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Job Introduction
Regional HR Business Partner – Republic of Ireland
Location: Flexible, Republic of Ireland
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: €60,000 to € 75,000
About the Role
We’re looking for a passionate and commercially minded Regional HR Business Partner to join our HR team. This is a key leadership role, partnering closely with business leaders and regional directors to deliver strategic HR initiatives that drive people performance, engagement, and growth across the organisation.
You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the people strategy, supporting business development, and ensuring that our HR community delivers meaningful impact. Acting as a trusted advisor, you’ll coach and support leadership teams, strengthen employee and industrial relations, and deliver innovative HR solutions that align with both our business goals and client expectations.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with business and regional leadership to design and execute people strategies that enhance performance and growth.
- Lead proactive and effective Employee and Industrial Relations (ER/IR) initiatives, maintaining strong relationships with employees, representatives, and trade unions.
- Develop and deliver the People Plan, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
- Drive talent management, succession planning, and workforce development to build a strong leadership pipeline.
- Lead organisational change, supporting business transformation and cultural evolution.
- Support HR bid management and contribute to client retention and business growth.
- Ensure compliance, governance, and best practice across all HR processes.
What You’ll Bring
- Degree or equivalent qualification in HR or related field.
- Significant generalist HR experience, ideally in a complex, matrixed organisation.
- Proven expertise in Employee and Industrial Relations, including union engagement and dispute resolution.
- Strong business and commercial acumen, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience in talent management, change management, and organisational design.
- Excellent communication, coaching, and facilitation skills.
- A proactive, collaborative, and solutions-focused approach.
Why Sodexo?:
Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.
Belong in a company and team that values you for you.
Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.
Thrive in your own way.
We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:
- Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
- Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
- Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
- Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
- Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
- Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
- Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies
A little more about Sodexo:
At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.
Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.
Ready to be part of something greater?
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Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications