HR Business Partner - International

Who is Virgin Pulse?

Virgin Pulse, founded as part of Sir Richard Branson’s famed Virgin Group, helps organizations build employee health and wellbeing into the DNA of their corporate cultures. As the only company to deliver a powerful, mobile-first digital platform infused with live services, including coaching and biometric screenings, Virgin Pulse’s takes a high-tech-meets-high-touch-approach to engage employees in improving across all aspects of their health and wellbeing, every day – from prevention and building a healthy lifestyle to condition and disease management to condition reversal, all while engaging users daily in building and sustaining healthy habits and behaviors. A global leader in health and wellbeing, Virgin Pulse is committed to helping change lives and businesses around the world for good so that people and organizations can thrive, together. Today, more than 3100 organizations across the globe are using Virgin Pulse’s solutions to improve health, employee wellbeing and engagement, reduce costs and create strong workplace cultures.

Who are our employees?

At Virgin Pulse we’re passionate about changing lives for good. We want to make a difference in the world by helping people be healthy so they can perform at their best, every day, at work and home. Our award-winning solutions support leading employers in improving and simplifying the employee health and wellbeing journey and engaging people in all aspects of their health. But our world-class products and programs are nothing without our people – the employees who design, build, promote, sell, test and perfect the latest innovations in workplace health and wellbeing. Our people are our top priority and we invest in their health and happiness. At Virgin Pulse, we have so much more than a strong, supportive company culture – have a shared vision for a healthier, happier world.

Virgin Pulse values and celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. As a global employer, we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. As we are committed to diversifying our company, we strongly encourage candidates that are historically underrepresented in the tech industry to apply.

Who you are

The HR Business Partner will be responsible for operational delivery of the entire HR spectrum across Australia, Singapore, Canada, UK, and Europe, with the exception of Bosnia. This role will be tasked with delivery of the People Strategy including talent acquisition and retention along with the provision of HR advice to management and employees. Also a top priority is working closely with local and remote leaders to ensure HR risk is managed, and our fun, innovative, high-performing culture is maintained.

In this role you will wear many hats but your skills will be especially essential in the following:

• Provide strategic business partnership and coaching to people managers to positively impact the motivation, development and retention of talent.
• Provide timely and accurate HR advice and guidance to all staff, flagging risks and issues to the regional manager or Global People Team
• Serve as subject-matter expert concerning HR requirements and regulations related to employment, compensation and employee relations.
• Partner with People Team to deploy talent programs (performance assessment & review, succession planning, development planning).
• Partner with senior business leaders and Learning & Development, to conduct learning needs assessments, establish development priorities and promote development resources to employees.
• Assist with the delivery of employee engagement initiatives and help to increase the engagement scores of each region
• Responsible for building effective, credible and professional relationships with senior leaders and teams in all
• Assist with the talent acquisition process, up to and including preparation of employment contracts, onboarding and inductions. Assist with all stages of recruitment, including screening candidates, conducting interviews, and providing advice on all hiring
• Assist managers in responding to conduct or performance issues. Provide guidance in the processes for performance management and disciplining employees, aligned to local
• Be the conduit between HR and finance for payroll, benefits, parental and annual
• Participate as a key member of the Global People team and implement global
• Manage the continuous improvement cycle across all policies and business

What you bring to the team

• Must hold a HR degree and/or qualification
• 4+ years experience as a HR Generalist or HR Business Partner or a very similar position
• Must be able to analyse and present information in such a way that is understood by everyone within the organisation
• Extremely well organised and methodical in approach to problem solving
• A self-motivated individual who doesn’t need to be closely managed on a daily basis
• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal and written, and happy to work across a range of timezones. Excellent English skills and it’s a bonus if you can speak German
• It would be beneficial to have an understanding of local HR legislation, company policies and processes – however a lot of this can be taught on the job
• Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders to achieve business outcomes
• Experience in a fast paced, dynamic work environment
• Ability to accurately assess complex issues and identify potential solutions
• Competency in various HR systems and Microsoft Office

Security Competencies:

Work to maintain system and data security at a high standard, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Virgin Pulse application is not compromised. Adhere to industry best practice coding standards and verify all code developed at Virgin Pulse is free from bugs and security vulnerabilities such as those defined and published by OWASP.

Why work here?

We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive work environment, strong employee culture and cutting-edge technology and services — so many reasons to love it here.

*We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected class status.