B.A. degree in Management, HR, legal or social sciences required or combination of business experience and education. MBA and/or additional coursework is a plus.
- Working proficiency in French and English is a must.

**Experience**
- Minimum of 5 - 7 years of experience as progressive HR Business Partner with generalist experience.
- Ability to work autonomously with a stra