En nous appuyant sur un solide héritage de près de 150 ans, nous ouvrons la voie pour réimaginer et améliorer la vie au quotidien. Aujourd'hui et pour les générations à venir. Grâce à des marques et des technologies innovantes et durables, et grâce à nos équipes dans le monde entier. Henkel détient des positions de leader dans les activités industrielles et grand public : Notre portefeuille comprend des produits de soins capillaires, des cosmétiques, des lessives, des adoucissant ainsi que des adhésifs, des produits d'étanchéité et des revêtements fonctionnels renommés.
Labor Relations Manager
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About this Position
Job Purpose: The Iberia Labor Relations Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing labor relations strategies and frameworks across local legal entities. This includes ensuring compliance with labor laws, fostering positive and constructive relationships with unions and employee representatives, and managing employee relations matters in a fair and legally manner. In addition to labor relations responsibilities, the role also oversees the Iberia payroll operations and leads a team of HR professionals, ensuring operational excellence, legal compliance, and high-quality service delivery in employee administration and payroll activities.
What you´ll do
- Lead and manage labor relations strategy at local levels, in alignment with corporate standards and local legal frameworks.
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation, labor agreements, and internal HR policies.
- Act as a strategic partner for union negotiations and employee representation, leading collective bargaining efforts.
- Identify potential labor relations risks, proposing and implementing proactive mitigation strategies.
- Resolve employee disputes and conflicts, ensuring fair and timely outcomes.
- Serve as the company’s representative in labor inspections, audits, and negotiations.
- Provide expert advice and training on labor law, disciplinary procedures, union interactions, and employee rights.
- Develop and maintain labor relations documentation, including agreements, grievances, and negotiation records.
- Monitor and implement changes to employment and labor law, ensuring organizational alignment.
- Collaborate with HRBP’s and Legal teams to ensure integrated and consistent approaches to people management.
- Oversee payroll operations, ensuring accurate and timely salary processing, tax compliance, and benefit administration in accordance with local laws and internal policies.
- Ensure data integrity and compliance in all personnel administration processes.
- Lead and develop a team of payroll and HR operations professionals, fostering a high-performance and service-oriented culture.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives related to payroll, HR processes, and employee experience.
What makes you a good fit
- 7–10 years of HR experience in companies of similar size, including production environments, with strong expertise in labor law, employee relations, and collective bargaining.
- Experience in payroll management or HR operations, as well as GDPR/HR compliance.
- Advanced English and fluent Spanish.
- Proven team leadership experience, people development, and internal consulting capabilities.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Project and process management expertise, including process optimization, governance, and HR policy implementation.
- Strategic and analytical thinking, high integrity, adaptability, and strong problem-solving skills.
Some perks of joining Henkel
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Meal Allowance for each worked day
- Health insurance paid the employee with a tax exemption
- Well-being programme
- Discounts on company products
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.
JOB ID: 25088943
Job Locations: Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona
Contact information for application-related questions: recruitment.iberia@henkel.com
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FAQ
Plusieurs postes m'intéressent. Puis-je déposer plusieurs candidatures simultanément ?
Oui – il vous suffit de compléter votre profil en ligne. Vous pourrez ensuite postuler pour plusieurs postes.
L'offre est en anglais, dois-je postuler en anglais ?
Oui, s'il vous plaît. Henkel étant un groupe international, vous travaillerez avec des collègues issus du monde entier. L'anglais est la langue officielle de notre groupe. En règle générale, il est conseillé de postuler dans la langue de l'offre.
Pendant le processus, suis-je informé du statut de ma candidature ?
Chaque poste à pourvoir est unique, et mener à bien le processus est important pour vous comme pour nous. Nous voulons être sûrs que nous travaillerons bien ensemble. Nous fournirons des retours aux candidats tout au long du processus.
Les employés peuvent-ils evoluer d'une branche/d'un pays à l'autre ?
Oui, c'est même une caractéristique de Henkel : nos employés sont polyvalents et mobiles. Cela contribue à la grande réussite mondiale de notre entreprise.
Notre philosophie « Triple two » va dans ce sens : vous pourrez acquérir une expérience dans au moins deux fonctions, deux pays différents et deux secteurs d'activités. Nous appliquons cette philosophie car nous pensons qu'occuper différents postes, dans différents domaines et dans nos différentes branches est bénéfique pour votre évolution personnelle et vous permet de mieux comprendre Henkel en tant qu'entreprise mondiale.
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Qui puis-je contacter si j'ai des questions sur ma candidature ?
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