HR Lead Italy

Job Description

Job Description:

This strategic position is responsible for driving the HR agenda locally, ensuring alignment with the company's global objectives while tailoring priorities to meet market operations and cultural needs. The HR Lead will play a pivotal role in fostering an engaging, inclusive, and high-performing work environment, enabling business success through effective people strategies.

As a trusted strategist, tech-savvy catalyst, and culture weaver — fluent in both data and emotion, you won’t just support the business — you’ll help reinvent it.

Key Responsibilities:

Understanding the Business

-        Business Acumen: Deep understanding of the financial, organisational, and market goals, challenges & strategic landscape. Speaks in business outcomes, not just people processes.

-        Strategic Thinking: Operates with high autonomy to develop and own HR strategy; Aligns HR strategies with business objectives, shapes proactive workforce strategies.

-        Drives Effectiveness: Acts as a consultant to enable organisation, team and individual effectiveness to realise business objectives.

Experience Expert

-        Culture Designer: Architects inclusive, adaptive cultures where innovation thrives; consults on and designs effective engagement strategies.

-        People Advocacy: Advocates for employees’ wellbeing, balancing their needs with business objectives

-        Values-Led, Empathy Driven: Balances transparency and empathy; coaches leaders to ‘Be Real’, authentic & vulnerable.

Change Navigator

-        Change Programs: Skilled in designing, managing and leading transformational change within the organisation.  

-        Communication & Collaboration: Influences decision making, builds relationships, and operates across borders to guide leaders and support employees through transitions.

-        Connector: ‘Connects the dots’ through relationships and navigates the matrix to enable organisational harmony; Partners as One HR to optimise the HR ecosystem & advance overarching HR Programs.

Talent Strategist

-        Strategic Talent Management: Talent profiling/acquisition, career planning, growth (reskilling/upskilling), and retention.

-        Leadership Pipelining: Leads succession planning and implements talent programs to support business objectives; Coaches for Leadership effectiveness.

-        Talent Agent: Creates internal talent marketplaces, enable gig/flex opportunities, and break down silos for career fluidity.

Digital, Data & Tech Enabled

-        Digital Agility: Leverages digital capabilities to enhance HR processes, create efficiencies, and drive results.

-        Data-driven Outcomes: Skilled in collecting, analysing & interpreting data to forecast, and drive decisions; Uses metrics to track performance, engagement, retention and the impact of HR on business outcomes

-        AI & Tech Enablement:  Unites technology & HR strategy to guide on AI implications for the future of work (organisation design, roles & capabilities, performance & effectiveness); leverages AI/tech for self, team and function benefit.

Employee Relations

-        Labour Consultant: Expert in market legal & regulatory requirements, balances business needs and risk posture to influence decisions and ensure compliance; ensures HR policies and practices comply with Italian labour laws, regulations, and industry standards.

-        Negotiation Savviness: Navigate union/WC relations, to influence outcomes and business impacts while fostering a