Base Location: Madrid - You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office. Salary : Competitive + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family. Working Pattern: Fixed Term Contract | Full Time The role We're looking for an experienced HR Manager to join SSE's Southern Europe business on a fixed-termbasis. Reporting to and partnering closely with the HR Business Partner supporting the International BusinessDevelopment BU, you'll work alongside senior leaders to align people priorities with business objectives,enabling growth, transformation, and high performance across our operations in Southern Europe. This is an exciting opportunity to operate in a dynamic, international environment, providing bothstrategic and operational HR support across multiple European jurisdictions while helping to foster aperformance-driven, inclusive, safe, and sustainable workplace culture. You will Support the delivery of the annual people plan in partnership with specialist HR teams, includingLearning, Recruitment and Reward, while contributing to long-term workforce strategies aligned tobusiness growth ambitions. Lead and advise on a broad range of employee relations matters, including collective bargaining,consultation processes, organisational change, and the implementation of people policies andframeworks across multiple European countries. Provide trusted coaching and guidance to business leaders across the employee lifecycle,including workforce planning, recruitment, reward, performance management, employee engagement,organisational design and talent development. Partner with senior leadership teams to foster a high-performing, inclusive and collaborativeculture, embedding SSE's Blueprint, strategic Drivers and Behaviours to support sustainable businesssuccess across Southern Europe. Oversee HR operations across Southern Europe, ensuring effective payroll governance, benefitsadministration, vendor management and compliance with local employment legislation,
collectiveagreements and regulatory requirements. You have Strong HR generalist experience gained within a complex, international environment, with acommercial, pragmatic approach to problem solving and managing competing priorities. Experience working with employee representative bodies, trade unions, works councils or similarforums, ideally across Spain, France, Italy or other European countries. Proven ability to build credible relationships, influence stakeholders at all levels and providetrusted advice to senior leadership teams. Experience managing HR operations across multiple jurisdictions, including payroll oversight,benefits administration, compliance activities and employee relations matters. Strong judgement, discretion and communication skills, with a solid understanding of Europeanemployment legislation and employee relations practices;
additional European language skills wouldbe advantageous. About SSE SSE's purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow.We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businessesneeded in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plansees us investing £33bn incritical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030. Over 14,500 brilliant people work together to power change at SSE. Our Human Resources teams help makesure they're getting and giving their best. They design the people strategies that make SSE a greatplace to work. And they empower our teams to meet the demands of our business today, and tomorrow. Work with an equal opportunity employer SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experiencewith us is positive. Please contact kimberlee.Anderson@ to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds canthrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications fromthose who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry. #J-18808-Ljbffr
📌 Hr Manager (Southern Europe) (Madrid)
🏢 SSE
📍 Madrid