HR Generalist

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Job Description:

Are you a curious, passionate and result oriented HR professional, with an eye for details, data and employee relation matters? Who gets a kick out of working commercially whilst collaborating with your stakeholders and peers? Do you thrive on providing a complete cycle of HR services, from establishing a trusted partnership with business leaders to managing cyclical people processes and driving people prioritise? If so this could be the ideal role for you!

We are hiring a HR Generalist for our Berlin office in King. Reporting into the VP of People you will be a key individual of the People Team, you will execute business strategies across the end-to-end employee life cycle. These will have particular focus on performance management, talent management, workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement whilst ensuring that Kings stay compliant for all people matters required in Germany.

You should have a strong local jurisdictional knowledge and the ability to ensure that all required elements of an employment are followed and delivered successfully.

You will be an essential part of the Berlin community and a culture ambassador in all you do. A passionate role model for our Values, and a go-to person for Managers and Kingsters on the location.

Your role within our kingdom

Manager & Business Support

• Provides expert consulting services to managers and employees in one or more focus areas related to HR programs, processes, and initiatives; engages and collaborates with HR partners to influence the decision-making related to managed programs, processes, and initiative
• Establishing a true strategic partnership with a diverse set of managers you will be accountable for creating and driving elements of the people strategy for your area of responsibility.
• Conducts one-on-one consulting/coaching with managers on performance management and development-related processes based on established training agenda and communication plans; conducts or designs training sessions/events for employees and managers.
• Continuously work with managers across the business to support and drive all people strategy, agenda and related processes, topics and priorities. This will include: performance management, talent management, succession, org design, data analytics and tracking, merit planning, compliance cases, communications and workforce planning
• Use your energy, HR expertise and business acumen to establish a trusted partnership with a diverse set of business leaders, coaching, advising and supporting them with their people plans, talent needs and employee relations support
• You will have accountability for completing relevant performance management activities, talent planning, succession, assessments and similar processes that drive the people strategy with high quality and integrity; including execution upon agreed to and approved plans

HR projects

• Uses data to participate in identifying and anticipating training needs within a business, region, or geography; recommends customized solutions (e.g., training, communication) to address capability gaps, and coordinates and/or delivers training.
• Leads the design and implementation of local HR projects or programs

(Strategic) HR

• Use your strong data skills to be able to determent, create and track relevant OKRs and KPI throughout the year
• Be a key influencer on all important people related decisions, ensuring that the business maintains alignment with the overall people strategy
• Drive organizational development, re-design, change management in your areas. Through strong project management and communications skills.
• You will have a growth mindset, prioritize your own growth and development and be curious about understanding and driving external benchmarks across both functional and HR areas.

Operational compliance

• Be a trusted labor law advisors for your business
• Work closely with HR Centres of Expertise (CoE) to resolve complex and challenging problems through innovative and agile thinking
• Identifies, raises, or escalates issues for trends in employee relations; works with their team to implement solutions to reduce employee relations issues for a business, region, or geography by collaborating with Human Resources and business partners (i.e., managers and employees).
• Champion our values and culture, being a role model for these and supporting the continual embedding of them in everything we do.

Skills to create thrills:

• Demonstrated track record of international HR Business Partner excellence, in partnership at a senior level
• Thrives in a fast paced, diverse and creative environment
• Clear and strong business impact skills
• A strong commercial profile with a passion for data
• Results orientated combined with a high level of goal-oriented approach
• Change agent - the skills and desire to change the status quo for the better. These should include the ability to manage all elements of organizational transformation, facilitation and training.
• Employee Relations, use knowledge to coach and advise managers and drive necessary actions
• Mediation skills, understands and assesses risks for the business and guides senior management in support of conflict resolution. Able to represent the company at court.
• Knowledge of relevant employment legislation and labor law is a must
• Excellent project managing skills – Own and manage cyclical people processes and projects
• Communication – Use simple, engaging and appropriate ways to influence and communicate. Understand your strengths and style and know how to flex this in order to influence and have the right business impact
• Data driven with a high proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. You should be able to use data to demonstrate insights, inform decisions and visualize it to influence others through storytelling
• Fluent in business German and English (written and spoken) essential.

Bonus skills:

• Bachelors qualified, (King will consider experience as an alternative)
• Experience from Digital, Entertainment or Technology companies
• Experience partnering multiple business functions across technology platforms and studio creative teams.

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.