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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in Human Resources and People & Organization strategies, with a strong focus on organizational effectiveness, talent management, and compliance with Portuguese labor law. Proven ability to lead change management initiatives and support diverse, multicultural teams in a global environment.
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Human Resources Business Partner ExperiencePortuguese Labor Law ExpertiseOrganizational Change ManagementFluency in Spanish, Portuguese, and EnglishLeadership Development and Coaching
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Hard Skills
Organizational EffectivenessTalent ManagementPerformance ManagementSuccession PlanningWorkforce PlanningEmployee RelationsCompensation PlanningChange ManagementJob EvaluationCultural Transformation
Soft Skills
CoachingStakeholder AlignmentCommunicationAccountabilityFeedback Facilitation
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Human ResourcesMaster's Degree in HR or Labor Relations
Industry Keywords
P&O PartnerGCC EnvironmentsEmployee ExperienceDiversity and InclusionEmployer Branding
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Act as the primary P&O partner for Portugal and GCC leadership teams
- Translate business priorities into people and organizational strategies
- Coach and challenge leaders on organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, talent, and culture
- Support business transformation, growth initiatives, organizational changes, workforce planning, and capability building
- Drive talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, and talent programs
- Facilitate identification of critical talent and key successors
- Partner with managers on career development, retention, talent mobility, and cross-functional opportunities
- Lead the annual performance management cycle
- Coach leaders on objective setting, performance differentiation, feedback, and development planning
- Support high and low performance cases and foster accountability, continuous feedback, and recognition
- Advise leaders on organizational structures, role design, workforce optimization, and job evaluation
- Lead implementation of reorganizations, restructurings, and business transformations
- Ensure effective change management, stakeholder alignment, and communication plans
- Advise on employee relations, disciplinary cases, investigations, grievances, and performance-related actions
- Serve as the sole P&O owner for Portugal compliance
- Manage complex employee cases with Legal and P&O Centers of Excellence
- Support interactions with employee representative bodies and proactively mitigate risk
- Partner with Talent Acquisition on recruitment strategies for Portugal and GCC
- Support employer branding, local EVP activities, critical hiring, onboarding, and integration
- Support annual compensation planning, salary reviews, bonus processes, recognition, job evaluation, and local benefits
- Advise leaders on market competitiveness, internal equity, and pay transparency
- Partner with Rewards on pay equity reviews and compensation-related requests
- Drive engagement initiatives and action plans based on employee feedback
- Champion Sandoz culture, values, inclusion, diversity, wellbeing, and employee experience
- Support leaders in culture transformation and organizational health initiatives
- Partner with GCC functional leaders supporting international and cross-border teams
- Advise managers on leading diverse, multicultural teams
- Support growth and capability strategies for the Madrid GCC and collaborate with global stakeholders
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Law, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field
- 5+ years of progressive HR / P&O Business Partner experience
- Experience supporting senior leaders and leadership teams
- Strong expertise in Portuguese labor law
- Experience managing organizational change and restructuring projects
- Experience in international and matrix organizations
- Fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, and English
- Master's degree in HR, Labor Relations, or Business is preferred
- Experience supporting shared service centers, capability centers, or GCC environments is highly preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Agile and collegiate environment
- Impactful careers
- Diversity of thought welcomed
- Personal growth supported
- Inclusive work environment
- Diverse teams
- Approximately 20% travel