Global Absence Lead

🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Remote
👥 Human Resources🟣 Senior

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Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

We are recruiting for a Global Absence Lead to join us on a 6-month FTC taking responsibility for leading absence and time off management within our HRIS.

The role:

  • Provide expertise on key absence management business processes, including time off.
  • Monitor project milestones, and risks, ensuring timely delivery and successful execution.
  • Collaborate with regional SMEs to understand regional requirements and ensure compliance with local and global absence regulations and best practices.
  • Ensure compliance with holiday policies, statuary leave policies, and other organisational absence policies.
  • Manage other stakeholder engagement as required.
  • Collaborates with technical workstreams on integrations, data, and security.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Absence management, and will manage stakeholders across multiple countries to ensure seamless implementation.

You will have:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field preferred.

  • Strong knowledge of absence management and time tracking issues, HR Transformation, or Project Management.

  • Experience managing projects from inception to implementation in global environments.

  • Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent) is a plus.

  • Proven ability to manage global stakeholders at all levels, tailoring communications accordingly and driving cross-functional collaboration.

  • Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

  • Experience working in multinational organisations with complex job structures with the ability to navigate cultural differences highly preferred.

  • A collaborative mindset and working style.

  • Methodical and solutions-oriented, with a strong eye for detail and accuracy.

Additional Information

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.

We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

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