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About the Role

Royal Canin is seeking a HR Associate Experience Lead to partner with the HR Director and own the end-to-end associate experience across North Europe. This role is for someone who thrives on continuous improvement, acts like a business leader, and cares deeply about people, driving the associate experience from offer acceptance to departure.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end associate experience across North Europe, acting as a designer, improver, and owner.
• Treat every touchpoint (onboarding, performance, development, engagement, recognition, offboarding) as a product for continuous improvement, using data and AI tools.
• Partner with and coach line managers to ensure fair and effective application of people policies.
• Stay deeply connected to the business, including category, competitors, and the retail/veterinary ecosystem.
• Use organisational health data to create targeted plans with measurable outcomes.
• Lead the people workstream on transformation programmes and ensure central designs land in six markets.
• Apply working knowledge of employment legislation across the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland as a commercial advantage.
• Pro-actively use digital & AI tools to improve P&O function efficiency, data analysis, insights, and personalization.
• Experiment with new approaches and bring line managers and associates along on the journey.

Requirements

• Proven progressive HR experience with real ownership of recurring programmes.
• A product or continuous-improvement mindset.
• Digitally savvy and comfortable using data for organisational health and decision-making.
• Experience building and running simple tracking and planning systems.
• Experience translating centrally-designed programmes into local execution across multiple countries.
• Sound working knowledge of employment legislation across multiple countries, applied in casework and change/transformation contexts.
• Experience in a program or project management capacity.
• Experience leading or contributing to organisational transformation or change programmes.
• Experience working across multiple countries or a multi-site cluster.

Skills

• Data analysis
• AI tools
• Relationship building
• Change management
• Digital tools
• Experimentation

Location

• UK
• Castle Cary (monthly)

Work Type

• Onsite (monthly)
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Progressive HR experience

Salary/Compensations

• Industry competitive salary

Benefits

• Company bonus
• Access to Mars University
• Learning and development support

About the Company

• Royal Canin's purpose is to make a better world for pets, driven by science, passion, and a belief in changing lives.
• The company is ambitious, growing, and transforming, with North Europe central to this strategy.
• Mars is a purpose-driven company striving to build the world they want tomorrow, today.