Senior HR Business Partner (GTM), EMEA

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Joining as our Sr HR Business Partner - EMEA, you’ll own and execute the company’s HRBP Playbook, partnering with leaders across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, and the broader EMEA region, often supporting them from a different location to your own. You’ll act as a thought partner for leaders and a trusted confidant to employees, coaching them on aligning teams to business objectives and enhancing team culture through learning and development, talent management, and performance management.

A key focus of this role is supporting Go-To-Market (GTM) teams across EMEA: Sales, Presales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Partnerships. You’ll bring strong employment law expertise across multiple EMEA jurisdictions and navigate complex employee relations situations with confidence. Experience working with works councils is advantageous and welcomed.

• Apply deep knowledge of employment law across multiple EMEA jurisdictions to give compliant, pragmatic guidance on complex employee relations issues.

• Engage and collaborate with works councils and employee representative bodies where applicable (preferred, not required).

• Partner with the DEI team as an advocate, coach, and facilitator, helping leaders build diverse and inclusive teams.

• Use data to identify people trends and translate them into recommendations, programs, and projects.

• Identify organisational gaps and deploy people strategies that help GTM and other teams scale effectively.

• Partner with the Talent Management COE to launch and run initiatives including performance reviews, succession planning, and org design.

• Collaborate with the wider HRBP team and People Ops functions (Talent Acquisition, Learning & Enablement, Compensation, DEI) to build and deploy programs across client groups.

• EMEA leaders treat you as a trusted advisor, you’re sought out for your expertise and perspective.

• You’ve built a strong, trusted presence across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, and the wider EMEA region, despite operating across geographies.

• Employment law situations are handled with confidence, pragmatism, and without surprises.

• Your GTM clients report a measurably better partnership experience as the company scales across EMEA.

• People and org decisions are grounded in data and reflect a clear point of view, not just process.

Please note that job responsibilities may change from time to time. Your team lead will be the most up-to-date source for job expectations.

• BA/ BSc degree in Human Resources or related field.

• 7+ years of experience as an HRBP, with a significant proportion of that time supporting EMEA-based organisations.

• Deep pan-EMEA HR experience, with strong understanding of the cultural, legal, and organisational landscape across the region.

• Strong, demonstrable employment law knowledge across multiple EMEA jurisdictions (UK, Ireland, France, and Germany required; additional markets a plus), with the ability to provide pragmatic, commercially sound guidance on complex employee relations matters.

• Experience working with works councils or other employee representative bodies across EMEA markets.

• Experience supporting GTM teams:
  Sales, Presales, Customer Success, Marketing, and/or Partnerships, ideally in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• Proven ability to build trust and deliver impact with leaders…