Did you know KONE moves over one billion people every day. We employ over 60,000 driven professionals in over 60 countries worldwide joined together by a shared vision. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, it is our mission to improve the flow of urban life.

Why this role?

People & Communications Generalists support in delivering the people and communications people agenda within their responsibility area. They take part the actions to attract, engage, and develop employees and develop KONE as a great place to work together with other teams.

What will you be doing?

· Contributing to the delivery of a People and Communications Plan – Responsible for smaller local projects that contribute to the delivery of a People and Communications Plan. Localization of needed items and projects.

· Local People and Communications Operations – Responsible for local operations. Such activities can include e.g., time and attendance and payroll related preparations or collecting information, preparation and coordination of locally required documents.

· Annual processes – Supporting in preparing and delivering annual processes according to normal process cycle with close guidance from respective owners.

Are you the one?

· HR background either from Unit HR or HR Center of Expertise or HR Services roles

· Knowledge of related Manage People process area

· Project management skills

· Awareness of capabilities needed to work in multinational team in a global matrix organization

· Genuine interest to grow into expertise area

What do we offer?

· Career progression opportunities within a global organisation

· Full-time role enabling you establish a function and make it your own

· Total reward elements that engage and motivate our employees and help us make KONE a great place to work

· Comprehensive learning and development programs covering a wide range of professional skills

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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value each individual's contribution. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life. Read more on www.kone.com/career

The Head of Data is the business and technical owner for the end-to-end management and use of data in SPH Media, including the architecture, governance, collection, analysis, and strategic use of data to drive business value.

Responsibilities:

The scope of responsibilities includes the following:

• Assume ownership of the data teams, bringing together the data engineering, audience, and data governance team.
• Evolve our data strategy and evangelise the use of data for decision making to achieve key business outcomes.
• Help to develop and enforce guidelines for the collection, storage, management, documentation, quality, and protection of data.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of the company’s data lake and make use of existing data assets to generate business insights, visualise information, and solve problems.
• Identify opportunities to enrich data by supplementing or fusing it with data from partnerships or other external sources.
• Take a proactive approach to help business heads seek out new revenue opportunities (increase readership, subscriptions, advertisement and new services) through more effective and creative use of data.
• Drive experimental data modelling designs within the business. Run A/B tests in order to evaluate changes in the business’s products and services.
• Track business performance against data analysis models and monitor trends in key business KPIs, providing valuable insights to relevant departments for overall business performance improvement.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• More than 10 years of business experience and at least 5 years in senior management role
• Proven track record in data/big data management, leadership, leading data teams and projects. Experience in building data lakes and end-to-end deployment of data science models will be a plus.
• Strong background in business, mathematics, or data science and analytics is a must
• Background in media, marketing or consumer businesses will be an advantage
• Knowledge and use of BI best practices/methodologies, including reporting tools, querying tools, data analytics methodologies, and data visualisation.

Required Competencies

• Experience with SQL and reporting techniques with proficiency in data analytics tools (R and/or Python)
• Hands-on experience with BigData technologies such as Spark, ProtoBuf, DBT etc.
• Experience with AWS, and with tools such as AirFlow, Kafka, Docker & Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Team-builder, results-oriented, proactive and self-driven.
• Creative and strategic thinker, innovative problem-solving skills, and highly organised.
• Ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks, prioritise and meet tight deadlines, and demonstrate calmness in times of uncertainty and stress.