HR People Partner Italy

**Your Job**:
You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your HR role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

**About Us**:
Scott®. Kleenex®. Huggies®. Cottonelle®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day. And it takes the right people, in the right jobs and the right places, to make that happen.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform—so what can you do with that? There’s no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

**About You**:
As the HR People Partner, you will lead HR practices and objective in Italy Business both for the Consumer (Kimberly-Clark) and the Professional (Kimberly-Clark Professional) businesses.

You will be responsible to support Leaders in being able to navigate in a constant changing environment to accelerate performance through our people, our culture and our organization. You will shape and develop the HR agenda, as well as drive the execution of key initiatives, coordinating with business leaders and Centers Of Excellence (COEs) on the program needs for Italy. Furthermore, you will connect and translate Global, EMEA and Western Europe people strategies ensuring that the local/Italy people plan is relevant and meaningful.

Moreover, you will provide the right employee experience, cultural environment, capabilities and organizational design that promotes a high-performance culture. Your drive will be important to ensure the business is set up for success from a people perspective - both now and in the future.

The role reports to the Western Europe HR Director, Consumer, and is an individual contributor (no direct reports).

**YOUR KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Budget responsibility.
- Strategic trusted advisor and partner with senior leaders on initiatives to drive Italian business results
- Preserve organizational health and shape culture
- Own organizational design and drive organizational effectiveness
- Work with COEs to deploy global standard programs and processes (i.e., Calibration)
- Lead Italy HQs and commercial labor relations
- Escalated Employee Relations case resolution
- Own Inclusion & diversity strategies to enable achievement of representation and inclusion goals
- Accountable for embedding change management relating to People Strategy and Service Delivery Model
- Responsibility to build HR Capability & support careers

**WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU**:

- Significant previous experience as HR Business Partner in the Italian market
- Experience in owning, leading, and driving workforce planning via sound headcount, expenses and budgets management taking into consideration the overall P&L.
- High level of understanding of the business and of internal and external data metrics to support decision making on local people plans
- Ability to think and act strategically while delivering operational excellence
- Excellent interpersonal relations skills and a successful track record of partnering with executives delivering superior business results
- Strategic thinker, fast learner, agile and curious approach, action-oriented
- Strong Leadership and Influencing Skills
- Fluent in English & Italian is required

**We Offer**:
**Please submit your CV in English as it will be considered by English speakers.**

In the meantime, you can check out the Careers Areas on our website (if you haven’t already). You’ll want to review this and come prepared with a few relevant questions if and when you pass GO and begin interviews.

**#LI-Hybrid**
- For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law._
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