# People (HR) Manager - EMEA Team

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Porto Salvo, Lisbon District
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

**Apply**: https://careers.synopsys.com/job/porto-salvo/people-hr-manager-emea-team/44408/100174818528?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are seeking a People (HR) Manager to join our team in Portugal, with broad EMEA regional scope.

You will play a critical role in supporting a high-growth, transformation-driven business by managing complex HR cases, driving key people initiatives, and ensuring consistency in HR practices across the region.

**Responsibilities**

### People Support and Operational Effectiveness

- Provide clear and practical guidance to managers and employees on People policies, processes, and sensitive cases

- Support complex People operations issues and help improve service delivery, consistency, and employee experience across the region

- Contribute to more scalable and effective ways of working across teams and countries

### Compliance, Labor Relations and Risk Support

- Support employee and manager matters related to performance, promotion, compensation, sick leave, and other policy topics, with a strong focus on consistency and compliance

- Support legal entity requirements, like state audits

- Partner with Employee Relations, Legal, and People Partners on disciplinary matters, involuntary terminations, and other higher-risk employee relations topics

- Support processes such as reduction in force, labor law and policy updates, and works council or trade union coordination

- Maintain assigned country or regional policies and knowledge-based content so information remains current, compliant, and useful

### Manager Support, Data, and Change

- Support managers through organizational changes, team transitions, and implementation of People processes

- Help translate employee feedback and engagement insights into practical local or team-level actions

- Support integration and change activities, including leader transitions, new country setup or shutdown activity, and post-acquisition support

- Support Mergers and Acquisitions-related employment changes in partnership with relevant stakeholders

### Performance and Employee Experience

- Support performance management processes across the region and coach managers on performance conversations and improvement planning within role scope

- Contribute to retention and employee experience efforts by identifying themes, supporting practical actions, and helping ensure People support is clear and credible

- Partner on manager capability-building and People process enablement as needed

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience

- Solid human resources experience, ideally in a complex, multi-country environment

- Strong understanding of employment law, compliance, and human resources practices across multiple EMEA countries

- Demonstrated experience supporting employee relations, manager guidance, and operational People processes including performance management, terminations, and policy application

- Proficiency with human resources technology and using data to inform decisions

- Additional European language skills are valued, particularly German, French, or Spanish

## Skills

### Required
- HR
- Employment Law
- Compliance
- Employee Relations
- Performance Management

### Nice to have
- German
- French
- Spanish

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Source: [Apply at careers.synopsys.com](https://careers.synopsys.com/job/porto-salvo/people-hr-manager-emea-team/44408/100174818528?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)