Senior HR Business Partner

Location: Lisbon, Portugal; hybrid working schedule.

Company

hirify.global is an international insurer specializing in luxury goods and property, as well as high-end professional insurance, with offices in nine European countries.

What you will do

• Partner with leaders across Operations, Finance, Claims and Underwriting to deliver people plans and provide practical HR advice.
• Coordinate workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, talent reviews, succession planning, performance, reward and engagement cycles.
• Manage HR projects and people workstreams end-to-end, including plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, budgets and outcomes.
• Deliver people workstreams for transformation, restructuring and operating-model initiatives, including employee-impact assessments, engagement plans and consultation activities.
• Manage Employee Relations cases, including grievances, disciplinary issues, absence and performance matters, escalating complex cases to HR leadership, specialists or Legal.
• Analyze people data, identify trends and implement improvements across the employee lifecycle in collaboration with specialist teams and the People Experience Hub.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of relevant, progressive HR experience, including substantial HR business partnering and HR generalist experience in a multinational or similarly complex organization.
• Experience advising and influencing senior stakeholders, constructively challenging proposals and managing competing priorities.
• Demonstrated end-to-end delivery of HR projects or people workstreams, including planning, risk and dependency management, stakeholder coordination and measurable outcomes.
• Comprehensive knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, performance, talent and succession, learning and development, reward and benefits, employee relations and exits.
• Experience delivering people workstreams within transformation and organizational change, such as restructuring, organizational redesign or operating-model implementation.
• Strong HR generalist expertise, complex Employee Relations case management experience and practical knowledge of Portuguese employment legislation.
• Business and commercial awareness, strong analytical capability and experience presenting evidence-based recommendations to senior audiences.
• Ability to work independently within delegated authority and collaborate across functions, countries and matrix reporting structures.
• Excellent communication, influencing, facilitation and coaching skills; advanced written and spoken English is essential.
• Degree in Human Resources, Management, Law or a related discipline, or equivalent professional qualification and experience.
• High standards of integrity, discretion and professional judgment, including responsible handling of confidential information.

Nice to have

• Spanish language skills.
• Recognized project management or change management qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment based in the Lisbon office.
• 35-hour workweek and hybrid working schedule.
• International and inclusive environment with approximately 500 professionals representing 29 nationalities in Lisbon.
• Collaboration with HR leadership, specialist teams and the People Experience Hub.