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Remote in Portugal·Added 9 days ago (last checked 12 Nov)
Our summary
- Work mode
- Remote (Portugal)
- Languages
- Russian
- Experience
- Senior level
Skills
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Senior HR leadership experience with strong recruitment and organisational development expertise.
- Proven results improving quality of hire, retention, probation outcomes, and performance.
- Hands-on experience auditing end-to-end HR processes, recruitment funnels, and process deviations.
- Strong capability in HR / Recruitment analytics, KPIs, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Experience in performance management, engagement, culture, organisational design, and workforce planning.
- Ability to build practical processes and lead their adoption across different business functions.
- Experience with distributed international teams and awareness of contractor / employment arrangements.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, ownership, and fluent English.
Nice to have
- Plus to have:
- Russian fluency
- In-house recruitment or HR experience within the construction, real estate, architecture, design, or hospitality industries. Experience hiring for or working directly within these sectors is preferred.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
- Opportunity to build and shape the People function of an international luxury hospitality business.
- Direct involvement in strategic organisational decisions and meaningful transformation.
- High autonomy, ownership, and visibility with senior leadership.
- International exposure, remote work, and occasional travel.
- Entrepreneurial environment with a lean, collaborative, multidisciplinary team.
The role
We are looking for a Head of People to lead and transform our international HR and Recruitment function. You will improve talent quality, performance, and retention; strengthen organisational culture; and implement scalable people processes across a diverse international business.
You will systematically assess HR processes and recruitment funnels, identify gaps and root causes, and deliver data-driven improvements. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build processes from the ground up, lead change in a low-process-maturity environment, and deliver measurable results with a lean team.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute People strategy aligned with business needs.
- Lead a lean HR and Recruitment team and improve its effectiveness.
- Strengthen sourcing, candidate assessments, hiring standards, and quality of hire.
- Analyse recruitment funnels and the entire HR lifecycle; track deviations, investigate root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Build onboarding, performance management, feedback, retention, and development processes.
- Build a sustainable culture of engagement, accountability, and high performance.
- Establish and continuously improve People dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting.
- Adapt people practices to corporate functions, site teams, and potentially hospitality operations.
- Partner with leadership on organisational effectiveness, headcount planning, and employee performance.
- Oversee international People operations and partner with Legal and Finance on compliance.
- Personally drive implementation and adoption of improvements.
About Utopia
- Employees
- 150
- Headquarters
- Barcelona, Spain
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Additional information
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