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Job Description
The HR Generalist supports the EMEA region by providing HR guidance, managing employee relations, benefits, and HR processes, and contributing to the development of HR policies and initiatives in a global, distributed work environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide HR guidance to team members and managers on performance and behavior expectations
- Partner with line managers to advise on employee relations and global policies
- Process employee changes, onboarding, and departures accurately and promptly
- Manage and develop benefit programs across EMEA locations
- Liaise with finance on payroll, projects, and inquiries
- Support full HR lifecycle including onboarding, benefits administration, and offboarding
- Automate and streamline administrative HR tasks through critical thinking
- Lead and develop the HR system, acting as a system expert and advocate
- Generate data-driven reports to inform HR initiatives
- Lead and participate in HR projects with measurable impact
- Support diversity and inclusion initiatives through internal resource groups
- Create, update, and maintain global HR policies with local application
- Ensure consistent application of HR policies and procedures
Requirements
- Provide HR guidance to team members and managers, setting high expectations of behaviour and performance.
- Partner with line managers to provide employee relations advice on global policies and procedures.
- Ensure accuracy and timeliness in processing employee changes, joiners and leavers.
- Manage and drive benefit programs spanning EMEA locations including UK, Ireland, France, Germany, and Spain.
- Liaise with the finance team on monthly payroll, projects, and enquiries.
- Support the full life-cycle of HR including onboarding, benefit administration, and departure processes.
- Apply critical thinking to automate and reduce administrative tasks.
- Take a lead role in the management, continued development, and integration of the HR system, acting as a system expert and advocate for the global HR team.
- Produce data-driven reports to inform and influence HR initiatives.
- Lead and participate in projects to demonstrate the impact of HR work.
- Support internal resource groups to drive initiatives such as diversity and inclusion.
- Create, update, and maintain corporate policies with a global perspective and local application.
- Ensure consistency in the application of HR policies and procedures.
- Hold an exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
- Possess relevant professional qualification and certifications in HR.
- Have excellent practical insights into German, UK, and/or French HR practices and employment laws, with knowledge of other EMEA laws and practices being beneficial.
- Be self-directed, organized, and a problem solver with the ability to prioritize and meet goals and deadlines.
- Demonstrate the ability to exercise discretion, sound judgment, tact, and diplomacy in all communications.
- Have a fearless and principled approach to professional interactions at every level of the business, with a commitment to confidentiality of sensitive information.
- Be willing and able to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events, including at least one trip of two full working weeks.
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus
Additional benefits reflecting company values and local needs
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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