Senior HR Specialist with Spanish
About the company
World leader in allergy ALK's aspiration is to become the world leader in allergy by helping as many people as possible to a better life by providing options of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of allergy.
In HR Department we contribute to this aspiration by supporting the organization both local and globally.
Your tasks
- Be the go-to person for our Spanish employees and managers when it comes to our HR system, Workday, partnering with our Workday team in Krakow whenever new set-ups or functionalities are implemented.
- Ensure that HR systems (Workday, absences, time management, compensation, intranet, chatbot) are accurate and up to date, and act as owner of HR data quality.
- Turn HR data into insight: build and maintain strategic dashboards and reports for the HR leadership.
- Follow up the budget of the Spanish HR function: track spend against budget, assist on payment requests and invoices, solve incidents with the European Accountant Center (EAC) in Krakow, and report deviations and risks proactively to the HR Director.
- Keep HR documents, manuals and the employee handbook up to date.
- Keep benefits administration data up to date for employees in Spain, from onboarding to offboarding, in coordination with the HR team in Madrid.
- Support HR projects for continuous improvement and employee experience, managing the contact with external consultants.
- Monitor the HR inbox to classify and prioritize emails, routing requests to the right person in the team.
- Support ad-hoc tasks in the HR department and act as back-up of colleagues when needed.
Requirements
- Degree in Human Resources or similar
- Minimum 5 years of experience as HR Operations Specialist or HR Generalist in an international company.
- Hands-on experience with HR systems; practical experience with Workday is a must.
- Experience in budget follow-up and invoice management.
- Strong analytical skills and experience building reports and dashboards; very good command of Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP).
- Solid knowledge of the end-to-end employee life cycle.
- Spanish (C1 or above) is mandatory, together with English (C1).
- Interest in working in modern, digital environments.
- Knowledge of Spanish labor law.
- Polish language.
- Very good written and verbal communication skills; an effective and empathic communication style.
- High level of autonomy and ownership, with a proactive approach to identifying risks and proposing solutions.
- A structured and detail-oriented working style.
- Positive, customer-focused mindset with a high impact on our culture.
- Discretion when handling confidential employee data.
- Team player, comfortable working remotely and in close coordination with the HR colleagues in Madrid.
- Global and digital mindset.
What we offer
As an employer ALK in Poland offers the kind of generous and competitive benefits package you would expect, including standard features such as a Multisport card, private medical care and life insurance, as well as extras like Sodexo card, company bikes, holiday donations, Christmas vouchers, mobile phones for all employees, flexible working hours, and an additional day off on your birthday.
Other
Your role as Senior HR Specialist You will work from our office in Krakow, Poland (hybrid working model) and collaborate remotely with the Spanish HR Team located in Madrid, Spain, reporting to the HR Director Southern Europe & Poland, also based in Madrid. You will join two HR colleagues in Madrid and complement the team with a specialist focus on HR systems, HR data and reporting, HR documentation and budget follow-up. This is a senior role with a high degree of autonomy in these areas: you will keep our HR systems and data accurate, enable data-driven decisions through dashboards, flag budget and process risks to the HR Director, and take part in local and international projects.