HR Generalist

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We are now looking for an HR Generalist for IKEA City Store in Kyiv

 Who You Are 

You are passionate about people and having a strong belief in individuals’ potential. Your personal values and believes are reflecting what IKEA stands for and the IKEA values. You are inspired by having the opportunity to act local within a global framework, lead business through people and feel happy being able to create solutions that are relevant for both people and business and provide service excellence and excellent co-worker experience.

Your profile:

• Minimum 3 years in Human Resources area.
• Proven record of developing people and organisations.
• Experience from a global matrix organisation and/or participating on global projects.
• Knowledge of how to implement long-term plans, according to set budgets and goals.
• Knowledge of how to engage co-workers throughout the co-worker journey and the year cycle. 
• Knowledge about the rights and obligations of workers and employers, and how to mediate the relationship between workers and employing entities.  
• Knowledge of identifying, assessing, encouraging and ensuring co-workers? performance against organisational and individual goals. 
• Knowledge of introducing a co-worker to a company, the team and work activities in an effective and performance-enhancing way. 
• Knowledge of how to use, govern and manage partnership models in a responsible way to build trustful partnership relationships.
• Ability to work independently, take own initiatives and responsibility but also a team-player
• Active listening and ability expresses ideas and opinions effectively in verbal and written communication
• Excellent in written and spoken English, and local language/s.
• Computer literacy.

 What You Will Be Doing Day To Day 

Your job is to support the unit manager, the managers and co-workers for them to be able to deliver their results and create an excellent customer meeting. Provide People subject matter expertise, process People operations matters and ensure that the localised People strategies are put into practice in the most effective and efficient way.   

You will be part of the People & Culture team and you will:

• Execute all operational People tasks related to HR at the unit level to deliver an excellent co-worker experience
• Support the building of local business competence & performance by setting and working on relevant People goals
• Ensure recruitment and on-boarding of the right talents with the right contracts in close collaboration with the Market area and the unit People Planning specialist
• Ensure and execute delivery of learning & training at the unit level, unless provided by the Market Area
• Securing engagement and retention by understanding the conditions of our co-workers
• Implement Health and Wellbeing initiatives at unit level
• Ensure local employer communication is consistent, well perceived and builds on the IKEA brand
• Implement a co-worker relations plan that effectively manages all local interactions with co-workers and ensures that all areas in the unit work with the labour relations principles and uphold local policies, procedures and laws

Together As A Team

IKEA is all about people, and our team make sure to bring the best people on board to keep our strong spirit of togetherness. We believe that different experiences and backgrounds collectively make us wiser and stronger, and we ensure that our co-workers bloom into their best selves as they contribute to our business.

IKEA Ukraine is a part of IKEA South East Europe - an exciting and empowering region with great growth agenda in all countries - Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine. IKEA South East Europe currently operates 6 stores and we are preparing to open new ones in the nearest future.

We strongly encourage and warmly welcome applications of people of all cultures, backgrounds and experiences because we believe that diversity in IKEA makes us stronger.

Join us now and apply for the position online with your CV in English.