Global Hr Process & Data Quality Owner

We are recruiting a Global HR Process & Data Quality Owner, for a leading international industrial group with strong European roots, which is setting up a Group Business Services hub in Porto.

The hub will bring together expertise in selected support activities to serve the Group’s international operations.

- Design, implement and operate the global HR process governance framework, ensuring clear ownership, standards, decision rights, controls and accountability across the employee lifecycle;

- Own the global hire-to-retire process catalogue, ensuring processes have defined owners, global standards, approved local variations, KPIs, controls and up-to-date documentation;

- Establish and manage the HR data governance framework, including data ownership, stewardship, definitions, quality standards, controls, monitoring and remediation;

- Monitor process performance and data quality across Workday and connected systems, identify root causes and implement sustainable corrective and continuous improvement actions;

- Ensure process and data governance principles are embedded throughout Workday design, testing, deployment, release management and post-go-live change control;

- Lead governance forums, facilitate decision-making, manage escalations and align HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, local HR and other stakeholders across a complex global matrix;

- Balance global HR standards with legitimate local requirements, challenge unnecessary deviations and build governance capability, ownership and accountability across global and local teams.

- Relevant university degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Management, Data Management or related area;

- International experience in HR Operations, global process ownership, HR transformation, HRIS or HR data governance;

- Fluency in English;

- Demonstrated experience designing and operating a global process-governance framework in a multinational organization;

- Demonstrated experience establishing HR data ownership, stewardship, quality standards, controls, scorecards and remediation governance;

- Experience with Workday or a comparable global HCM platform;

- Experience working across HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, analytics and country organizations in a matrix environment;

- Lean, Six Sigma, BPM, data-governance or data-management certification is an advantage.

An opportunity to join a renowned multinational in the industrial sector and contribute to the future of its new unit in Portugal.