Temporary Human Resources Coordinator

TEMPORARY HR COORDINATOR
Specialist Watchmaking Maisons (SWM) & Buccellati (BUC)

Role Overview

The Temporary Coordinator, HR for the Specialist Watchmaking Maisons (SWM) & Buccellati (BUC) will support and report into the Directors of SWM & BUC for the Americas including Baume & Mercier, Piaget, WatchFinder, Jaeger Le Coulture, IWC, Vacheron, Panerai, A. Lange & Soehne, Roger Dubuis and Buccellati.

The role works collaboratively with business and HR Directors and liaises with the Richemont Americas HR Centers of Expertise to coordinate and manage initiatives related to Recruitment and Talent Development; Total Rewards; Learning and Development; Employee Relations; HR Operations; and Internal Communications.

This role requires knowledge and experience across all HR functions to assist in enhancing business performance through employee engagement, organizational design, retention and succession planning, skill building, change management, and process improvement.

Responsibilities

Talent Management & Organizational Development:

• Assist in liaising with business leaders to assess the SWM & BUC organization’s development needs and create action plans to address gaps.
• Liaise with the Learning & Development team to ensure that training programs and learning opportunities are available and designed to meet the needs of the teams.
• Partner with HR Directors to support in addressing performance management and employee relations issues, ensuring adherence to the company’s established behavioral coaching processes and policies.
• Contribute to workplace investigations; providing research, insight, documentating all interviews and recommendations to fairly and consistently apply policies, laws, and regulations.
• Follow-up on issues with the Managers as needed and follow through to resolution with guidance from HR Director.

Recruitment:

• Assist with external agencies, hiring managers, and the Talent team to ensure complete and proper execution of full lifecycle recruitment activities.
• Participate in the recruitment process, creating a positive and inspiring experience for all candidates, and presenting a compelling image of Richemont as an employer of choice.
• Assist with the open jobs report and weekly communication with the Talent team to maintain alignment on talent acquisition status and priorities.
• Manage administrative tasks related to recruitment, including but not limited to, creating positions and sending for job postings.

Performance Management:

• Support in providing guidance to managers throughout the My Performance Journey process (MPJ), ensuring the completion of all action items, and adherence to the MPJ timeline.
• Follow up with PIPs or development plans as needed to address performance issues.

Employee Benefits:

• Maintain ongoing knowledge of the company’s benefits programs, eligibility requirements, enrollment processes, etc. to support employees with participation in and management of their employee benefits.
• Partner with the Benefits team to assist with the administrative process of leaves of absence.
• Assist with serving as the primary point of contact for new employee questions and support.

HR Systems and Processes:

• Updates Associate information (e.g., terminations,status changes, reporting structure) in HRIS and other systems and maintains employee-related files
• Maintains administrative duties related to accurate people data for expense allocation and reporting purposes
• Generates reports from HRIS as needed or requested, converting to excel
• Support in the analysis of data from various reports, extrapolating relevant data for the business

Qualifications

• 2 to 3 Years of experience in the Human Resources field with related experience.
• College Degree in related field such as Human Resources, Psychology and/or Business Administration.
• General knowledge of U.S. employment law is essential.
• Retail industry experience preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal Communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills in working with and building relationships with employees .
• Ability to work independently and with a team.
• Exercises a high degree of confidentiality with sensitive information.
• Ability to travel up to 5% to local NY market.

Expected hourly rate: $30-$35 per hour which will be negotiated based on years of experience.

This position is based in the New York office in Midtown Manhattan with 4 days in office and 1 day remote.