People & Culture Local Services Consultant - Newtown Square PA Office

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a d passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

Location Requirement: This role is based out of our Newtown Square, PA office and follows a hybrid work model. Employees are expected to be on-site three days per week in alignment with team and business needs.

What You'll Do:

As a People & Culture Local Services consultant you will act as a Functional Specialists providing unique country expertise to deliver best in class experiences across the employee lifecycle while at the same time driving operational excellence to ensure compliance.

Design / Administer HR Services:
- Implement and manage HR programs, policies, and practices using both global models and local on-site support.
- Maintain comprehensive knowledge of HR service areas to address employee inquiries effectively.
- Ensure detailed record-keeping of HR activities and maintain high-quality HR data within various systems.

Employee Lifecycle Support:
- Evaluate and validate local HR policy compliance for various functions.
- Deliver a wide array of processes in-country / onsite including Onboarding, Contractual Changes, Benefits Operations, Time & Absences, and End of Employment.
- Provide 1:1 consultancy on local HR policies, acting as a second-level case manager for policy queries.
- Manage non-digital employee files and documentation as per legal requirements.

Organizational and Operational Support:
- Support SAP’s business development activities like restructurings and location consolidations.
- Play a key role in M&A projects, facilitating post-merger integration.

Process Improvement and Innovation:
- Monitor SLAs and KPIs, using feedback to enhance service efficiency and processes.
- Lead / Support roll-outs of new processes and tools, coordinating with IT on updates and training.
- Proactively and consistently raise process improvement opportunities from the local view.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management:
- Act as a liaison between local and global HR service teams.
- Support partnerships with HR Directors, People Relations, Total Rewards, and external vendors.

What You Will Bring:

Experience and Expertise:
- Strong competence with HR tool and procedures,
- Independent project management skills with the ability to assess risks and ensure timely project delivery.

Communication and Collaboration Skills:
- Ability to communicate clearly across functions, providing constructive feedback and ensuring understanding within defined policies.
- Proven ability to build collaborative work relationships with HR counterparts and stakeholders.

Problem-Solving and Innovation:
- Experience in driving process improvement initiatives.
- Proactive approach in enhancing HR services for better efficiency and compliance.

Career Level and Accountability:
- Proven track record of working independently within defined processes to deliver project outcomes.
- Experience handling projects of moderate complexity with regular reporting to management.

Preferred candidate has prior experience in HR service delivery

Meet Your Team:

People & Culture Local Services is a worldwide organization comprised of functional specialists dedicated to providing efficient services and consultancy across the employee lifecycle, with particular focus on areas requiring unique country-specific support. Our team plays a crucial role in enabling cloud transformation by tailoring global solutions to meet local needs, and serves as a key connector, linking teams and processes within each country.

Our mission is to ensure compliance and safeguard SAP, while simultaneously enhancing employee experiences to help our colleagues thrive. By localizing solutions and fostering collaboration, we aim to bring out the best in our employees, aligning with SAP's broader objectives of innovation and excellence. Join us in our commitment to elevate the people experience and drive transformative change across our organization.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in ing for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 69,800-152,300 (USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.