HR Advisor Distribution Centre Santa Maria da Feira
At a glance
Mid-level HR Business Partner & Generalist role at Action. Portugal.
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What you'll do
- Help recruit and ramp up around 200 hourly and salaried staff, coordinating with temporary employment agencies
- Handle employee support from onboarding and records through development, performance matters and departures
- Guide managers and employees on Portuguese employment rules, internal policies and HR processes
- Manage local employee relations and coordinate records, workforce planning, absence tracking and HR reporting
- Support the distribution centre launch, employee development, HR projects and improvements as it grows
What you bring
- Relevant experience in a generalist HR role, including recruitment across different levels
- Higher education and fluency in English
- Working knowledge of Portuguese labour law, payroll calculations and personnel administration
- Strong organization and prioritization, with accuracy, discretion and the ability to work independently
Who this fits
This role suits an autonomous HR generalist who can support managers and employees while helping establish a new distribution centre. You’ll work with the HRBP for Spain, Italy and Portugal and the local management team. Travel is expected, mainly early on for onboarding.
From the employer
HR Advisor Distribution Centre Santa Maria da Feira
We are Europe’s fastest-growing non-food discounter, operating a rapidly expanding logistics network with 16 Distribution Centres across Europe. In June 2025, we opened our first DC in Spain, today we are about launching our second distribution center and, to further support our growth in the Iberian Peninsula, Action is now moving to the next level by opening another Distribution Centre located between Porto and Aveiro, in Santa Maria da Feira.
About your role
As HR Advisor you will play a key role in the successful start-up of our new Distribution Centre in Portugal which will be launched in August 2027. You will work closely with the HRBP Supply Chain for Spain/Italy/Portugal and with the local DC management team to provide full HR support across the employee lifecycle, from hiring to on boarding, administration, development and performance management.
You will be the main point of contact for day-to-day HR matters at our new Distribution Centre and will play an active role in its successful start-up. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the recruitment and ramp-up of approximately 200 employees, covering both blue- and white-collar positions and working closely with temporary employment agencies;
- Providing hands-on HR support across the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, employee administration, development, performance management and offboarding;
- Advising and supporting managers and employees on HR matters, Portuguese labour law, company policies and HR procedures;
- Managing local labour relations and maintaining constructive relationships with employee representatives, Works Council and/or trade unions;
- Coordinating HR administration and ensuring accurate employee data and documentation, in close cooperation with Payroll and the Shared Service Centre;
- Supporting workforce planning, absence and vacation management, HR reporting and other key people indicators;
- Coordinating employee development initiatives and supporting the implementation of corporate HR policies and processes;
- Participating in local and international HR projects and continuously improving HR processes as the Distribution Centre grows.
What we are looking for
- Relevant experience as HR Generalist, ideally in an international and multicultural environment;
- Excellent work organization skills (accuracy, reliability, and attention to detail);
- Ability to work autonomously and to set priorities;
- Fluent in English;
- Strong social and empathetic skills, with a high sense of discretion;
- Creativity and a high level of initiative;
- Higher education;
- Experience in conducting recruitment processes at various organizational levels;
- Good working knowledge of Portuguese labour law, basics of payroll calculation, and personnel administration
- Good command of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint);
- Availability to travel, mainly at the beginning for onboarding purposes.
What is nice to have:
- Experience in the logistics/manufacturing industry;
- Familiar with SAP & SuccessFactors;
- Experience in a multicultural, multinational environment.
How we contribute to society
If you only know Action from the stores, a world will open up for you when you join us. For example, we areworking hard behind the scenes to make a positive impact on society and the environment. Did you know, forexample, that we sponsor more than 2,000 children worldwide who are growing up in an SOS Children’s Village?That our team reflects the diversity of our customers, including 124 nationalities? That we already source 70% ofour wood products and 86% of our cotton sustainably? And that only energy-efficient LED lighting is used in morethan half of our stores? Yes, that is also Action. Curious about what other initiatives we’re facilitating? Join ourteam and find out for yourself.
What we offer
- Full-time, permanent employment contract;
- Competitive remuneration;
- Opportunity to work in a large, dynamically growing international company.
Interested?
We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite to apply to anyone who recognizes themselves in the vacancy. So, take action! and respond to this vacancy now and apply in English.
What happens next:
- Response to your application;
- Check in conversation;
- Interview with the hiring manager (HRBP Italy, Spain and Portugal);
- Online assessment to get to know you better;
- Interview with the Head of HR Supply Chain and a member of the Distribution Center team;
- Final conversation with the HRBP Italy, Spain and Portugal;
- Welcome to Action!