Employee Relations and HR Business Partner

Role Description:

The Employee Relations & HR Business Partner is a key member of the Human Resources. Reporting to the Global Employee Relations Lead, the Employee Relations & HR Business Partner helps to enable the Employee Relations and HR Strategy for the organization. This role is a global business- and HR- facing role, working with all levels of the organization and across functions. The role will be dedicated 75% to Employee Relations and 25% to HR Business Partnering for the assigned client groups. 

Responsibilities:

Employee Relations Responsibilities:

• Conducts employee relations investigations, including reviewing new matters, creating an investigation plan, conducting interviews, reviewing findings, and communicating outcomes. 
• Proactively manages cases, staying in communication with reporters and witnesses as appropriate from the start of the investigation process to closeout.
• Consults with HR Business Partners leading investigations to provide guidance as a subject matter expert and helps to ensure investigations are completed in a timely manner. 
• Monitors and responds to reports through the “Safe to Say Helpline” and Employee Relations mailbox. 
• Supports regular metrics and reporting process, leading with data driven insights to prepare reports for Leadership. 
• Ensures proper maintenance of electronic employee relations records and tracking of cases. 
• Collaborates with HR Business Partners, Compliance and other COE’s to partner on open matters and keeps them informed as appropriate. 

HR Business Partner Responsibilities:

• HR Strategy: Collaborates with business leadership, managers, and colleagues as the HR strategic advisor for the assigned business group(s), focusing on the people strategy and talent management priorities
• Advises managers on colleague development in alignment with business strategies by suggesting a variety of development activities (i.e., rotations, projects, etc.)
• Drives talent review, succession planning and other organizational initiatives in support of our talent development strategy.
• Collaboration within HR: Drive HR program and service delivery effectiveness and collaborate with the HR Centers of Excellence (e.g., Total Rewards and Talent) and HR Leadership to deliver effective HR solutions aligned to business strategies
• Embrace and maximize the HR Service Delivery model (e.g., HR shared services (Zoetis Colleague Services))
• Create a culture that enables organizational change and drives adoption of large scale transformation initiatives as necessary. Currently, act as primary HR liaison for NextGen ERP project, liaising with Organizational Change Management, as well as Talent Acquisition, to ensure organizational readiness
• Monitors HR data and trends and leverages business intelligence to provide new insights using Data and People Analytics.
• Actively promotes and reinforces the Zoetis Core Beliefs.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 7 + years of HR Experience, preferably as a HR Business Partner or in Employee Relations with experience leading investigations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities at a brisk pace and flexibility to meet business needs
• Able to work in a collaborative environment and demonstrates a “One Zoetis” mindset. Champion of our core belief to “Always do the right thing.”
• Demonstrated success working in a global, complex organization across functions, regions, cultures, and levels.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact with senior level managers and executives.
• Embraces change and views challenges as opportunities.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office software. Experience with Workday a plus.

Full time

Regular

Colleague

Any unsolicited resumes sent to Zoetis from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Zoetis mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Zoetis employees, or to Zoetis resume database will be considered Zoetis property. Zoetis will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.

Zoetis is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status or any other protected classification. Disabled individuals are given an equal opportunity to use our online application system. We offer reasonable accommodations as an alternative if requested by an individual with a disability. Please contact Zoetis Colleague Services at [email protected] to request an accommodation. Zoetis also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. All applicants must possess or obtain authorization to work in the US for Zoetis. Zoetis retains sole and exclusive discretion to pursue sponsorship for the acquisition or maintenance of nonimmigrant status and employment eligibility, considering factors such as availability of qualified US workers. Individuals requiring sponsorship must disclose this fact. Please note that Zoetis seeks information related to job applications from candidates for jobs in the U.S. solely via the following: (1) our company website at www.Zoetis.com/careers site, or (2) via email to/from addresses using only the Zoetis domain of “@zoetis.com”. In addition, Zoetis does not use Google Hangout for any recruitment related activities. Any solicitation or request for information related to job applications with Zoetis via any other means and/or utilizing email addresses with any other domain should be disregarded. In addition, Zoetis will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with Zoetis.

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