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Synthorx

Synthorx

People & HR
Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey
Posted on Sep 3, 2025

People Services Specialist - Turkey & Levant

The role has the overall accountability of the end-to-end People Services - Operations is to deliver best-in-class service to Employees and to partner with relevant business representatives across the Turkey & Levant organization to ensure sustainable processes.

The People Services Specialist reports to the Head of People Services Eurasia.

In addition to this oriented role within the company the People Services Specialist ensures all administrative management of the employees.

Key Responsibilities

The purpose of People Services Specialist is to ensure that:

  • Ensure smooth process for On-boarding and Off-boarding

  • Ensure smooth process of all Job changes

  • Ensure smooth process of all new recruits are created on Workday timely

  • Follow up all KPIs for People Services tasks

  • Ensure all the all data is kept up to-date in the Workday system

  • Ensure accurate payroll input is sent timely to the payroll department

  • Legal payment requests follow up

  • Conducting expatriate transactions

  • Supporting benefits transactions (Medical plan, lunch ticket etc)

  • Managing employee reward platform

  • Supporting personnel administration tasks such as employment certificate, visa documents demands etc. when needed

  • Managing Workday master data

  • Act as point of contact for between internal and external clients

  • Handle requests and queries appropriately

  • Ensure business partnering and support to People and Culture and the affiliate

  • Ensure compliance is respected

  • Manage employee self-service platform locally in collaboration with People and Culture team

Requirements:

  • Very good understanding of relevant People & Culture topics

  • Fluent in English and Turkish in both speaking and writing

  • Solid communications skills

  • Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information

  • Team spirit

  • Sound administration skills

  • Providing timely and efficient support to People Services, People & Culture, line managers and employees

  • Personality with strong delivery skills and focused on results

  • Adapt to change

  • Willing to learn and share knowledge

  • Agility

  • Highly focused, proactive, results orientated and self driven.

  • Able to use initiative within the framework of the position & its level of authority ; knows when to refer decisions to a more senior level.

  • Develops good working relationships within the company, as is approachable; demonstrates intercultural adaptability and sensitivity.

  • Shows integrity, tenacity, resilience and adaptability in a changing environment; is able to prioritize work according to importance & level of urgency; is able to work under pressure and commit to and respect deadlines

Terms of Employment

  • This full-time position does not have people management responsibility.

Location

Istanbul

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