HR, Organizational Architecture & Leveling Expert

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

As a HR Organizational Architecture & Leveling Expert, you will be a part of the Global Total Rewards & Effectiveness Center of Expertise Team and you will collaborate with HRBPs, business stakeholders in designing and maintaining job family frameworks, and updating job profiles to align with business goals.

This role will be responsible for establishing equitable job levels and hierarchies, regularly updating competencies based on market changes and internal needs, as well as acting as the main liaison with the Reward and Talent CoE teams to ensure a harmonized job evaluation methodology and career pathing across various regions. You will also need to ensure compliance with internal requirements and integration with the broader HR policy framework. We seek for someone who has an expert understanding of HR practices, job designs, competency frameworks, and organizational designs.

Main Responsibilities:

Job Architecture Design:

• Maintain the overall job architectures and frameworks, including define the job family groups and job family profiles and reporting relationships, which involve assessing the business/functions’ needs, determining adherent models, aligning them with the business strategy and current market practice

Job Catalog Governance:

• Analyze and design job profiles that are well-defined, showing clear responsibilities, capabilities, and ensuring alignment with the business needs
• Establish policies and procedures to ensure correct use of the catalogs and job profiles worldwide

Job Leveling Governance:

• Establish the job leveling policies and procedures by applying governance
• Measure the compliance to ensure clarity and consistency in job levels, competencies which are required at each job level, and opportunities for professional growth and development

Job Analysis and Evaluation:

• Contribute to the design and delivery of job analysis and job evaluation methods, processes
• Facilitate job evaluation programs and perform regular review of the job evaluations’ ceiling within LDC to ensure correct comparison versus the marker

Predictive Analysis and Insights:

• Develop functional or operational policies as well as policy frameworks for job organizational architecture & leveling
• Responsible for creating underlying procedures and monitoring their implementation
• Deliver HR data analysis; identify job trends and contribute to the creation of Job Architecture and Framework insights that enable the diagnosis of business issues, enhancement on current job architecture, and/or improvement of business performance

Internal Client Partnering:

• Build and manage relationships with internal clients
• Act as a business partner to the internal clients by building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust, and managing the deployment of appropriate internal and/or external resources to support in delivering Job Organizational Architecture and Leveling that fits the business/organization needs

HR Process Optimization:

• Identify opportunities to enhance and improve job processes and policies, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, and positive career experience
• Leverage HR technology solutions to provide consistent, high-quality, and structured data to internal clients

Experiences:

• At least 4-6 years of relevant working experiences in job compensation/organisation design
• Proven experience in job organisation design and compensation practices, disciplines including job leveling evaluation methods
• Experience in project management, stakeholder management
• Experience in business partnering by applying business knowledge and market practices to advance the organizational goals
• Ability to work with teams in different geographical locations
• Ability to work within a complex and international environment
• Ability to manage data and summarize large quantity of data into key/actionable insights
• Ability to analyze trends, data, and numbers to draw meaningful conclusions and write comprehensive reports
• Ability to present complex technical concepts in an accessible manner to stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent communication skills
• Interpersonal skills, ability to forge relationships with colleagues and external parties
• Ability to work independently and in collaborative settings
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle pressure
• Independent self-starter who takes initiative, and has a proactive attitude toward problems and issues
• Good time management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in Excel
• Experience with BI tools for analytics
• Strong statistical and analytical skills, with a solid understanding of data management best practices

Languages:

• English (Fluent)

Academics:

• Degree or Master’s in HR, Business Management, Economics, Statistics or related field of study

Additional Information for the job

Diversity & Inclusion



LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.



LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability



Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.



We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We offer

• A workplace culture that embraces diversity and inclusivity
• Regular events that foster team engagement
• Access to Training and Development
• Hybrid work arrangement offered (availability varies by role).
• Comprehensive insurance coverage and flexible benefits