Junior HR Business Partner (offline)

As Junior HR Business Partner you help to provide an implementation of HR services across the entire employee lifecycle and supporting global and local operations in different HR areas. You will be closely working with our teams dedicated to delivering software development and testing services with the primary time investment and focusing on engineering teams' leaders.

As a member of the HR team, you will carry out responsibilities in the following functional areas: talent development, performance evaluations, employee retention and tenure, survey, and data analysis. May carry out additional responsibilities to include employee development initiatives and trainings.

Summary of major duties:

Onboarding/Offboarding

∙Take ownership over employee onboarding and offboarding process
∙ Make sure all employee data is put into documentation and systems used by the HR BP team (Allheadcount, Employee Journey map, etc.)
∙ Schedule and conduct HR BP Introduction meeting to get acquainted with the employees and discuss what areas you will be working on together.
∙ Create OKR/PDP form for the employee and schedule 121 meetings with his manager.
∙ Run exit interviews, do the best to make sure employees leave Forte with a positive impression about working together, will likely recommend the company on the market, and are welcome back again

Probation periods

∙ Control probation period milestones dates (mid-probation, end-probation), set up calendar events (mid-probation and end-probation period meetings)
∙ Plan and organize a formal review conversation (confirm dates with the manager and employee, make sure Probation period feedback form and PDP/OKR forms are completed before the conversation
∙ Conduct a formal review meeting with an employee and a manager, facilitate discussion during the meeting
∙ Keep full and clear records and documentation of the meeting, send approval email on successful completion of the probation period and other important notes
∙ Support English assessment procedure if necessary

Performance evaluation

∙ Schedule and organize assessments, make sure assessments forms are up to date and Line Manager understands performance evaluation process and workflow
∙ Participate in PE/Assessment meetings, facilitate discussions, keep full and clear records and documentation with important notes and results
∙ Results processing: negotiate salary expectations with employees, provide cost-effective, fact-based recommendation on seniority and salary increase to budget owners
∙ Organize English assessment to define progress and current level of English prior to performance evaluation
∙ Make sure future business and self-development goals are discussed, approved, and set in PDP/OKR forms

Talent Development

∙ Make sure Forte has the Talent Development process (PDP/OKR) up and running across the delivery teams
∙ Support Line Managers in kicking-off and maintaining the Talent Development process (PDP/OKR)
∙ Support Line Managers in building trustful relations with their "lines" (121 meetings)
∙ Review PDP/OKR forms to make sure the objectives are set SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant for the business, time-bound)

Employee Retention and Tenure

∙ Support HR BP team is making sure Forte has the lowest possible regretted attrition and the longest possible tenure of employees across delivery teams (identify and escalate risks, prepare mitigation plans, analyze reasons/motivating factors and provide action plans)
∙ Make sure Forte pays salary rates that are not above the market averages in the location, across delivery teams, while keeping the regretted attrition below the target
∙ Regular catch-up with Line Managers to receive cumulative updates on their "linees" issues, important news, achievements, team change requests, career change requests, seniority change requests, retention risks, etc.
∙ Retaining best talent by effectively managing ad-hoc retention issues and providing clear retain/release actions recommendation (team change commitment, career plan/education, compensation, or conflict resolution)
∙ Help resource managers to keep billable utilization at the highest possible level by managing horizontal career moves for the employees (e.g. QA to SDET or BA to PO etc.), make sure it matches Forte Group business needs and matches projected clients’ demand
∙ Maintain a list of successors to leadership roles across delivery teams in the location and list of hi-potential (HiPos) employees
∙ Participate in the salary negotiation process with existing employees during both scheduled and ad-hoc retention incidents; provide cost-effective and fact-based recommendations on seniority/salary increase to budget owners

Survey and Data Analysis

∙ Participate in design and creation of company surveys across delivery teams (satisfaction, engagement, client surveys)
∙ Run regular satisfaction and engagement surveys according to the agreed schedule
∙ Analyze data (individual/team/department/company analytics) and forecasted risks, create reports, and provide data-driven advisory on strategic improvements to senior management

Tools, Frameworks and Processes

∙ Maintain and constantly update correct information in TTS (internal tools) re employee seniority level, job title, line manager
∙ Maintain and constantly update internal salary statistics for all roles in delivery, provide this information to the senior management

Minimum knowledge skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:

Specific Knowledge

∙ Basic understanding of the IT industry.
∙ Experience in people relations and people management.

