Senior Executive/ Assistant Manager – Human Resources

KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry: our job is to make the world’s cities better places to live. At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization, which add value to the life cycle of any building.

People & Communications Generalists support in delivering the people and communications people agenda within their responsibility area. They take part the actions to attract, engage, and develop employees and develop KONE as a great place to work together with other teams.

Unit HR Generalists focus to local people and communications operations. These operations typically require local language, understanding of legal requirements and practices, and close physical proximity to handle the work. People & Communications Generalist support whole teams in locally required topics, under the guidance of their line manager. They can be responsible for defined projects at a local level as well to improve operations. The role reports to People Operations Manager.

Why this role:

• Contributing to the delivery of a People and Communications Plan – Responsible for smaller local projects that contribute to the delivery of a People and Communications Plan. Localization of needed items and projects.
• Local People and Communications Operations – Responsible for local operations. Such activities can include e.g., time and attendance and payroll related preparations or collecting information, preparation and coordination of locally required documents.
• Annual processes – Supporting in preparing and delivering annual processes according to normal process cycle with close guidance from respective owners

Are you the one?

• Masters or Bachelor degree in a HR field or equivalent experience
• Over 5 years of progressive Human Resources experience, preferably in multinational company
• HR background either from Unit HR or HR Center of Expertise or HR Services roles Software Engineering / IT Industry
• Knowledge of related Manage People process area
• Project management skills
• Awareness of capabilities needed to work in multinational team in a global matrix organization
• Genuine interest to grow into expertise area

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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