# HR Business Partner - Serbia, Central and Eastern Europe - Maternity Leave Cover

**Company**: Valvoline Global Operations
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Automotive

**Apply**: https://jobs.valvolineglobal.com/job/HR-Business-Partner-Serbia%2C-Central-and-Eastern-Europe-Maternity-Leave-Cover-37000/1427894200/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f3a48688-7f2

## Description

We are seeking an experienced HR professional to act as a trusted Business Partner to management and employees across our Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) operations.

The successful candidate will combine strategic HR partnering with hands-on operational involvement, supporting the business through change, growth, and regional complexity.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Act as a strategic HR partner to line managers, advising on people decisions, organisational design, and workforce planning

- Support employee lifecycle processes across several CEE countries, ensuring consistency and compliance with local regulations

- Build strong relationships with stakeholders to align HR practices with business needs

- Contribute to regional HR projects and process improvements

- Provide guidance on performance management, employee relations, and talent development

- Be actively involved in HR administration and payroll-related processes, with a solid understanding of how these operations work

- Analyse large volumes of payroll and HR data to identify trends, draw conclusions, and flag potential risks

- Translate data into actionable insights on budget impact, forecasting implications for management

- Own accurate HR documentation, contracts, and personnel files, ensuring compliance with internal procedures

**Requirements:**

- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work confidently with payroll and HR data

- Flexibility and willingness to learn

- Robust experience in an HR Business Partner role, preferably with production or manufacturing experience (though not mandatory)

- Experience in a similar HR generalist/business partner role, ideally across multiple markets

- Regional and cultural awareness

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

## Skills

### Required
- HR Business Partner
- payroll
- HR data analysis
- organisational design
- workforce planning
- performance management
- employee relations
- talent development

### Nice to have
- production
- manufacturing
- multiple markets

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Source: [Apply at jobs.valvolineglobal.com](https://jobs.valvolineglobal.com/job/HR-Business-Partner-Serbia%2C-Central-and-Eastern-Europe-Maternity-Leave-Cover-37000/1427894200/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)