Director/Managing Director, People & Culture (Global Head of HR)
BSR - Paris, TX
posted 2 days ago
About the position
BSR is a sustainable business network and consultancy focused on creating a world in which all people can thrive on a healthy planet. With offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, BSR provides its 300+ member companies with insight, advice, and collaborative initiatives to help them see a changing world more clearly, create long-term value, and scale impact. We are hiring a Director/Managing Director as the global head of our People & Culture (HR) team. This role reports to the Chief Operating Officer. The People & Culture team consists of 6 full-time HR professionals and 6 part-time contributors in Asia, Europe, and the US. The Head of People & Culture partners with leadership and works with an advisory body (the People Council) to steward the people strategy, and the role owns the implementation of the People Plan. The principal objectives of the role are to lead the People & Culture function in attracting and retaining top talent, developing employee skills and managing employee performance, fostering employee engagement ensuring compliance with labor laws, supporting the team's HR needs, creating a positive and inclusive work environment, and contributing to the organization's long-term growth and sustainability.
Responsibilities
- Recruit and manage a high performing team of HR professionals prepared to support the global BSR team with speed, excellence, care, and compassion.
- Guide the talent acquisition function in sourcing, evaluating, and hiring circa 20 professionals per year in consulting roles and enabling roles.
- Lead the global People Ops team in handling employee relations matters and providing front-line support to BSR staff.
- Steward and evolve BSR compensation, benefits, and EVP to recruit and retain top talent.
- Develop, maintain, and enforce BSR policies for the protection and well-being of individual staff members and the organization.
- Work with leaders across the organization to continually refine our approach to talent management.
- Assess learning and development needs across the organization and deploy resources to prioritize and focus learning and development.
- Oversee and evolve practices that foster an organizational culture of collegiality, teamwork, engagement, and overall performance.
- Assess and prioritize the organization's DEI needs and opportunities, leading the People & Culture team in making progress on DEI goals.
- Maintain and analyze organizational HR data to track progress and generate insights for organizational decision-making.
Requirements
- Experience leading HR functions across recruiting, talent and performance management, compensation and benefits, DEI and organizational culture, and employment law.
- Strong cross-cultural competencies and experience leading HR support across a variety of jurisdictions.
- Solid understanding of business needs and drivers and HR's role in meeting those.
- History of partnering with business leaders to understand team/group needs and determine what can and should be supported with HR policies and practices.
- Ability to assess business needs and align the People & Culture team with those needs.
- Expertise in performance management practices that generate individual performance to enable team performance and organizational performance.
- Background in a people-intensive organization who can align HR people and practices toward recruiting, developing, and engaging a high-performing team.
- Orientation toward engagement and consultation with internal groups as policy and programs are developed.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in a professional services organization.
- Experience in non-profit and/or mission-driven organization.
Benefits
- Transparent total compensation framework with an emphasis on internal equity.
- Bonus structure: Director level -10%, Managing Director level-12%.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.
