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HR Operations Manager

City: Istanbul Merkez

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance. Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance - and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.

About the role

Take the lead in shaping the future of Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, and HR Operations at Reckitt. As the HR Operations Manager, you will play a central role in ensuring employees are rewarded accurately, compliantly, and on time - while continuously improving the systems and processes behind these operations. This position goes beyond managing payroll; it requires driving innovation, strengthening data integrity, and elevating the employee experience across multiple HR domains. You will collaborate closely with local and regional Rewards teams, Finance, HR Business Partners, and external providers to deliver seamless payroll cycles, accurate compensation documentation, and smooth international transfer processes. Your leadership will also be key in managing employee relations activities, supporting legal and governmental requirements, and contributing to major annual projects such as pay review and gender pay gap reporting.

By joining Reckitt, you'll commit to an environment where your strategic thought and decisive action will be instrumental in driving our shared service centre forward.

Your responsibilities

Compensation and Benefits

• Support the local & regional Rewards teams.
• In conjunction with HR Business Partners and Rewards Leads, draft Offer Letters, Contracts, Role Change Letters and Severance agreements.
• Key ownership of portals / systems and international transferee population tracking, ensuring the data held is up to date and accurate.
• Work with the Finance department to ensure adequate estimates, forecasts, and calculations of expenditures in compensation for budget planning and tracking.

Projects
• Support and own local & regional projects alongside the wider team. This may include supporting the Rewards team for annual projects such as pay review or gender pay gap reporting and other projects from concept to delivery working with many different stakeholders in the business.

International Transfer Process / Third-Party Providers
• Manage life-cycle of international transferees, working closely to ensure that the international transfer process is operating as smooth as possible.
• Provide policy application advice to HR stakeholders and transferees.
• Track progress of moves, providing updates to all relevant stakeholders and escalating issues as needed.
• Review invoices to ensure accuracy of cost centers and employee ID numbers to facilitate quick processing of POs.

Payroll
• Manage monthly payroll processing and analysis.
• Update payroll records by reviewing and approving changes in exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, and job titles, and department/ division transfers.
• Assist employees with all payroll questions and requests.
• Lead & coach the one direct report, Payroll & Benefits Analyst.

Employee Relations
• Act as first point of contact to all employees about all Employment related processes.
• Manage all governmental process, employment documentation, work permissions, visas etc.
• Comply with information security policies and to support internal information security awareness activities.
• Ensure proper documentation & data accuracy with highest standards for various local & independent audit requirements.
• Support the end-to-end union relations for the Tuzla Factory, in collaboration with the Tuzla HRBP, actively participate in Collective bargaining process every two years, providing salary & benefits data and required other reports & analysis.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s Degree in any business-related course or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of experience in Employee Relations, Payroll, end to end HR Operations and Data Management.
• Good knowledge in labour law and compliance & local practices.
• Comfortable with data analysis, HR Metrics, and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of HRIS systems (specially SAP Success Factors).
• High level of English proficiency.
• Advanced level of MS Office (especially Excel) programs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong attention to detail and process orientation.
• Agility to adapt changes & strong resilience.

The skills for success

Data and Analytics, HR Process Improvement; Process management; HR Process improvement, Storytelling; Data led storytelling, Organisational structure, Change management, Execute plans, Strategic mindset, Employment engagement, Coaching skills, Digital literacy, Commercial accumen, Courageous leadership.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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