Global Assistant HRBP

Life tastes better with ice cream

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.
 
We create iconic ice cream brands that are part of everyday life, bringing moments of joy to millions of people around the world. Everybody loves ice cream. And as the world’s biggest pure‑play ice cream company, we have the scale and ambition to make a real difference. 

What truly sets us apart is how we work. 

We move fast and keep things simple. We turn ideas into action, trust people to take ownership, and work as one team to win together with integrity. Our culture is high‑performance, collaborative and focused on getting things done. 

We’re curious and ready for what’s next. We embrace digital, use data to make better decisions, and keep learning, including how AI can help us work smarter and serve consumers better.  

The role

The Global Assistant HR Business Partner role is positioned within the Central HR team, operationally supporting the HR teams globally whilst (partially) business partnering the Central HR function. This role plays a key role in delivering operational HR support to the total HR function and ensuring HR delivery is fully aligned to business goals in that area of business, building successful partnerships and collaboration with our support teams, partnering with business leaders and HR Expertise & Innovation teams and Employee Experience Teams to shape the people, culture, learning and engagement strategies, working closely with the HR Strategy Director and HR Business Partners to ensure optimal hire-to-retire People Experience. 

What you'll be responsible for

The Global Assistant HR Business Partner ensures the execution of HR activities being aligned with global direction and strategy.  

HR Operations

• Responsible for hire-to-retire operational support to Employees and Line Managers. 
• Liaise with local Payroll and local Pension & Benefits teams to swiftly resolve employee salary queries.
• Liaise with local Talent Partners to ensure adequate hiring of open positions throughout the total HR Function.
• Manage complex sick leave cases, liaising with third parties to ensure durable return to work.
• Manage complex legal cases, liaising with third parties.
• Swiftly and diligently process transactions within the Employee System of Record (Workday) for the total HR Function.
• Liaise with our Global Mobility partner for Global Mobility related subjects.
• Provide solicited and unsolicited advice to Line Managers within the Central HR Team.
• Create and communicate reporting for HR purposes.
• Liaise with local and global IT teams to ensure optimal People Experience.
• Perform activities to balance Employee Benefits whilst owning responsibility over a few local benefits.
• Advice on standing HR policies and ways of working, identify potential changes and implement changes to drive organizational performance.
   

Talent and Career Management  

• Provide input into the talent management strategy and maintain the talent pipeline for the total HR Function.   

• Activate and execute the performance management cycle in line with the global timelines.  

• Support line managers executing reward guidelines as required.  

• Execution of talent and career management frameworks as required.  

• Use Leadership and Talent Development Tools to drive organization performance.
• Perform in Data Analystics activities to ensure a 100% Workday data accuracy. 
   

Organisation Effectiveness & Transformation 

• Global budget- and position management for the total HR Function.
• Support implementation of workforce models, structural changes and new ways of working.
• Ensure alignment between global design and global execution.
• Lead change management support for the rollout of new technologies in HR, ensuring adoption in the HR population through clear communication, readiness planning, training and local deployment support; this includes key enablers such as (Workday) system access from 1 September 2026.

We're looking for someone who

• Educational background in Human Resources, Business Administration or Organizational Psychology.
• Experience in HR, ideally with some experience in business partnering.  
• Passion for business with strong customer focus.  
• Good knowledge of key HR processes, roles and responsibilities.   
• Comfortable with HR systems (Workday, PowerBI, Concur, NS Go, COUPA etc) and managing, analysing HR data and building insights and a point of view from that data.  
• Excellent analytical and communication skills with ability to respond to multiple changes and working to influence change remotely.  
• Experience of working across teams in a global environment – both F2F and virtually.  
• Ability and drive to work independently.  
• Proven track record on adaptability, agility and passion for continuous improvement/learning.
• Strong Excel and reporting skills are a must for this role.

What you'll get

Alongside meaningful work and strong development, we offer a reward package that typically includes

• Market-competitive pay and performance related rewards
• Flexible ways of working
• Support for health, wellbeing and life outside of work
• Time off to rest and recharge
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

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Why join us?

This is a place for people who are passionate about ice cream and are growth obsessed - both for the business and for themselves. People who act like an owner and drive our business end-to-end. People who are driven by success to deliver more than we ever thought we could! 

You’ll thrive here if you value an inclusive culture, with low ego and hierarchy - and if you’re excited to continuously learn and challenge how we work, using digital, data, and new thinking to push us forward.

- Roles with real accountability and visible impact
- Free to move fast, experiment and challenge how things are done
- Continuous learning and development as the business grows
- Reward linked to performance and contribution.

Your career here is shaped by what you deliver, as you work across functions and markets and grow with the business.

Ready to build the future of Ice Cream?

If this sounds like the place where you'd thrive, we'd love to hear from you. Apply online and share your CV. We'll review your application and be in touch with the next steps.

If you are an individual with a disability and require assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know.

Additional information

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.