Skills, abilities, and competencies

∙ Upper-Intermediate level of English, understanding of Russian language.
∙Business savvy with strong communication and interpersonal skills
∙ G-suite, HRIS and/or ATS is a plus
∙Ability to build a network of relationships within the organization
∙ Problem-solving and decision-making skills
∙The initiative, attentive, responsible, organized, and flexible

Minimum education and experience requirements:

Education

∙ Bachelor or Master’s degree (might be in process of obtaining a degree), HR certification is a plus, corporate trainings on company structure and processes.
∙ Previous experience in a corporate environment in areas related to HR would be a plus.

We offer:

∙ Friendly team and enjoyable working environment where ideas are welcomed
∙ Possibility for career growth
∙ Social guarantees, medical & family care programs
∙ Internal free English courses
∙ Comfortable and fully equipped workplace, ability to work remotely
∙ Official employment

About Forte Group

About us:
Forte Group is a full-service custom software delivery partner with a global team of experts who bring the best technology talent and value-driven practices to achieve clients’ mission in accelerating their business.

We are a network of innovators, product leaders, engineers, and professionals spanning three continents with global offices.

Back when Forte was founded in 2000, we were a small group of engineers and technologists focused on QA. Today, Forte has more than 900+ employees working out of eleven offices in the United States, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Ukraine, Poland, etc.

Over the years, we’ve cooperated with more than 350 clients globally, and we’ve developed great software that’s been used by more than nine million people ‒ that’s equivalent to the population of London or even Switzerland!

Our clients:
DocuSign, Relativity, Sphera, Tinder, Insureon, GPShopper, Follett, SwiftIQ, Lawyer Exchange, & more

What we do: Driven to succeed

“We have been developing IT solutions for 20 years. Not as a singled out pianist, violinist, and drummer, but as an orchestra.
Steve Kreynin, Founder and CEO at Forte Group

The roadmap of our solutions consists of software engineering, product management, quality assurance & testing, staff augmentation and ecommerce strategy.

We help mid-market and large enterprises extend the capabilities of their existing software products and systems, build products from scratch, and augment software engineering teams to accelerate and enhance delivery.

Our team consists of like-minded professionals ready for a tech challenge. You name it, we’ve probably done it. Our portfolio features projects for clients in the banking, financial services, healthcare, IoT, life sciences, logistics, manufacturing, supply chain, media and entertainment, and retail industries. To add value and achieve solution scalability, we use Agile methodologies to deliver better software to market faster.

Our technology focus:
.NET, Java, JavaScript (React.js, Node.js), Oracle, Hybris, Salesforce, PHP, QA/QC, SDET, Mobile development, and Talent management.

What’s in it for you:
- Experience working with multicultural distributed teams
- Individual approach for project selection (our resource managers are rushing to help)
- Performance reviews twice a year
- Individual and group sessions with a psychologist
- Flexibility. Work from home or the office in an autonomous working environment.
- Opportunities for career development and professional growth through our learning and development department
- Friendly and enjoyable working environment with a fully equipped workplace
- Medical and family care programs, gifts to children. Fully paid five sick days yearly

Unlock your career’s potential and join us on our quest to deliver value through software.

Our mission. Bring together the best technology talent and practices to deliver on our clients’ mission.
Our Values

We care about our people.
We are committed to the growth of our employees, teams, and clients.
We create a network of individual support, team trust, and transparency for everyone in and outside the company. This environment allows creativity to flow and fosters the long-term growth of our people and nurturing of our customers.
We value curiosity and resourcefulness.
The quest for self-improvement is a life-long pursuit — but a worthy one.
We endeavor to be extraordinary, curious, resourceful, and continually progress. By upgrading our team, we boost everything around us.
We value and deliver quality at scale.
We’re adaptive to new perspectives, technologies, ideas, and challenges — both as technology experts and as people. We aim to bring positive and qualitative change through transformative software.

Company website:
https://fortegrp.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/forte-group/