People & Culture Generalist, Europe
The People & Culture Generalist serves as the backbone of our European operations, balancing technical HR excellence with a people-first mindset. This role manages the full employee lifecycle - from offer to offboarding - while ensuring our benefits, payroll, and compliance engines run seamlessly. You aren't just an administrator; you are a partner to our managers and a champion of our company culture.
The Why:
SkySpecs is simplifying renewable energy asset management. We’re a fast-paced, proactive team where "staying in your box" isn't a thing. We offer a flexible, casual environment and the autonomy to manage a complex international footprint. Our EMEA operations are critical to our mission, covering a diverse landscape of 9 countries. If you are a global-minded HR pro ready to own the employee experience across borders, you’re in the right place.
Essential Functions
Employee Experience & Engagement
- Front-Line Support: Act as the primary point of contact for European employee inquiries (ticketing/email), providing empathetic and accurate guidance on policies and benefits.
- Engagement & Culture: Operate within the Workleap platform; analyze weekly pulse surveys and partner with management to turn feedback into action. Design initiatives to engage a diverse workforce of field, remote, and office-based teams.
- Talent Acquisition: Act as the internal recruiter for the region; sourcing, interviewing, and hiring top-tier talent to support our growth in EMEA.
- Performance Management: Deliver the annual review cycle and facilitate quarterly talent reviews to identify high-potential employees and support performance interventions.
Global Lifecycle & Mobility
- Onboarding & Offboarding: Lead the journey from offer letters and employment agreements to comprehensive orientations and seamless offboarding.
- Global Mobility: Manage visa and work permit sponsorships, ensuring all European employees are compliant and supported.
- Talent Management: Facilitate quarterly talent review meetings with management to identify high-potential employees and address performance gaps.
- Records & Verifications: Maintain digital personnel files and manage employment verifications with a high degree of confidentiality and GDPR compliance.
Regulatory Compliance & Governance
- Multi-Country Governance: Manage employment agreements and amendments across 9 countries (UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Sweden, Austria, Netherlands, Serbia, and Denmark.).
- Legal Expertise: Navigate local labor laws, Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs), and statutory requirements in collaboration with external counsel and HR consultants.
- Time & Leave SME: Oversee timesheet management and manage complex leave entitlements (Maternity, Paternity, Sick Leave, and Annual Leave) in accordance with local statutory laws.
Total Rewards & Technical Operations
- Payroll Partnership: Provide critical monthly payroll inputs to Finance partners, ensuring 100% accuracy and compliance.
- Benefits & Pensions: Manage localized benefits, including pensions and private medical plans , and coordinate with occupational health providers.
- Compensation: Conduct annual benchmarking to ensure competitiveness in the European market; administer the annual bonus and merit cycle.
- Leaves & Disability: Serve as the subject matter expert for annual leave and other types of leave, including registering with government agencies as needed, ensuring compliance and empathy throughout the process.
- HRIS & Analytics: Serve as an administrator for UKG and Deel, utilizing data to provide insights on turnover, engagement, and headcount trends.
Job Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in HR, International Business, or a related field (or local equivalent, e.g., CIPD Level 5/7).
- Experience: 5+ years of HR Generalist experience, with a proven track record in multi-country EMEA HR operations.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in UKG Pro, UKG Ready, Deel, and Workleap are a plus; high proficiency in MS Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs) highly preferred.
- Location: Must be based in the UK, Ireland, or Denmark with the ability to work effectively in a hybrid or remote environment.
- Languages: Bilingual skills in Spanish or French are a plus.
Competencies
- Global Mindset: You effortlessly navigate the nuances of different European labor markets and cultural expectations.
- Business Acumen: You understand how People decisions impact our bottom line and our mission in renewable energy.
- Process improvement: You have a "continuous improvement" mindset, always looking to automate or streamline workflows.
- Communication: You can explain complex benefit structures or policy changes in a way that is easy for employees to digest. You practice active listening and provide stakeholders with useful guidance.
- Problem solving: You don't just find a mess; you build a better system so the mess doesn't happen again. You take initiative and leverage resources to find solutions.
- Organization & Prioritization: A generalist role managing a diverse workforce requires a "black belt" in task management. Prioritization and organization are essential for success.
- Attention to detail: You spot the errors before they become a problem. You are meticulous with employment contracts, GDPR-compliant data, and payroll inputs where there is zero margin for error.
- Discretion: You handle sensitive information with the highest level of integrity.
- One Team Attitude: You’re willing to jump in and help wherever needed—no ego, just results.
Physical requirements:
- Must be able to sit for extended periods (up to 8 hours per day) while performing desk-based computer and phone work.
