HR Specialist (m/f/d)

airliquidehr; Fatih; On-site; TRY 520,000 - 730,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Liquide in Istanbul is seeking an HR Specialist to lead local HR operations, including payroll, benefits, Workday administration, recruitment, onboarding and offboarding, and compliance with Turkish labor regulations.

The role requires 5–6 years of HR experience across ER, benefits, and recruitment, with fluency in Turkish and advanced English. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly organized, and proactive in solving HR challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5–6 years of progressive HR experience across ER, Benefits, and Recruiting.
• Fluent Turkish and advanced English (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Payroll & Benefits Operations: manage monthly timekeeping data and insurance enrollment/tracking.
• Visa & Travel Documentation: prepare and manage employee visa documents and travel paperwork.
• Personnel Files & Compliance: maintain complete and compliant personnel files (özlük dosyaları).
• Health Reports & SSI Claims: track health/sick reports, file SSI (SGK) reimbursement claims, monthly reporting.
• Annual Leave Management: track balances, process leave requests, audit data accuracy.
• Workday Administration: update employee data and ensure data integrity in Workday.
• HR Policies & Procedures: develop and maintain HR procedures and guidelines.
• Recruitment Operations & Employee Lifecycle: end-to-end recruitment, onboarding and offboarding.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Attention to detail

Proactive problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business

Job description

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

We are looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented HR Specialist to join our team in Istanbul. In this key role, you will be the backbone of our local HR operations - managing everything from end-to-end recruitment and onboarding to payroll administration, Turkish labor compliance (SGK & özlük dosyaları), and Workday system maintenance.

• Payroll & Benefits Operations: Managing monthly production and intern timekeeping data, overseeing private health insurance and life insurance enrollment/tracking.

• Visa & Travel Documentation: Preparing and managing employee visa application documents and related travel paperwork.

• Personnel Files & Compliance: Ensuring employee personnel files (özlük dosyaları) are complete, fully documented, and compliant with legal requirements.

• Health Reports & Social Security (SSI) Claims: Tracking employee health/sick reports, filing and following up on SSI (SGK) reimbursement claims, and preparing monthly reports.

• Annual Leave Management: Tracking annual leave balances, processing leave requests in the system, and auditing leave data accuracy.

• Workday Administration: Maintaining and updating employee data within the Workday system to ensure data integrity.

• HR Policies & Procedures: Developing, updating, and maintaining company HR procedures and guidelines.

• Recruitment Operations & Employee Lifecycle: Executing end-to-end recruitment operations, managing onboarding (giriş) and offboarding (çıkış) processes.

Are you a MATCH?

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field is required.

• Experience: 5-6 years of progressive experience in Human Resources, with exposure to multiple HR disciplines (ER, Benefits, Recruiting).

• Languages: Turkish (fluent/native) and English (advanced in both, spoken and written)

• Skills: Excellent communication skills, strong organizational talent, high attention to detail, and a proactive, solution-oriented working style.

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Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.