Job DescriptionThe Senior Associate, HR Shared Service guides employees through their lifecycle at Ford by advising them in any HR matters and completing administrative tasks in the internal systems. His/her goal is to ensure an excellent customer experience, which includes phone and chat support, transactional processes based on our operational documentation and service promise in order to provide end-to-end customer care.
Responsibilities - Supporting employees and dependents, managers, HR management, government agencies and applicants.
- Accurately completing transactions, understanding the customer's questions and issues, advising them in a professional way and handling their queries in a timely manner utilizing HR Contact Center procedures, policy manuals, knowledge management system and other reference materials
- Creating employment related documents that support the regulations of the country-specific legal environment
- Document all transactions, customer inquiries and their resolutions in the HR Contact Center case management technology application
- Meet and strive to exceed HR Contact Center Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Increase HR subject matter knowledge seeking first call resolution, shorten call time and increase data quality.
- Escalate customer requests in a timely manner when additional research or analysis is necessary.
- Manage control through the transactions audit process
- Being proactive in handling risks or process gaps that you face and involving the responsible teams to find a solution together.
- Initiating and leading process improvement projects to release capacity for the incoming new processes
- Any other duties as required by the line manager
QualificationsProfessional background: - Desirable Bachelor's Degree preferably in Human Resources, Business Administration, or other related fields
- Being curious about HR processes and employee-focused operations and have 0-3-year experience within customer service or HR
Key abilities: - Speaking English and Spanish fluently, supporting the business on a daily basis in both languages
- Communicating effectively on phone and in e-mail as well
- Paying attention to details related to employee questions and data accuracy
- Showing flexibility with staff scheduling and time zone differences
- Proficient/intermediate understanding of MS Excel and Word
Key Characteristics: - dedicated to job
- self-driven & independent
- analytical, result-oriented structured way of working
- excellent interpersonal skills
- precise working method
- technology skilled
- human centric mindset
- learning ability
- accountability
- customer focused (Consistent, high quality & professional customer service)
Desirable skills: - Knowledge and understanding of various HR processes
- Continuous improvement
- Effectiveness (First time through)
- Effective customers recovering
- Negotiation
- Provide HR counseling to customers
- Active Listening
- Working interregional
- Flexible to scheduling changes and time zones
- effective decisions making