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HR Strategy and Planning Manager

Purpose

The HR Strategy and Planning Manager directly supports the Central Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) HR team to facilitate achievement of financial and business goals for the region.  Closely engaging with all internal stakeholders, the HR Manager provides support, oversight and project management across all strategic and day-to-day priorities of the region.

Principal Responsibilities/Key Results Area

This role will effectively model collaboration across the region by providing support in managing strategic HR initiatives, client support programs, and management reporting and related areas.

• Identify, prioritize, structure and lead manage major project
  work streams related to Visa HR and strategic priorities in CEMEA, coordinate
  and optimize all processes and initiatives relating to identified initiatives

• Maintain tight alignment and work closely with relevant
  teams, acting as a project manager on HR strategic or region-wide processes
  such as Annual Operational Planning, Quarterly Business Reviews, etc. and
  bringing timely and useful insight, perspective, analytical support, and
  research resources. Specific project content will vary greatly in sponsor,
  business or strategic focus, depth, and stakeholder served. 

• Identify, structure, and manage complex business and HR issues
  by collaborating and coordinating with a range of internal stakeholders to make
  recommendations and quickly arrive at recommendations that drive corporate
  priorities and demonstrate results to business lines  

• Act as a strategic program office for the coordination of
  business critical, cross-functional projects 

• Work with minimal direction, usually within a complex and
  often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to
  functional, or regional management while supporting syndication with
  stakeholders across the organization  

• Perform management reporting, research, data analysis and
  build insights to assist executive decision making, prepare regular reporting
  and presentation documents

Required Experience (education, skills - professional/technical/business)

• 10+ years project and program management experience

• 5+ years research and analytics experience

• Experience working in an international company

• Advanced Microsoft Office capabilities, especially Excel and PowerPoint
   

Preferred Experience (education, skills - professional/technical/business)

• Experience working in one or more of HR center’s
  of excellence such as workforce planning, talent management, reporting and
  analytics

• Relevant Project Management and/or HR
  accreditation/ tertiary qualification

• Regional Language skills

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.