Job Description
HR ADVISOR | PEOPLE TEAM | PHILIPPINES
Travelport is a place of opportunity. It's our incredible team that makes our company great our people drive our winning culture.
What's Travelport
Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We're leading the change; we are the change.
We are on a mission to power the future of travel.
Come and be part of an organization that is committed to building a culture of inclusivity built upon a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities in which we operate.
What does a great HR Advisor, Philippines do
Using local employee relations skills and experience, the HR Advisor will help cultivate a positive work environment by providing consultation and guidance to managers and employees on a broad range of People matters.
Responsibilities include:
- Act as first-line HR advisor to our employees in the Philippines and their managers globally.
- Champion the Travelport culture and play a key role in keeping it vibrant and thriving in our Philippines office.
- Serve as the subject-matter expert on Philippine labour law, providing accurate and practical advice to managers and employees.
- Manage employee relations cases including but not limited to redundancy, retrenchment, misconduct, disciplinary and grievance cases whilst ensuring full compliance with due process requirements.
- Maintain robust documentation to mitigate illegal dismissal and compliance risk.
- Lead and shape HR process efficiencies, identifying opportunities for process improvement and optimization, prioritizing compliance and effectively collaborating with stakeholders and/or COE's.
- Ensure consistent and fair application of policies across the Philippines population.
- Identify gaps where local law or practice overrides global policy.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of labour law developments.
- Own documentation and record keeping for all Philippines HR matters.
- Ensure timely information is provided to People Services to ensure employee data is accurate.
- Coordinate workshops for managers in line with legislation.
- Support with all HR people needs in collaboration with the wider people teams as required.
- Provide HR support for other APAC locations as required.
Who we are looking for in this role:
- Experience of working in a HR Advisor role.
- Working knowledge of local employment law, statutory benefits and due processes.
- Previous experience managing employee relations cases.
- Confident advisor with the ability to challenge and influence managers.
- Clear, professional communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities.
- Employee/Customer focused approach.
Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you're likely to succeed if you:
- Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work.
- Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things.
- Take responsibility and own your work.
- Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what's been done before.
Discover why our teams love working here:
Competitive salary. This role is bonus-eligible, and bonus awards are performance based and governed by the applicable annual bonus plan terms. 18 days holiday that increases with years of service, hybrid working model, statutory sick pay, pension contribution and medical + dental insurance. We also offer new parent leave, life and accident insurance as well as an annual allowance for the purchase of medicines.
Interested We'd love for you to get in touch!
We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed. 
