HR Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
Based in Spain, this role will partner with leaders and teams in Spain. This individual will have a commercially focused mindset and translate those business needs to human resources capabilities requirements.

The role will work closely with cross-functional partners for successful planning and delivery of HR programs and services. We are seeking someone with a customer focus, a solid understanding of people strategy and practices, who thrives in complex environments while maintaining high levels of empathy and a sense of humour.

**What we expect of you, day to day.**
- Partner with leaders, managers and teams to deliver HR plans, programs and processes. This role will deliver strategically important HR programs, blended with an operational focus.
- Demonstrate strong advisory ability and the capability to develop solutions across a range of HR disciplines such as culture and engagement, organizational design, talent management & development and strategic people strategy.
- Driving the future state talent landscape by partnering with leaders to conduct talent reviews, create succession plans and customize development plans for key talent
- Utilize proven coaching and communication skills to drive employee engagement and manage change, ensuring motivation and retention of talent is a core priority for leaders.
- Proactively identify people related opportunities, using organizational health metrics as a key driver, that will have a key impact and work across stakeholder groups to co-create solutions
- Collaborate with centres of excellence (CoE’s) and the broader Europe HR community to design and deliver the implementation of both HR and Business programmes and initiatives.
- Using data, consistently measure effectiveness of HR initiatives and programs to ensure they are delivering desired outcomes.

**Qualifications**:
**What we’re after **
- Depth of experience as a commercial HR generalist in a large, matrixed, and high growth organization.
- Proven knowledge of Spanish HR Practice, and experience of operating beyond one country is key.
- Strong influencing, coaching and communication skills, grounded in an ability to build credibility and gravitas, creating trusted client partnerships built on a mix of challenge and support.
- Experience in a growing global business and positive reputation for working effectively and influencing across all levels of an organization
- Experience working in a fast paced and matrixed HR function with a solution focused / customer centric mind-set
- Successful implementation and project management of operational and strategically important HR programs and processes across a region of countries.
- Possess strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to constructively challenge, honed in a demanding and high performing work environment
- Hands on approach willing to roll up sleeves to deliver results. Flexible and optimistic mindset with low ego.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.