Senior Associate, Human Resources

Senior Associate, HR

Organizational Summary:  Lindsay Corporation is a global company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, focused on providing irrigation and infrastructure solutions to meet the needs of a growing population. As one of the world’s leading providers of irrigation and water management, its Zimmatic systems are operating in more than 90 countries. Since 1955, Lindsay Corporation has been at the forefront of research and development of products and services designed to meet the needs of a constantly evolving world. 

Functions: The Senior Associate, HR is responsible for providing comprehensive support for daily HR operations at Lindsay Sulama. This role reports to the Director of Human Resources, EMEA & APAC. 

Responsibilities are, but not limited to: 

1-HR Operations

• Maintain and update employee files and records ensuring data accuracy and confidentiality.
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Operating social security processes, administrative affairs as needed.
• Assist in audits and reporting related to HR operations.
• Develop and update HR policies, handbooks, and procedures as needed.

2-Payroll & Benefits

• Assist in processing payroll, ensuring accuracy and timeliness with the 3rd parties.
• Operate employee benefits (health, life etc.) enrollment, renewal processes, administration, and issue resolution.
• Coordinate with finance and external payroll providers for payroll execution.

3-HR Systems & Process

• Manage and optimize HRIS and other HR tools.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement in HR operations and recommend solutions.
• Support HR analytics by maintaining HR dashboards and generating reports.

4-Employee Relations

• Respond to employee inquiries related to HR policies, payroll, benefits, and leave management.
• Support union relations, onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring compliance and a smooth transition.
• Provide guidance on HR procedures and best practices to employees and managers.

5-Data Protection

Serve as the KVKK Responsible Officer, enroll to the related registry and ensuring compliance with KVKK regulations and overseeing data protection activities.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related fields,
• 2 years of working experience in HR
• Communication skills:  Excellent communication skills are essential in order to explain and justify complex problems.
• Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Interview: Managing efficient interview process, organizing and following up the candidate's status.
• Information Ordering & Presentation: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of
• General knowledge of principles and procedures for recruitment, training, compensation & benefits, labor relations, and negotiation.
• Time tracking systems knowledge,
• Success Factors,
• Union relations,
• MS Office, Visio

Preferred Requirements:

• Has a good understanding of a production environment and its requirements,
• Problem-solving – able to handle complex problems as they arise,
• Self-motivation,
• Effective interpersonal, communication and presentation skills,
• Willing to accept feedback,
• The ability to structure tasks, set priorities, and manage resources efficiently towards desired HR objectives.