People Experience Leader

Engaging our growth mindset, the Nielsen Media People team builds and delivers people strategy globally to develop our future leaders. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the forefront of everything we do to ensure our people are able to thrive and grow with us. The People team also drives employee engagement as we build and deliver our people strategy in partnership with the business. When we’re engaged, we can make a difference, be ourselves and grow with our company. Our connection to our work, our workplace and one another intensifies, which in turn, drives performance and business results

The People Experience (PX) Lead for Growth Markets (Southeast Asia and Greater China) will provide strategic and operational guidance on all areas of HR support in the markets and will ensure best in class HR practices as designed by our COEs are deployed throughout the region and adjusted where necessary. The PX Lead will be accountable for compliance with all employment laws and regulations in the region, and will also partner with the Global Talent Strategist team to provide input and align People actions with the larger Business Unit-specific talent strategies. The PX Director will have a team of PX Managers or Specialists to help support the ongoing operations of the markets

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead a team of people accountable for providing effective HR service delivery and operations for a population of 900+ employees across 9 markets. Particular emphasis is on the delivery of HR activity where region, country, or local context is required. Interfaces with Global Talent Strategist teams to: Provide input on Talent conversations and processes; Give visibility to talent needs in the region; Ensure continuity in career and development plans for high potential employees; And to provide any other insight that may be helpful or necessary for the Global Talent Strategists' holistic view of their organizations
- Accountability for local deployment & delivery of HR processes, projects, and change programs as determined at a Corporate/business/functional level. Including policy and procedural compliance across the area and responsibility for Diversity & Inclusion deployment, monitoring, and compliance.
- Drive the effectiveness of the HR delivery model ensuring consistency of HR processes and approach across countries or locations ( where possible). In particular: Utilizing resources at a country or site level to ensure effective use of team resources; Maintaining a strong partnership with all key stakeholders in the HR model to enable integrated HR Service delivery; Maximise synergies and the coordination of shared resources in order to deploy processes and local projects across the site/areas as effectively as possible.
- Interface with the Global Employee Relation Leader, where necessary for the deployment of the Global ER strategy at a country or site. Ensure good employee relations in conjunction with Work Council & Employee representative groups and line management. In particular: Have a broad knowledge of Statutory Information and Consultation processes at the country or site level to ensure legal compliance; Manage sensitive and complex ER issues at the cluster level including collective negotiations, where appropriate working closely with the PX Country Lead & Global ER Leader; Providing employee advocacy and workforce intelligence to ER Leaders to support the development of ER strategy.
- Lead local components of projects and wider change programs. In particular: Implementation of organizational change / re-design, in response to needs identified through HR or local line management; Deliver wider business /corporate and HR change programs across countries as required.
- Interface with COEs (Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Talent & Development) to ensure a consistent approach to Nielsen’s Employment Value Proposition, Culture, Leadership, and Engagement initiatives across the Region.
- Identifies, designs, and delivers country-specific or regional needs in the areas of onboarding, employee relations, total rewards, benefits, compensation, Learning, engagement and internal communications.
- Partner with the local Corporate Functions ( Finance, Legal, Integrity Real Estate) to ensure integration of HR operations and policies into the larger regional and country-specific operational needs, such as budgets, compliance, and regulatory requirements, and so on.
- Coaches and develops an internationally distributed team of Human Resources People Experience representatives.
- Be an integral part of any current and future Regional HR Leadership team; work closely with other PX leaders for deployment
- Work closely with other Regional PX Leaders and other PX Leads to identify, streamline & provide effective & optimized HR services.
- Ensures all practices adhere to the utmost integrity and compliance in all regulatory matters.

**Key Experience & Qualifications**:

- 10+ years of broad and de