Senior HR Business Partner – Southwest Europe region

Role Purpose

The Senior HR Business Partner (Sr HRBP) acts as a strategic advisor to business leaders across France and Iberia Markets and Regional Functions. The role focuses on aligning people’s strategy with business priorities, driving organizational performance, and enabling transformation, while ensuring strong collaboration with wider P&O Teams and other colleagues across the region (France, Italy, Iberia, Belgium and the NL).

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, understanding business challenges and translating them into HR priorities and action plans
• Coach, challenge, and support managers in building teams that drive a more performance driven culture, 
• Contribute to the development and execution of the regional P&O Business plans and priorities  

 Workforce & Talent Management

• Lead strategic workforce planning (FTE management, skills, capabilities) aligned with business needs
• Drive talent management processes: succession planning, people reviews, leadership pipelines and talent programs
• Oversee employee development, learning, and engagement initiatives

Transformation, Change Management, & DEI

• Support organizational design and transformation projects
• Enable leaders to navigate change and transformation effectively
• Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion across the region

Employee Relations & Risk Management (in collaboration with Sr HRBP Employee relations)

• Partner closely with the Sr HRBP Employee Relations & Social Dialogue for France
• Provide guidance to managers on complex employee relations cases
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws across the regions
• Contribute to proactive risk management and mitigation of potential disputes

Stakeholder & Cross-functional Collaboration

• Build strong relationships across a multicultural and matrix organization
• Act as interface with P&O Service s& Payroll, Recruitment, and Centers of Excellences to ensure alignment and deliver effectively on P&O Business plans and priorities
• Collaborating with managers and Finance on employee costs and FTE management  

Employee Lifecycle & Operational Excellence

• Support key HR processes and projects: Pay transparency, performance reviews, compensation cycles, employees engagement surveys,
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity and adherence to HR systems and processes (e.g., Workday)

Key Success Factors

• Strong business acumen and ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Ability to operate in a complex, international matrix environment
• Balance between strategic thinking and operational execution
• Strong collaboration with wider P&O teams

Qualifications & Experience

• Master’s degree in HR, Business, Economics, Psychology, or related field
• Significant experience (+8-10 years) in HR Business Partner roles within an international environment
• Strong knowledge of French labor law; familiarity with Iberian labor frameworks is a plus
• Proven experience in change management, talent management, and organizational development

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic thinking & business partnering
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Change management and project management skills
• Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity and decision making
• Fast Learner and ability to adapt
• Fluent in French and English, Spanish highly desirable
• High level of integrity, discretion, and resilience

Key Interfaces

• Business Leaders / people managers
• HR Director & HRBP team, and Sr HRBP Employee Relations & Social Dialogue
• P&O Services and Payroll, Recruitment and P&O Centre of Excellences
• Finance,
• External partners

About VELUX  

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the roof window category, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.  

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we can create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations. With 20 production companies in 12 countries and sales companies in 37 countries, our products are widely available. We employ around 12,000 people, and our company is headquartered in Denmark. Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world. 

Equal Opportunity Employer  

At VELUX, we believe in fostering a diverse workplace for everyone to thrive, develop, and perform at their best, and where you feel welcome, respected, and valued. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all - whether you are applying for a role or already a part of VELUX. That means we recruit, hire, train, and promote people based on their skills and potential without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, neurodiversity, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.   

 We value diversity and strive to ensure that our employment decisions are fair and inclusive, focusing only on what truly matters: your qualifications and how you can contribute to our shared mission and success.