HR Operations Specialist Iberia (temporary)

Thefork; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; A tiempo parcial

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible working environment

Lunch vouchers

Team building events

Multicultural office environment

Descripción de la vacante

Thefork is hiring an HR Operations expert in Barcelona, Spain, to optimize the employee lifecycle and ensure compliance with labor laws. You will lead onboarding, offboarding, and various HR operations while working closely with cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates have 3-5 years in HR, strong project management skills, and fluency in Spanish and English. The role offers a flexible working environment, a competitive salary, and various perks in a multicultural setting.

Formación

• 3-5 years of experience in HR Operations.
• Strong expertise in labor regulations in Spain and Portugal.
• Project management skills with a detail-oriented approach.

Responsabilidades

• Act as a strategic HR partner for Iberia.
• Oversee HR compliance with legal frameworks.
• Manage payroll inputs and corporate benefits.

Conocimientos

HR Operations

Project Management

Detail-oriented

Spanish Labor Regulations

Portuguese Labor Regulations

Tech Savvy

Fluent in English

Herramientas

Workday

Gdrive

Notion

Descripción del empleo

What you will do:

• Act as a strategic partner to the Iberia HRBPs, ensuring the operational alignment of People strategies across the region.
• Lead and optimize the entire employee lifecycle, delivering an exceptional employee experience across onboarding, leave management (temporary disability/IT), and offboarding processes.
• Ensure full legal and operational compliance of all contractual documentation, internal policies, and employee handbooks in accordance with the regulatory frameworks of Spain and Portugal.
• Proactively maintain, audit, and safeguard digital employee files to ensure permanent internal audit readiness for legal or corporate requirements.
• Oversee the governance of HR data, ensuring strict regulatory compliance with data protection laws (GDPR) across all departmental information workflows.
• Coordinate and supervise payroll inputs with the external vendor, guaranteeing data quality, timely payments, and social/tax compliance for Iberia.
• Manage the end-to-end administration of corporate benefits and flexible remuneration schemes, leading vendor relations and resolving complex employee inquiries.
• Execute annual Compensation and Benefits (C&B) processes, including salary review cycles, as well as the calibration and accrual of variable bonuses.
• Act as the primary focal point (Tier 1/2 Support) for employee inquiries regarding labor relations and internal policies across Iberia, maintaining excellent response SLAs.
• Maintain core HRIS functionality (Workday), ensuring the integrity of master data and leveraging HR Analytics to build dashboards for data-driven decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement across People Ops workflows by automating manual tasks and designing impactful Employee Experience strategies.
• Collaborate on cross-functional regional (EMEA) and global HR initiatives, leading the local implementation of system upgrades and global policy harmonization.
• Serve as the internal labor law advisor for Iberia, anticipating legislative or collective bargaining agreement modifications, and assessing their impact on the company's operational policies.

Who you are:

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications

• 3-5 solid years of experience in HR Operations
• Rigorous, autonomous, curious, project management & detail oriented
• Open minded, responsible & eager to learn
• Actively seeks ways to optimize internal processes and elevate team practices.
• Strong expertise in Spanish and Portuguese labor regulations, local legal frameworks, and corporate HR policy compliance
• Tech savvy: use of HRIS Workday, Gdrive, Notion
• Fluent in Spanish, advanced level of English

You Can Impress With These Additions:

• Good level of Portuguese
• International experience

What we offer you:

• An awesome team
• A temporary contract
• Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week)
• Competitive fixed salary
• Lunch vouchers available for each working day
• International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 11 offices across Europe
• Highly inclusive working environment
• Amazing offices with dining, a coffee point on each floor, and leisure area
• Team building events

All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application, interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to [e-mail]. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.