Global HR Lead/local HR Lead Portugal (100%)

**Introduction**:
HeiQ combines the flexibility and dynamism of a young and customer-oriented company with the professionalism of an international, UK stock market listed player. In order to continue our growth story, we are looking for an experienced

**Global **HR **Lead**/Local HR Lead Portugal** (100%).**

In this newly created role, you are on a mission to build world-class people operations for HeiQ and will report directly to the CFO.

**Your responsibilities**:
Global Responsibilities
- Managing the regional HR administrators
- Designing and owning HR strategy for the global group
- Developing and implementing global HR policies and ensuring policies are up to date
- Owning and continuously improving global People Operations processes
- Compiling reports on employee data as needed as well as owning the global personnel cost budget
- Organizing and driving annual activities such as the performance or compensation review process, well-being, remuneration, culture and engagement, and other HR related work streams
- Owning the global recruitment process
- Identifying areas for improvement and recommending appropriate solutions to address the needs of a growing organization
- Acting as HR SME on projects such as M&A and restructuring

Local Responsibilities (Portugal)
- Managing all HR administration matters in Portugal, including payroll & benefits management
- Maintaining employee files & other employee related documentation in our HR management system to ensure records are up to date and compliant
- Acting as the point of contact for our employees on questions linked to HR services
- Owning the recruitment processes for open vacancies in Portugal, creating work contracts, and ensuring the smooth onboarding of new employees

**You are**:

- Within 7 to 10 years of your career.
- A relentless go-getter
- A learner, not a knower
- Very structured and diligent yet pragmatic and result-driven
- An authentic team player, demanding of yourself and leading by example
- With great interpersonal and communication skills
- Fully professionally proficient in English (mandatory for all employees working at HeiQ - additional languages are advantageous)

**You bring**:

- A Bachelor or Master in Business Administration, Psychology, or equivalent.
- Experience owning all HR matters in an international company
- Experience acting as a business partner and collaborating with business teams spread across multiple geographies
- Knowledge and experience with Portuguese employment and labor laws.
- Experience working in a fast-growing startup or scale-up
- A winning attitude, sense of ownership, and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success

**We offer**:

- A chance to step up, take responsibility, and make a difference in shaping HeiQ’s global growth story.
- Hard work, a breath-takingly high pace, and a direct communication style.
- An extraordinary team and a diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture.
- Performance-based employment conditions.
- The possibility to split your work between one of our offices and home-office.

**Interested?**:
**About us**:
HeiQ is a three-in-one company: Scientific research, Specialty materials manufacturing and Consumer ingredient branding, all for improving the lives of billions of people by adding functionalities to all kinds of materials. HeiQ is a leader in têxtile innovation creating some of the most effective, durable and high-performance têxtile technologies in the market today.
- Founded in 2005 during a hike in the Swiss Alps
- Listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (LSE:HEIQ) since 2020
- Founders: Carlo Centonze & Dr. Murray Height
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) spin-off
- More than 200 professionals of 30 nationalities in 13 countries on 5 continents
- Boundless academic research network and internal development specialists
- Today, PhD’s around the world are working on HeiQ projects
- Swiss headquarters with subsidiaries in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, and USA
- 35,000 tonnes per year manufacturing capacity in its sites in Switzerland, Australia & USA