Senior Manager, Human Resources (Manufacturing & Country HR)

Join BIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways.

Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, global impact on our mission.

As Senior Manager, Human Resources Greece , you will serve as the strategic HR Business Partner for BIC’s Manufacturing organization and Country HR Leader for Greece. You will translate manufacturing priorities into a focused people agenda, strengthening business performance, organizational capability and workforce effectiveness.

Reporting to the Director, HR Manufacturing Europe & Africa, you will partner with site and business leaders, CoEs and HR Operations/GBS in a global matrix. You will lead the Greece Country HR Hub and local HR and Payroll team, ensuring integrated HR delivery, strong employee and labor relations, and local compliance within BIC’s global HR operating model.

In this role your main missions will be folowing:

- Manufacturing business partnership: Advise and coach senior manufacturing and site leaders on people priorities, connecting HR decisions to P&L, productivity, labor costs and operational performance. Reinforce leader accountability for people management.

- Organization and workforce planning: Lead organization design, strategic workforce and labor-cost planning, addressing capacity, capability, role clarity and succession needs. Support restructuring and workforce actions in line with Greek requirements and BIC standards.

- Talent and leadership: Drive talent reviews, succession, performance management, leadership development and internal mobility. Partner with Talent Acquisition and CoEs on critical hiring, capability gaps and retention risks.

- Change and culture: Enable organizational change and HR transformation through people-impact assessment, communication and adoption. Strengthen engagement, inclusion and a high-performance culture, with leaders accountable for follow-through.

- Employee and labor relations: Lead complex employee matters, employee-representative engagement and collective negotiations, as applicable. Partner with Legal on sensitive or higher-risk issues, ensuring fair, consistent and compliant outcomes.

- Country HR Hub and delivery: Lead Greece’s integrated people agenda, clarifying responsibilities and escalation pathways across local HR, HRBPs, CoEs and HR Operations/GBS. Maintain employee proximity while simplifying processes and transitioning appropriate transactional work.

- Payroll and compliance: Oversee accurate, timely and compliant payroll, effective HR–Payroll integration, statutory controls, data confidentiality and segregation of duties. Ensure governance of Greek employment requirements, including working time, ERGANI II and the Digital Work Card, and partner with EHS/HSSE on people-related safety matters.

- People insights: Use workforce data and employee feedback to guide decisions, identify risks and track outcomes across turnover, absenteeism, talent, workforce cost and organizational health.

- Team leadership: Lead, coach and develop the local HR and Payroll team, setting clear accountabilities and building capability for BIC’s evolving HR operating model.

What you'll bring to BIC:

- 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including strategic HR business partnership in manufacturing, industrial or similarly complex operations.

- Experience advising senior leaders in a global matrix, with strong business acumen and an understanding of productivity, P&L and labor costs.

- Expertise in organization design, workforce planning, talent and succession management, leadership development and change management.

- Strong practical knowledge of Greek employment and labor law, with experience in complex employee relations, employee representation, collective negotiations and workforce change.

- Experience overseeing or partnering closely with Greek payroll and HR administration; working knowledge of ERGANI II, Digital Work Card and relevant industrial health and safety requirements.

- Understanding of pay transparency and equal-pay requirements relevant to Greece, including the EU Pay Transparency Directive and its implications for recruitment, pay practices and gender pay gap reporting.

- Proven HR team leadership, coaching, influencing and analytical skills, balancing global HR standards with local business and regulatory needs.

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Business, Labor Relations, Law or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

- Fluency in Greek and English.

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

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