[Hiring] Global Policy Analyst @Weir

Role Description

You’ll play a key role in solving real-world challenges. You’ll apply your skills to deliver results that matter whether that’s through engineering, planning or customer support. You’ll work with purpose, learn every day and help shape a more sustainable future.

What you’ll do

• Policy Governance and Employment Policy:
  • Maintain and improve global employee lifecycle policies, ensuring they remain clear, current, compliant and appropriately controlled.
  • Coordinate with Legal, Employee Relations, policy owners and subject-matter experts to assess regulatory requirements, manage approvals, evaluate impacts and maintain accurate policy records.
• Harmonisation, Simplification and Continuous Improvement:
  • Analyse global and local policies to identify duplication, gaps, unnecessary variation and control weaknesses.
  • Develop and coordinate improvements to simplify and harmonise policies, manage justified local exceptions, mitigate risks and improve the employee and manager experience.
• Policy Lifecycle, Metadata and Automation Readiness:
  • Coordinate the full policy lifecycle from initiation through retirement, maintaining accurate inventories, approval trails, review schedules and metadata.
  • Standardise documentation and workflows to support automation, reporting, effective controls and reduced manual effort.
• Process Assurance, Controls and Risk:
  • Monitor compliance with policies, processes, service levels and controls, working with policy and process owners to identify gaps, risks and recurring issues.
  • Coordinate corrective actions, support audits and remediation, and ensure documentation reflects relevant ethics, privacy, security and responsible AI requirements.
• Process, Technology and Employee Experience:
  • Translate policy and control requirements into clear process, business, data and system requirements.
  • Partner with HR Operations, HR Technology and policy owners to ensure Workday and ServiceNow processes align with policy requirements, supporting testing, automation, controls and an improved user experience.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Advisory Support:
  • Partner with key stakeholders across HR, Employee Relations, Payroll, Legal, Risk and Technology, providing practical guidance on policies, processes, controls and governance.
  • Coordinate input, recommendations and working sessions, while supporting knowledge transfer and addressing capability gaps.
• Safety First:
  • Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world-class safety culture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience implementing policy or process frameworks.
• Relevant experience in HR policy, employment governance, HR operations, risk and controls, compliance, process assurance or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of employment-policy governance, the policy lifecycle, employment-law and regulatory requirements, internal controls, document management and exception governance.
• Analytical capability to identify duplication, variation and risk, structure policy metadata and management information, and translate complex requirements into practical improvements; familiarity with HR technology and workflow automation is advantageous.
• Exposure to global or regional stakeholder environments.
• Strong written English and the ability to produce clear documentation and stakeholder communications.

Nice to Haves

• Exposure to HR technology, workflow automation, employee lifecycle processes, Payroll or Time & Attendance.
• Familiarity with HR platforms such as Workday and ServiceNow.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Career development and learning support
• Access to global inclusion networks
• Regional and team-specific benefits
• Sharebuilder scheme
• Wellness support for you and your family
• Collaboration with global teams
• Study support