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HR Business Partner (French Speaking)
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🚀 HR Business Partner – French Speaking 🚀
📍 London | 3 days on-site / 2 days WFH (Hybrid)
🌍 Permanent Role
🛰️ Global Technology & Communications Organisation
🔧 The Role
A leading global organisation within the satellite communications sector is seeking an HR Business Partner to support key business areas across the UK and France.
This is a high-impact role combining strategic HR partnering with hands-on delivery. As the organisation evolves its operating model - moving transactional processes to shared services and AI-driven platforms - you will act as the dedicated, high-touch advisor for complex employee relations, change management, and strategic workforce challenges across a large client group.
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💡 Key Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, providing pragmatic and commercially focused solutions across a complex matrixed business
- Navigate complex local employee relations and manage relationships with French Works Councils and UK Employee Forums
- Support ongoing business evolution, organisational design, and change management initiatives
- Partner with leadership through transitions to centralised shared services and new HR operational models
- Collaborate with specialised global teams across Talent Acquisition, L&D, and Total Rewards
- Provide autonomous, high-touch advisory with minimal handholding required
🧠 Essential Experience
- 6–8+ years of HR experience, with a substantial track record at HR Business Partner level
- Proven experience partnering with client groups of 400+ heads within a complex, matrixed organisation
- Native or fluent French language skills (essential for local ER and Works Council oversight)
- Direct, proven experience managing French Works Councils and UK Employee Forums
- Strong background in change management, organisational design, and complex ER
- A conscientious, self-starting mindset with the confidence to operate independently
- Broad industry background welcome; experience navigating complex matrix environments is key
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⭐ Desirable Experience
- Experience supporting regional expansion or broader EMEA client groups
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