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You will guide approximately 550+ employees through an evolving business environment while ensuring excellent HR service delivery, strong employee relations, and sustainable business performance across the Guardamar del Segura battery plant and the Ibi poly plant.\nThe position will be based at the Clarios battery plant in Guardamar del Segura in Spain.\nKey Responsibilities:\nRepresent the EMEA HR function at plant level, providing strategic HR leadership and ensuring alignment between regional HR strategy and local business execution while acting as the primary HR business partner to the Plant Manager.\n\nOverall responsibility for all HR processes at the site, including temporary labor, recruiting, talent development, employee relations, labor law compliance, payroll and HR administration\n\nLeadership and development of the local HR teams\n\nEstablish and maintain a strong HR Business Partner role for the Plant Manager while representing the EMEA HR organization at site, ensuring regional HR strategies, standards, and initiatives are effectively implemented locally\n\nDesign and implementation of a future-oriented HR agenda in the context of growth, organizational development, and leadership culture\n\nConfident and solution-oriented collaboration with the Works Council\n\nOverall governance of the payroll agenda\n\nEnsuring discipline and managerial accountability within the production environment together with the leadership team\n\nStrengthening, refining, and continuously supervising existing compensation, benefits, and performance management systems.\n\nSupporting employee engagement, company culture, and internal communication\n\nActive involvement in cross-functional, international HR projects (HR digitalization, process efficiency, leadership development)\n\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities:\nUniversity degree in HR, Law, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field\n\nSolid years of experience as HR Manager / HR Lead in an industrial production environment, ideally automotive environment\n\nAdvanced working knowledge of labor law and its practical application.\n\nProven track record in transformation or change processes, ideally involving cultural and/or structural change\n\nExperience working with Works Councils and confidence in handlinglabor law matters\n\nIdeally, experience in building or scaling HR structures in growing organizations\n\nFluency in Spanish and English language\n\nA strong leader with a cooperative mindset, bringing clarity, structure, and energy to the team\n\nStrong interpersonal skills and assertiveness - credible on the shopfloor as well as within the management team\n\nAbility to think strategically while reliably managing operational HR processes\n\nWhat we offer you\nAs a technology leader with strong brands (i.e. VARTA® and OPTIMA®), Clarios notably lives on the creativity, capability and satisfaction of its employees. Therefore, we offer people with drive and power many good reasons to join us:\nExciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international future-oriented environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement, and sustainability\n\nYour well-being is very important to us: Private medical, life and accident insurance & 100% salary continuation during illness or workplace accidents\n\nArrange your working hours via ourflexible working hours model and combine your professional and private life even better according to our mobile work policy\n\nPower your drive to work with Fuel cards (Repsol & Cepsa) provided by us\n\nOur well-advanced onboarding process supports you to quickly grow into the position and team. By using the offering in our Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program you will be able to further grow professionally and personally\n\nAbout Clarios:\nClarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus - advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF).\nTo All Recruitment Agencies: Clarios does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Please do not forward resumes/CVs to our careers email addresses, Clarios employees or any other company location. Clarios is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.\nEqual Employment Opportunity:\nClarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email .\nA Note to Job Applicants: please be aware of scams being perpetrated through the Internet and social media platforms. 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