Country P&C Leader

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This role has two primary accountabilities;

Lead all People and Communities activities in Poland

As the People & Communities Country Lead for Poland which comprises over 2,000 Cisconians. You will play a key role in shaping our people strategy and fostering a positive employee experience. You will partner with business leaders, leadership boards, and ambassadors to champion the People & Communities agenda, provide strategic consulting, and drive adoption of key initiatives.

Working closely with P&C Country Consultants and the wider ecosystem, you will lead change management, boost engagement, and ensure compliance across Poland. Your influence will extend to both internal and external communities, where you will co-design and implement HR solutions, strategies, and programs tailored to local needs.

Your deep understanding of the business landscape, market trends, and Cisco's people agenda will enable you to deliver impactful outcomes and support the success of our teams in Poland.

People Partner to the VP EMEA CX Centres

As P&C EMEA CX People Partner Leader, you will partner with the regional CX Leader and senior leadership team to evangelize the people and communities strategy, provide strategic consulting, drive adoption, ensure a positive employee experience, and ensure scale across communities. You will also lead the team of People Partners supporting the EMEA function.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Consulting & Trusted Advisor

Build and maintain strategic relationships and provide strategic consulting to senior leaders within the function and the communities within

Advocate for and provide input to the development of global People & Communities priorities based on business context, emerging insights and needs

Develop people plans which meet business needs whilst drawing on scaled solutions and offerings and incorporate global priorities

Co-create and track progress and success measures of people plans, championing adoption, linking dependences and driving business impact against key priorities to drive an inclusive future for all

Act as coach, trusted advisor and P&C champion to leaders to help drive adoption and delivery of people plans, build capability and evangelize strategic goals

Deep Understanding and Insights

Actively seek to capture, synthesize and refresh both external and internal insights about the business function and their ecosystem

Leverage insights and data to build deep understanding of business, market, and community trends and future focused needs

Drive informed people decision-making by linking data and analytics

Understand, utilize and represent P&C analytics and insights with community groups through business forums and success scorecards

Transformation Enablement and Change

Partner to define and drive transformative change to support people plans and strategic imperatives

Represent the community's voice to guide cross-community transformations

Represent Cisco P&C within communities and external ecosystem in relevant markets and for relevant topic areas

Advocacy and Portfolio Adoption

Help the business function adopt, use and implement relevant solutions across the P&C portfolio

Provide the "homebase" leadership support for all People & Communities team members within the extended team, leading events and activities to drive one P&C team connections and culture.

Our Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate must have recent deep experience of HR Partnering . Must have worked at scale and supporting large client groups - minimum headcount supported of 750. Ideally will have covered EMEA (+10 different countries within the region) Must have worked in a large corporations)

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

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