HR Business Partner (Spain + Greece)

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Elevate your HR career by joining a dynamic, international HR team where you will serve as a strategic partner for our operations across Spain and Greece. This high-impact role offers the unique opportunity to navigate complex matrix environments and work councils, allowing you to leverage your deep expertise in local legislation to drive a high-performance culture. As a trusted advisor to senior leadership you will shape organizational design and lead change management strategies that directly influence our international growth.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

The HRBP will work proactively with leaders to provide value-added, legally compliant, and business-focused HR solutions and interventions:

Employee Relations & Legal Compliance

• Serve as the expert authority on all employee relations and local employment law/compliance matters across Spain and Greece.

• Provide sound, legally-grounded HR advice, guidance, and support to leaders and individual performers, ensuring consistency and risk mitigation.

• Possess a proven track record of effectively managing employee relations within a work council environment ensuring compliance with relevant collective bargaining agreements.

• Educate leaders and employees on all aspects of HR policy, process, procedure, and legal updates to ensure continuous compliance.

• Embed and sustain a high-performance culture, ensuring fair and legally compliant performance management practices.

• Support in all aspects of recruitment, performance management, and remuneration activity.

Strategic HR Business Partnership

• Build and maintain strong, credible working relationships with business partners, acting as a Strategic HR Business Partner to align HR strategies with critical business objectives.

• Leverage HR metrics, analytics, and insights to inform strategic decision-making and demonstrate HR’s impact on the business.

• Lead organisational design efforts, ensuring structures, roles, and responsibilities are optimised for business efficiency and future growth.

• Design and implement change management strategies to facilitate compliant organisational transformation and enhance operational effectiveness.

Collaboration & Communication

• Partner with the wider International HR team to ensure global and local policies, processes, and tools are aligned with business goals and best practices.

• Have daily contact with leaders at all levels as well as employees.

• Contact with suppliers and third-party providers, for example, external legal counsel.

In this role you will:

• Develop global connectivity and collaborate with HR experts across Europe.

• Work in a hybrid model that respects your professional autonomy.

• Have an opportunity to visit MSI European offices including our vibrant Madrid hub.

• Use modern tools and have access to a high-end tech stack (Google Workspace, advanced HRIS) to streamline your impact.

Basic Requirements

The ideal candidate will:

• Operate as a trusted, credible HRBP with a high degree of professionalism and strategic perspective.

• Speaks fluent English and Spanish

• Possess exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to build credibility and influence leaders at all levels, particularly in navigating complex ER issues.

• Be able to challenge and influence in a positive, constructive manner, ensuring legal and policy compliance.

• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to handle ambiguity and make sound, legally-defensible decisions in a fast-paced environment.

• Have strong experience managing employee relations issues, with a balanced and legally-compliant approach to advocacy for employees and the organisation.

• Be commercially and financially aware.

• Exhibit excellent customer service.

• Be a self-starter with a willingness and drive to ‘go the extra mile’ when required.

• Be highly organised, able to prioritise, and work effectively under pressure.

Academic and Technical Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent professional HR certification is highly desirable.

Other Technical Expertise, Experience, and Knowledge

• Proven track record as an Expert HRBP, providing strategic and compliant HR support at all levels.

• Deep and sound knowledge of current employment law, labour relations, and compliance requirements for the supported countries (Spain, Greece).

• Proven track record of managing complex and sensitive employee relations issues and investigations.

• Essential experience of operating in a work council environment, specifically navigating local legislation.

• Strong business acumen.

Location and Language Requirements

• Location: Portugal 

• Language:

• Essential: Fluency in English and Spanish (written and verbal).

• Desirable: Proficiency in Portuguese and/or Italian.

Travel: Travel to Spain, Madrid as required

Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

No

Company

Motorola Solutions Portugal, Lda

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.