HR Operations Specialist – French Speaker

Location: PSS – Lisbon (Central), Portugal

At Thales, you’ll join our HR Shared Service Center, supporting employees and managers across different countries while helping deliver a consistent, high-quality employee experience — every single day.

French language skills are required to support HR activities for our organization in France.

Responsabilities:

• Act as the first point of contact for employees providing support on a wide range of HR topics with a people-first approach.

• Own and support the end-to-end employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring a smooth and positive experience.

• Maintain and update HR systems and employee data, ensuring accuracy, compliance and high data quality standards.

• Support international HR operations, including onboarding, mobility processes and day-to-day HR administration.

• Prepare and manage HR documentation (contracts, letters, reports) in a timely and accurate manner.

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and HR projects, helping optimize processes and enhance employee experience.

Requirements:

• A degree in HR, Management or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience in HR operations.

• Fluency in French and English (mandatory).

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to interact confidently and empathetically with different stakeholders.

• A detail-oriented and structured mindset, with the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently.

• A proactive, adaptable and solution-driven attitude in a fast-paced, international environment.

• Experience with tools like Workday or ServiceNow is a plus.

About Thales:
The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.

For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact Cláudia Gaio is looking forward to your online application on our Career portal.

Cláudia Gaio – Talent Acquisition Partner

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