Job Description

The Workforce Support Team Lead will perform the role, and lead a team of specialists who provide day to day HR workforce support to a primary set of sites/countries. This role will engage with employees and leaders directly to coach, and assist with issue resolution. This team leader will build relationships across the workforce support teams, with the HR business partners and talent acquisition, talent management, total rewards centers of excellence (COE’s) and with the leaders in their site group/region. Reporting to the regional GWO Hub Leader, this individual will be a key leader within the EMEA GWO team.

Main Tasks:

• Leads a team of workforce support specialists. Ensures strong performance and capability within the team. Gives timely coaching and feedback.

• Manage the team’s overall objectives, workload, training, hiring and development. They will be actively engaged in understanding the team’s portfolio of work, and will engage the Hub Leader in higher complexity cases

• Work closely with the other teams in GWO to ensure that employee inquiries and issues are resolved in a timely, customer-oriented, and comprehensive way.

• Partner closely with the HRBPs for the region, ensuring critical information is shared in order to create the best possible employee relations and talent strategies.

• Use data to maintain, develop, recommend, implement and improve workforce support objectives, policies, and procedures.

• Become an expert and an advocate for digital process redesign and using technology to improve both HR and employee experience. Thoroughly understands the HR toolset and how to maximize the value and effectiveness in our Workforce Support processes.

• Drive the acceleration of standardization and harmonization initiatives across all business units. A laser focus on efficiency, effectiveness and experience.

• Communicates directly with employees and managers regularly regarding escalated/elevated workforce support concerns. Support workforce support specialists in elevated/difficult situations and provide guidance and recommendations for resolution of issues.

• Directly partners with legal and the Country Lead as needed on matters requiring consultation.

• Assists managers and supervisors in understanding and implementing company policies related to performance, discipline, and related topics.

• Ensures compliance with human resource policies and procedures within the team.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Study in HR Management or a related field preferred, and previous HR field-level experience required

• Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with employees, functional leaders, and other stakeholders.

• Solid understanding of human resources and labour relations principles, practices, and procedures with a focus on the Netherlands.

• Experience in leading a high-performing and diverse team.

• Digital fluency.

• Solid working understanding of statistical concepts and methods of data collection and comprehensive reporting

• Ability to simplify and prioritise work in accordance with our HR service delivery model

• The role will require occasional travel to various sites across the region

• Communicate & motivate - excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• English fluency is required

Additional Information

About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. We are Making Possible™ products and solutions that help advance the industries we serve, providing branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers. We design and develop labeling and functional materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital, and offerings that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving industries worldwide — including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive — we employ approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2024 were $8.8 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

We're not just a global leader in materials science and branding solutions; we're a team of passionate individuals committed to bringing brands to life and transforming how businesses connect with their customers. Whether through our Embelex platform, empowering creativity with on-product branding, or our Aftermarket solutions, optimizing apparel production and supply chains, we work together to solve complex challenges and create a more sustainable future.

Our vision unites us: Together, we connect the physical and digital to solve some of the world's most complex challenges.

Every voice. Every day! Eight Values. One Team!

We understand diversity and equal opportunities as enrichment for our future-oriented work at Avery Dennison. With us, teams are balanced and diverse. Because each of us is unique, and we appreciate bringing together different personalities and talents.