About This Role
This junior partnering role provides practical, timely, and locally informed People support to leaders, managers, and colleagues in Spain and Portugal. The People Partner Advisor delivers the local People Plan, supports core People processes, and helps ensure operational compliance with employment legislation, collective obligations, internal policy, and agreed governance. As part of the wider People Partnering Team, the role reports to the Associate Director, People Partnering, and receives day-to-day direction from the European Lead.
Responsibilities
- Deliver the agreed local People Plan for Spain and Portugal, translating regional priorities into clear actions, tracking progress, and escalating delivery risks
- Provide first-line People advice and guidance to managers and colleagues, supporting the fair and consistent application of policies and processes
- Manage local employee relations cases, including absence, conduct, capability, performance, and grievance matters; maintain accurate records and escalate complex, high-risk, or legally sensitive cases
- Act as a key day-to-day liaison point for the local trade union and support consultation, information-sharing, and collective employee relations activity in line with Spanish and Portuguese law, agreements, and governance
- Work with the European Lead and relevant leadership stakeholders to identify local people priorities, risks, workforce trends, and practical interventions
- Support operational compliance with Spanish employment legislation, collective bargaining requirements, data protection, internal policies, employment practices, and audit requirements
- Track local legislative, regulatory, and employment-practice developments and coordinate implementation of required changes with the European Lead, Legal, Employee Relations, and specialist teams
- Support colleague lifecycle activity including onboarding, probation, contract changes, absence, family leave, offboarding, and locally required documentation, working closely with People Operations and Payroll
- Coordinate local delivery of annual pay review, performance, talent, engagement, and development processes in line with regional and global timetables
- Partner with People Operations, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, Reward, Talent and Development, Employee Relations, and other enabling functions to resolve local issues and deliver a consistent colleague experience
- Maintain accurate People data, case records, compliance trackers, and local reporting, using insight to highlight emerging themes and inform action
- Contribute local insight and practical recommendations to regional People initiatives and continuous improvement activity, without holding accountability for regional strategy
Requirements
- Experience in an HR Advisor, People Advisor, junior People Partner, or HR Generalist role
