In Europe, Tesco operates in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, offering great value to customers every day. Tesco’s operations in Hungary have been serving shoppers since 1995.

• Manage and supervise direct reports within the People & Payroll Ops Team in country and the Hub, support with decisions on managing work and control to meet the Business SLAs. Define strategy and approach to manage resources and capability within People & Payroll Ops.
• Ensure the People & Payroll Teams reviewed processes to be in line with the legislative guidelines and company policies; reviewed controls on a regular basis to improve delivery and avoid payroll leakage.
• Sign off certain critical activities that impact colleague data, pay and reporting to state authorities, etc.
• Be a part of the change board conversations to review the change requirements, impact on People & Payroll Ops, make decisions on project plans for UAT based on effort estimation and highlight risks / issues to the appropriate teams.
• Be the escalation point for any Technology or processing related issues.
• Work collaboratively with the Systems Team and the COE Teams to review changes with respect to policy, rewards and recognition, thereby support implementation and also revise processes within People Ops for delivery. Lead projects and initiatives based on business requirements.
• Drive a culture of CI to ensure internal hand-offs, ways of working constantly improve. Drive engagement with key stakeholders, process owners and people teams across representative business units. Be audit ready and close any pending items highlighted by the Audit Team.
• Manage regular governance with the in country and the Hub Leadership Teams to review performance, future plans/strategy, risks, etc.
• Conduct performance mgmt. conversations for team members including data driven conversations with individuals, performance feedback, developmental feedback, performance rating discussions, skip level conversations. Mentor and coach team members. Create robust succession planning and career path for team members, reward and recognize the efforts and results in a timely manner. Ensure appropriate learning and development initiatives are in place for all team members. Handle any staff related queries, grievances in consultation with People Team.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

• 5 years in Shared Services or Payroll environment
• min. 4 years’ experience in People Management
• University degree
• Fluent English knowledge
• Fluent Czech or Slovak language knowledge
• Hungarian language knowledge is not required but is a plus.
• Strong leadership and management skills