Senior People and Communications Generalist

KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry: our job is to make the world’s cities better places to live. At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization, which add value to the life cycle of any building.

KONE People & Communications team enables business performance and competitiveness through engaged and capable people, strong reputation management, impactful internal and external communications and great employee experiences. We bring KONE’s strategy to life, supporting competence, capability and culture development as well as strengthening the KONE purpose and company story for all our stakeholders. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of topics, while also working closely with our businesses, to help drive the People and Communications agenda.

We are looking for a

Senior P&C Generalist

to support KONE Head Quarters, Finland with people related initiatives and processes to meet the KONE strategy.

You will focus on support, advising, coaching, and developing managers and their teams of selected units located in Espoo, Finland in close collaboration with the Global P&C Business Partners. You will support the deployment of the global P&C initiatives locally and participate in orchestrating the P&C service delivery to our business. You will also where applicable run selected annual people processes/ deliverables independently within; Resourcing and Talent Management, Performance Management and Learning & Development. In addition, you will support certain P&C activities on Nordic level.

This role is a great opportunity for you to grow in all areas of P&C – including the possibility to support and participate in some of the key strategic development initiatives, as well as working very hands on and ensuring the operational flow of the P&C processes within your area.

To be successful in this role, you’ll have the following:

• MSc. or BSc degree in business, HR or equivalent experience, several years of working experience in HR Generalist and/or a HR specialist role
• Proven track to run HR annual processes independently
• Supportive and flexible mindset
• Excellent influencing and presentation skills
• Experience in working across functions and in matrix set-ups
• Ability for fast decision making and escalation when required to meet customer expectations
• Interest in P&C data related decision making
• Hands-on project management and change management experience
• Management of Union relationships or negotiations is seen as asset
• Fluency of Finnish and English are required to be successful in the role.
  
  

What we offer:

• Great career and growth opportunities
• Chance to be part of developing our ways of working in KONE HQ and the Nordics, and to be part of driving culture development
• An environment where our managers and employees truly value your contributions as P&C and have a positive outlook on this support.
  
  

For additional information please contact Sara Belin [email protected] . Please notice due to vacation time, the responses will be delayed.

If you are interested in this position, please submit your application including your CV and cover letter via our Careers- site by 10th August.

Now you have a great opportunity to join a team of skilled colleagues, work in a global environment, and being part of our HR transformation journey which supports our new strategy!

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on www.kone.com/careers