EOS Senior P&O BP Lead

Location: FRA-Gard-Aimargues

Type of contract: Ongoing

Location: Ideally Aimargues (France)

Other possible locations: London (UK), Koln (Germany) or Niepolomice (Poland)

Entity: Royal Canin SAS

Driven by our strategic vision to serve 35 million pets and generate $10b NSV by 2030, Royal Canin (RC) stands as a frontrunner in the Pet Nutrition industry. Fueled by our dedication to provide unparalleled experiences for both our customers and associates, we initiated the EOS program in 2023. This initiative blends transformative strategies with extensive digitization efforts, across Supply Chain, Finance, and Sales domains, positioning us at the forefront of industry evolution.

Having proven AI's potential through several successful pilots, we are now structured to scale these initiatives and expand their impact.

As the business moves from the design and pilot phase of its ERP transformation into large-scale global deployment, the Senior P&O Business Partner will play a critical role in enabling the organization to successfully scale and sustain the transformation.

The global ERP transformation team has developed and built a new ERP template, successfully delivered the first release and completed an initial pilot. The next phase will involve the deployment of an enhanced template across major markets and factories, followed by a multi-year deployment across geographies.

The Senior HR Business Partner will be the senior HR partner to the ERP Deployment organization, ensuring that the people, organization, capability and change dimensions are fully integrated into deployment plans.

What are we looking for?

Minimum 10-12 years’ experience as HR generalist. Solid working experience as HR Business partner of supporting business unit with full P&L.

Experience with MNC or global corporation with ability to translate global programs into locally suitable solutions.

Strong consulting skills and ability to leverage expertise to design and deploy impactful people solutions.

Strong business acumen and experience

Ability to work independently and efficiently, with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment.

Good organization skills and the ability to multi-task and capable of establishing priorities

Strong analytical, consultation skill, coaching and problem-solving

Must be able to demonstrate strong verbal written communication

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Lead the People Agenda for ERP Deployment

• Act as the senior HR Business Partner for the global ERP deployment agenda, partnering with the Deployment leadership team, PMO and CXO teams.
• Translate the ERP deployment roadmap into a clear people and organization roadmap covering workforce, organization design, capabilities, leadership, talent and change.
• Ensure people impacts are identified early and embedded into deployment planning and governance.
• Partner with regional and functional P&O teams to ensure consistency of the people approach while allowing for local requirements.
• Provide senior P&O leadership and challenge to ensure deployment decisions consider organizational and people implications.

2.Workforce Ramp-Up / Ramp-Down

• Lead the workforce strategy required to support a multi-year deployment journey, anticipating changing resource requirements across the transformation.
• Partner with business leaders and Talent Acquisition teams to plan the ramp-up of critical capabilities and resources required for each deployment wave.
• Establish approaches to manage the transition from transformation resources into sustainable business capabilities.
• Anticipate and manage ramp-down requirements as deployment waves are completed, ensuring appropriate redeployment, transition or exit strategies.
• Ensure workforce plans are aligned with deployment milestones, priorities and financial objectives.
• Provide visibility of workforce risks, capacity gaps and critical talent requirements to the transformation leadership team.

• Build Capabilities for Transformation and Beyond

• Identify the capabilities required to successfully deploy and sustain the new ERP template and ways of working.
• Partner with Talent, Learning and functional leaders to build the required business, digital, process and change capabilities.
• Ensure critical roles and skills are identified and developed ahead of deployment.
• Support the evolution of the organization from a transformation-focused model toward a sustainable operating model.
• Develop approaches to retain and transfer critical knowledge throughout the deployment lifecycle.
• Manage MDR process for EOS associates and make the link with BAU functions to ensure long term plan for critical talents.

• Organization Design & Ways of Working

• Continue to evolve the organization design and ways of working established during the initial transformation phase as the program scales.
• Partner with business and functional leaders to assess the impact of new ERP processes and capabilities on roles, responsibilities and organizational structures.
• Ensure clarity of accountabilities between global, regional and local organizations.
• Support leaders in transitioning from project-based ways of working toward sustainable business ownership.
• Ensure organization design decisions enable simplification, efficiency and effective adoption of the new ERP model.

• Drive Change Management and Adoption

• Ensure Change Management is embedded as an integral part of every deployment, rather than treated as a separate workstream.
• Partner closely with the Change Management, PMO and CXO teams to ensure consistent change approaches, tools, governance and ways of working across functions and regions.
• Ensure deployment teams understand the organizational and people impacts of the ERP transformation.
• Support leaders and managers in preparing their teams for new processes, roles, systems and ways of working.
• Identify organizational resistance, change risks and adoption barriers and ensure appropriate actions are taken.
• Help create a consistent employee experience across deployment waves while adapting approaches to local business and cultural contexts
• What can you expect from Mars?
• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
• Additional Locations: DEU-North Rhine-Westphalia-Cologne, GBR-Leicestershire-Waltham, POL-Malopolskie-Niepolomice