Description
The Senior Human Resources Business Partner for Continental Europe is a senior leadership role accountable for shaping and delivering the people strategy across multiple European markets.
This role partners closely with BlackRock's European Country Managers and regional leadership to drive organizational effectiveness, build leadership and talent pipelines, strengthen cultural cohesion, and ensure regulatory and people risk management – directly enabling BlackRock's commercial success and delivery to clients as the most global asset manager operating in Europe.
The ideal candidate is a strategic, hands-on leader who thrives in complexity and translates strategy into action. They bring experience across the European labour market and a strong track record of navigating global, high-performance organisations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning and delivering a cohesive HR strategy for Continental Europe, aligned with global people priorities and country business objectives.
- Serving as a trusted advisor to Country Managers and regional leadership on organizational design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, succession and change management.
- Anticipating and interpreting geopolitical, macroeconomic and regulatory developments and translating their potential impact into clear workforce, leadership decisions and people risk implications.
- Representing Continental Europe in firmwide people initiatives and contributing to global HR strategy.
- Operating locally but navigating globally to support leaders and employees across diverse markets.
- Providing regional oversight across core HR disciplines, developing high-performing partnerships with the broader HR BPs, HR Operations, Centres of Excellence, Legal, Finance and others across Europe and New York to deliver effective outcomes.
- Driving standardization and process optimization to improve efficiency and employee experience.
- Driving organisational change and shaping decision-making on high-impact and complex people issues.
- Influencing senior leaders on engagement, employee experience and inclusion initiatives.
- Leading and developing the Continental European HR Advisors to deliver high-quality guidance across the employee lifecycle and drive resolution to complex operational matters.
- Partnering with Employee Relations and legal counsel to identify, mitigate, and resolve employee relations issues and manage local staff delegations.
- Providing leadership input into reward philosophy and delivery of the annual compensation cycle.
- Driving informed decision-making through data and insight.
- Reinforcing and continually evolving BlackRock's culture across Continental Europe.
- Embedding the HR Channel strategy, employee self-service and AI-enabled solutions across the region.
Requirements include:
- 15+ years of HR Business Partner experience, including designing and delivering a people strategy in complex, multi-country European environments.
- Demonstrated ability to advise, challenge and influence senior business leaders in a consultative capacity.
- A strong track record of creating a shared vision and influencing HR Centres of Excellence and cross-functional partners to deliver outcomes.
- Experience working across the various HR disciplines including reward and talent.
- Ability to build effective and trusted relationships and networks across geographies and cultures, inspiring trust amongst colleagues.
- Experience delivering firm-wide talent initiatives with excellence in fast-paced, global environments.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to simplify, influence and tailor messages.
- Ability to use HR data and analytics to generate insight and inform decisions.
- A leadership style that sets the bar and drives accountability.
- Comfort in owning the detail as well as the strategy.
- Ability to adapt solutions to changing demands, anticipating the regional and global implications.
- Strong commercial acumen and demonstrated interest in financial services.
Benefits include:
- Retirement investment and tools designed to help build a sound financial future.
- Access to education reimbursement.
- Comprehensive resources to support physical health and emotional well-being.
- Family support programs.
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) to relax, recharge and be there for loved ones.
Hybrid work model enables a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship, with employees required to work at least 4 days in the office per week.
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.