About Company
Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing). They help 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process. We are the leading student housing platform globally, with 1M+ student housing units listed in 6 countries and across 80 cities. We are growing rapidly and targeting $400M in annual gross bookings value by 2022. If you are passionate about making international mobility and living, seamless and accessible, then - Join us in building the future of student housing!
About the role:
HRBP should live our Values and be a champion for our culture and play a critical role in building and sustaining a positive, engaging work environment, Challenge current practices, and think outside the box to generate creative ways to scale Employee relations and HR programs and develop innovative ER solutions that meet timelines and deliverables, raise the bar and exceed the stakeholder's expectations. Lead and partner projects to develop and implement employment policies and processes, scale up and sync new hire onboarding, employee relations, succession planning, recognition, and engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
-Lead & execute a best-in-class new hire onboarding program by partnering with business leaders and HR partners to deliver a positive and effective new hire experience.
- Counsel Business Leaders regarding company policies, procedures, and workplace issues. Provide coaching and resolution regarding all employee relations issues.
- Organize skip-level meetings and empathetically address employee grievances.
- Works closely with Business Leaders on internal performance evaluation programs like Capability Development Program, Performance improvement plan, one on one performance discussions, and FGDs.
- Design, Plan, coordinate & execute Monthly, Quarterly & Annual engagement programs by utilizing the budgets effectively, building a culture of caring, sharing, and celebrating with handholding and sailing to go beyond the target.
- Take initiatives and plan HR interventions to strategize retention, control attrition, and effective manpower utilization through rewards recognition, succession planning, and benchmarking.
- Maintain effective channels of information inflow to feel what is on the employee's nerves and proactively take corrective preventive actions and address employee grievances with a high sense of urgency.
- Establish the best implementable HR practices based on facts and figures for employee success.
- Introduce effective organizational culture-linked Retention Programs. - Coach and mentor employees and promote a culture of knowledge sharing.
Requirements:
- At least three (3) years as an HR Business Partner/Engagement Partner in a start-up and 4-8 years of overall HR or related work experience.
- Advanced knowledge and skills in multiple HR functions including Performance & management, Compensation & benefits, employee relations, and talent management.
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking acumen with an ability to make timely, effective, ethics-based decisions.
- Exceptional influencing, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Must be humble, results-oriented, collaborative, and have a sense of humor and a strong EQ.
- Strong acumen with the ability to influence employees and managers at all levels and hands-on expertise in implementing multiple employee engagement initiatives
- People & Culture Manager simultaneously. - Hands-on with creating promotional material for employer branding internal-external communication.
- Ability to create confidence among employees to reach you for their grievances.
- Ability to access and identify the root cause for grievance and enable them to overcome the grievance and create a Happy Culture.
- Strong experience in understanding the requirements of employees in the Product Software Industry.
- Good communication (Verbal and Written) and interpersonal skills.
- An eye for detail, results-driven and takes the accountability to meet expectations.
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