People Consultant Manager, Germany, Googler Experience

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience as a HR Business Partner or HR Generalist supporting leaders at global companies.
• 5 years of experience directly managing a HR team.
• Ability to communicate in German and English fluently to work with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Demonstrated foundation in employment laws, regulations and labour relations, including experience with employee representative bodies.
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration and influence, with effective communication skills and an understanding on how to communicate large complex change.
• Ability to analyze data, understand trends and develop recommendations for action based on the analysis.

About the job

People Operations strives to revolutionize human resources the same way that Google has revolutionized search. We are helping to find, grow and keep the remarkable assemblage of talent who are our Googlers. You'll be an advocate of Google's culture and values, partnering with our business leaders to help them build their organizations and make sure all people decisions are based on data. Whether coaching our clients on how to lead their teams, navigating and resolving employee relations issues or managing programs that help develop our Googlers, you are exceptionally focused on putting them first, and being as clear and transparent as possible to help Googlers understand how people decisions get made.

Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as "Human Resources"). We bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field. You'll play an essential role advancing a more diverse, accessible, equitable, and inclusive Google through our hiring, promotion, retention, and inclusion practices.

Responsibilities

• Motivate and inspire the People Consultant team to deliver excellent support to all clients, in line with the People Experience vision.
• Provide HR support and consultation on complex challenges within Germany, answer employee and manager questions about HR programs, policies, and other HR-related items (performance management, compensation and rewards, employee relations, internal mobility, etc).
• Overcome challenges and get to the root cause of any issue, and design and quickly implement solutions that cut across multiple disciplines and stakeholders, even those beyond people and organizational boundaries.
• Act as a proactive subject matter expert for clients and internal stakeholders and partners.
• Offer thought leadership regarding People Consultant team (EMEA and globally) organizational and people-related strategy and execution.