HR Business Partner – France, Tunisia

Role Overview

• You will be the go-to person for all HR matters for your markets, acting as a trusted partner to managers and a point of continuity in a fast-paced, multicultural company.
• Reporting directly to the Chief People Officer based in Dubai, you will work with a global HR team across the UAE, Lebanon, and China.
• Full employee lifecycle ownership, from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring a smooth and human-centric experience.
• Local compliance & admin mastery: Contracts, payroll coordination, attestations, leave tracking, CSE election and management, and employer obligations.
• HR business partnering: Daily support to managers, coaching on performance management, conflict resolution, and sensitive issues.
• Work permit processes in France.
• Remote worker care: Ensuring our remote team members feel seen, supported, and connected.
• HR projects: You will contribute ideas and execute them to improve our people experience, from engagement to policy design and adoption.
• Record keeping: Create and maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records, including contracts, attestations, certificates, and leave records. Coordinate with relevant parties to ensure timely and proper enrollment of employees (medical insurance, prevoyance, medical exam…).
• Training & development: Collaborate on our training roadmap and support with deployment.
• Office coordination: Ensure the smooth day-to-day functioning of the Paris office, including oversight of vendor coordination, office logistics, and practical support that contributes to a positive employee experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years in an HR generalist or HRBP role, ideally in international, multicultural companies.
• Strong working knowledge of French labor law. Bonus if you know the Tunisia one.
• Fluent in English and French (spoken and written).
• You have personally handled CSE topics such as elections, meeting preparation, consultation processes and regulatory obligations, and are comfortable managing these processes autonomously.
• You are autonomous but not isolated! You communicate well with your manager and internal clients, ask for support when needed, and follow through without reminders.
• You are detail-oriented, emotionally intelligent, creative, and solution-driven.
• You demonstrate a proactive mindset and naturally take initiative to improve HR processes, employee experience, or internal practices.
• You are comfortable operating in a hands-on environment where flexibility and collaboration are valued, and where supporting operational needs may occasionally require stepping outside strict job boundaries.
• You have experience contributing to or leading HR initiatives or projects, bringing ideas through to implementation.