HR Manager

Role Overview

HR Manager at Cummins Arabia. This role leads human resources business processes for a moderately complex organization or multiple functions, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements and adherence with human resources policies and processes.

Role Purpose

Lead the improvement, deployment and effectiveness of a broad range of Human Resources processes across the business or functional organization. Partner with managers and employees to resolve issues and concerns.

Key Responsibilities

Staffing and Recruitment

• Provide staffing and recruiting support.
• Evaluate structure, job design and headcount forecasting.
• Conduct people data analysis.
• Implement tactics to select and maintain a diverse workforce.

Employee Relations and Conflict Resolution

• Resolve conflicts and provide coaching and counseling on human resources matters for individuals or groups within a defined organization or function.
• Build constructive relationships with employees and other stakeholders.
• Effectively manage conflict.
• Build and maintain a collaborative, productive work environment through information sharing and consultation.

Performance Management

• Lead performance management activities, including employee development planning.

Workforce Information Systems

• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of workforce information in human resources information systems.

Compensation and Benefits

• Facilitate compensation process and benefits administration by partnering with shared services and corporate human resources.
• Develop and implement workforce compensation recommendations.
• Translate Cummins plan design, statutory and tax requirements in the communication and delivery of compensation and benefit programs.

Investigations

• Conduct and document investigations for business areas or corporate functional areas.
• Utilize interpersonal skills, sound judgment and investigation tools and process to resolve reported violations of Cummins standards.
• Conduct effective interviews and analyze information.
• Clearly articulate findings and make recommendations verbally and in writing.

Policy and Compliance

• Manage administration of and adherence to human resources policies and procedures.
• Advise organizational and functional leadership on compliance with key legislative requirements.
• Reinforce consistent application of Cummins standards and apply knowledge of employment and labor law.

Training and Development

• Lead training needs assessments and participate in training activities and special projects.
• Coach and mentor less experienced human resources generalists.

Continuous Improvement

• Participate in initiatives to improve the overall effectiveness of human resources processes.
• Lead specific improvement initiatives.

Employment Contracts

• Create employment contracts as required by local law or practice.

Qualifications & Experience

• College, university, or equivalent degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field or equivalent experience required.
• Intermediate level of relevant work experience required.

Skills & Competencies

• Communicate effectively by developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Demonstrate self-awareness by using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Apply the Cummins structured process and tool set for engaging individuals and organizations through change to achieve and sustain business results and outcomes.
• Manage the execution of Human Resources business processes, seeking efficiency, accuracy, positive business performance outcomes and operational agility.
• Integrate activities across processes as needed.
• Assure compliance with process and legal requirements.
• Effectively balance process requirements and business leader needs.
• Collaborate with partners to observe the environment and apply sound judgment informed by knowledge, skills, and experiences to diagnose, identify and optimize opportunities to provide holistic solutions.
• Balance the needs of stakeholders, primarily employees, with those of the organization.
• Act on people data to ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance with company policy and legislative requirements.
• Apply Cummins Organization Design principles and tools whilst partnering with leaders to determine the optimal organizational design and structure to deliver on strategic goals.
• Discover, interpret and communicate qualitative and quantitative data.
• Determine conclusions relying on knowledge of business or functional frameworks.
• Apply statistics, data validity, data visualization, and problem solving approaches to effectively extract meaningful patterns and business insights.
• Present conclusions and outcomes that enable data driven business decisions.
• Recognize the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.