HR Business Partner Portugal

The P&O Business Partner enables business performance by shaping and executing the people agenda for Portugal and the Global Competency Center (GCC). The role acts as a trusted advisor to business leaders, translating business strategy into people solutions, driving organizational effectiveness, talent outcomes, employee engagement, and a high-performance culture. The position ensures a consistent employee experience across the full employee lifecycle while providing expert guidance on local labor law, employee relations, talent management, organizational design, rewards, and change management.

Your Key Responsibilities: Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

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, ensuring ongoing compliance with Portuguese labor legislation, regulatory requirements, and company policies. Manage complex employee cases with Legal and P&O Centers of Excellence. Support interactions with employee representative bodies where applicable 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.

Essential Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Law, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field.

Master's degree in HR, Labor Relations, or Business is preferred.

• 5+ years of progressive HR / P&O Business Partner experience.
• Experience supporting senior leaders and leadership teams.
• Strong expertise in Portuguese labor law is required.
• Experience managing organizational change and restructuring projects.
• Experience in international and matrix organizations.
• Experience supporting shared service centers, capability centers, or GCC environments is highly preferred.

Fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, and English is required.

The role may be based in Lisbon or Madrid and requires approximately 20% travel.

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