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People Excellence Lead Portugal

Synthorx

Synthorx

People & HR
2740 Porto Salvo, Portugal
Posted on May 13, 2025

Job title: People Excellence Lead Portugal (HRBP)

  • Grade: L3

  • Hiring Manager: Heidi Van de Woestyne

  • Location: Lisbon

  • Job type: Permanent, Full time

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi is a leading global healthcare company going through a significant modernization. We are on a journey to attract and develop top diverse talent to join our mission to bring innovation to more and more patients around the world.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate People Excellence Lead to partner with the organization’s leadership and People & Culture (P&C) team as the catalyst for the deployment of the One Sanofi People Strategy for the company. The incumbent will contribute to the achievement of the company's short- and long-term strategy and objectives.

Main responsibilities:

As a member of the Iberia People & Culture team, you will be expected to work in close partnership with the business leaders and the rest of the P&C community across the geography.

Ensure the deployment of One P&C agenda and P&C culture change at country level in Portugal.

Drive P&C function matters at local level and provide input to market view.

Own P&C support model for employees and line managers. Proactively encourage all line managers and employees to utilize Employee Self Service/Manager Self Service (One Support, Concierge etc)

Provide input on workforce planning for the respective country.

Provide input to People Services management improving service experience and efficiency.

Own the local deployment of Social Unions /Labor Relations strategy aligned with Global and market Labor Relations. Be the liaison to the co-determination bodies.

Manage personnel cost/ budget for the country.

Provide coaching at leadership level.

Champion “learn, share & re-apply” across the Sanofi organization by collaborating with PBPs, CoEs and People Services

Act in advisory capacity concerning escalations for key and leadership roles at country level.

Ensure talent strategy deployment at country level: Partner with the Portugal leadership to support their individual development. Review the country talent pipeline depth to ensure appropriate talent density in partnership with the respective market and GBU/GF PBP and TM Leads, drive the importance of the talent principles through coaching of the leaders in country, including encouraging bold moves on talent and supporting talent acquisition activities in the country.

Partners with leaders and Talent Acquisition CoE on senior leadership hires for the country and on hires into roles which help to build deep skill/knowledge in a critical capability area aligned to strategic plans.

Partnering with Learning COE to help build deep skill/knowledge.

Double hatting with People Excellence Partner role at Iberia level for transversal topics.

Promote continuous improvement through feedback loops and process improvement ideas and implementation.

About you

- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Law, Business Administration, or related field; master’s degree preferred.

- Strong experience as generalist HR experience. International exposure is desirable.

- Strong experience in labour relations in Portuguese market

- Great leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the organization & ability to represent P&C externally.

- Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.

- Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

- Fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary.

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!