Regional HR Business Partner Manager

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Hitachi Energy is seeking a Regional HR Business Partner Manager - South America. As a core member of the Transformers Business Unit leadership team in South America the HR Business Partner South America is accountable for the overall HR contribution and value-add to the business, translating business goals into HR priorities and ensuring effective implementation in partnership with our centers of expertise (COEs) as well as HR operations. The HRBP will partner with business leaders to: Set and implement people strategy, develop and drive talent outcomes, support business goals and initiatives by ensuring relevant people capabilities and organizational effectiveness, counsel and coach business leaders and advise on solutions; Represent business needs in interfacing with centers of expertise and HR operations. In addition to the responsibilities for Transformers Business Unit, the HRBP will act as Country HR for Hitachi Energy in Brazil and will ensure that all country specific fiduciary people requirements across businesses are met and complied with. The Country HR is accountable for sharing people-related legislation updates with the HR resources in order to ensure local people process compliance.

**Responsibilities**:

- Strategy leadership: Set and implement people strategy in the regional organization in line with global business unit and global HR function strategy covering culture, competence, and organization.
- Capability/Workforce Planning: Ensure people and organizational capabilities required in the mid-long term are understood and actioned. Ensure that the business positions in the short term are adequately staffed to meet or exceed the annual business targets. Interrogate HR Analytics data to understand key organizational dynamics, trends and issues and define and execute appropriate actions.
- Organizational Design & Developments: Implement the operating model and optimize organization structures and principles in line with group and global rules and standards, including the Hitachi Energy Job Structure.
- Performance Management: Builds a high performance culture in the organization; Implement group and global business performance standards, KPIs, and targets to enhance business performance; Recognize and reward high performance in individuals and teams.
- Competence Development: Decide on competence actions to support business strategy. Implement learning and development activities to build and improve competence in collaboration with the HR Talent team.
- Talent Management: In close collaboration with Talent Partners in the CoE, set and implement strategies and actions to ensure a healthy and sustainable talent structure in the organization, including recruitment, identification and succession planning on business critical position, diversity and inclusion.
- People leadership and development: Ensure that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed and directed. Build an effective, capable and high performing team. Develop talent.
- Remuneration Competitiveness and Personnel Cost: Decide competitiveness position and compensation elements based on business need and in line with group and global strategy and policy; Monitor personnel cost development in the business and take corrective actions where needed.
- Change Management: Decide on change management needed to support business strategy and plan; Implement necessary measures and actions to facilitate change, including communication, reorganization, performance management, motivation, recognition.
- Safety & Integrity: Implement HSE and business compliance standards and regulations in the area of responsibility. Role model the Hitachi Energy and Group standards.
- Standards and governance: Implement and ensure compliance with global and local standards, rules, tools, policies and processes related to operations/project execution and share functional best practices and lessons learned across the organization.
- Labor Relations: Partner with local HR team, managers, union representatives and employees to understand current issues that can be supported or addressed through HR practices, processes, or policies. Leads discussions and owns the relationship with local collective bargaining and information / consultation groups where applicable (e.g. works councils, trade unions, employee committees).
- In the capacity of Country HR Brazil, Hitachi Energy:

- Fiduciary duties: Fulfill fiduciary people duties on behalf of the local legal entity & the respective BLs; Ensure strong labor and key stakehol