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HR Operations Specialist Iberia (temporary)

Barcelona

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! 💚

At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values thrive.
If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

👉 Discover life at TheFork

What you will do:

  • Act as a strategic partner to the Iberia HRBPs, ensuring the operational alignment of People strategies across the region.
  • Lead and optimize the entire employee lifecycle, delivering an exceptional employee experience across onboarding, leave management (temporary disability/IT), and offboarding processes.
  • Ensure full legal and operational compliance of all contractual documentation, internal policies, and employee handbooks in accordance with the regulatory frameworks of Spain and Portugal.
  • Proactively maintain, audit, and safeguard digital employee files to ensure permanent internal audit readiness for legal or corporate requirements.
  • Oversee the governance of HR data, ensuring strict regulatory compliance with data protection laws (GDPR) across all departmental information workflows.
  • Coordinate and supervise payroll inputs with the external vendor, guaranteeing data quality, timely payments, and social/tax compliance for Iberia.
  • Manage the end-to-end administration of corporate benefits and flexible remuneration schemes, leading vendor relations and resolving complex employee inquiries.
  • Execute annual Compensation and Benefits (C&B) processes, including salary review cycles, as well as the calibration and accrual of variable bonuses.
  • Act as the primary focal point (Tier 1/2 Support) for employee inquiries regarding labor relations and internal policies across Iberia, maintaining excellent response SLAs.
  • Maintain core HRIS functionality (Workday), ensuring the integrity of master data and leveraging HR Analytics to build dashboards for data-driven decision-making.
  • Drive continuous improvement across People Ops workflows by automating manual tasks and designing impactful Employee Experience strategies.
  • Collaborate on cross-functional regional (EMEA) and global HR initiatives, leading the local implementation of system upgrades and global policy harmonization.
  • Serve as the internal labor law advisor for Iberia, anticipating legislative or collective bargaining agreement modifications, and assessing their impact on the company's operational policies.

Who you are:

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications

  • 3-5 solid years of experience in HR Operations
  • Rigorous, autonomous, curious, project management & detail oriented
  • Open minded, responsible & eager to learn
  • Actively seeks ways to optimize internal processes and elevate team practices.
  • Strong expertise in Spanish and Portuguese labor regulations, local legal frameworks, and corporate HR policy compliance
  • Tech savvy: use of HRIS Workday, Gdrive, Notion
  • Fluent in Spanish, advanced level of English

You Can Impress With These Additions

  • Good level of Portuguese
  • International experience

What we offer you:

Spain  

😄 An awesome team 

🏠 A temporary contract 

⚖️ Flexible working environment  (2 days home office per week)

💸 Competitive fixed salary

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day  

🌎 International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 11 offices across Europe

🤝Highly inclusive working environment  

🍴 Amazing offices with dining, a coffee point on each floor, and leisure area    

🎤 Team building events 

All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure  that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under  applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application,  interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to AccessibleRecruitment@TheFork.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.

 

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