People Support Services Team Manager

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

At Thales, you’ll join our HR Shared Service Center, supporting employees and managers across different countries while helping deliver a consistent, high-quality employee experience — every single day.

As a People Support Services Team Manager – France, you will lead a team responsible for delivering HR services to our organization in France, ensuring operational excellence, compliance, and a seamless employee experience. You will drive team performance, foster continuous improvement, and collaborate with local HR teams and international stakeholders to ensure efficient, consistent, and customer-oriented HR service delivery.

French language skills are required to lead and support HR activities for our organization in France.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and manage the PSS team: Oversee daily operations, allocate workloads, set priorities, and ensure the team meets established service levels, quality standards, and operational targets.

- Ensure HR service delivery excellence: Oversee HR administrative and employee support services for France, ensuring accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and a positive employee experience.

- Manage team performance and development: Set clear objectives, monitor individual and team performance, provide regular feedback and support professional development and engagement.

- Ensure compliance with HR policies and legislation: Ensure HR operations follow internal policies, data protection requirements, and applicable French labour legislation and employment practices.

- Drive continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to optimise processes, improve efficiency, standardise procedures and enhance service quality across the PSS organisation.

- Monitor KPIs and service levels: Track operational performance indicators, analyse trends, identify root causes of recurring issues and implement corrective actions when needed.

- Manage stakeholder relationships: Build effective partnerships with local HR teams, HR Business Partners, employees and other internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and resolve escalated matters.

- Support change and transformation initiatives: Contribute to HR projects, process harmonisation, digitalisation and the implementation or optimisation of HR systems and tools.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related field.

- Experience in HR operations, People Services, HR Shared Services, or a similar environment, including previous team management or leadership responsibilities.

- Good understanding of French employment legislation and HR administrative practices, with the ability to ensure compliance across relevant processes.

Ability to lead, motivate, coach and develop a team while fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.

Experience working with KPIs, SLAs, operational metrics, and service quality standards in a customer-oriented environment.

Demonstrated ability to analyse processes, identify inefficiencies, implement improvements and support standardization and automation initiatives.

Proficiency in HR systems and tools, ideally including Workday, ServiceNow, or similar HRIS and case management platforms.

Fluency in French and English, with strong communication skills.

About Thales:

The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.

For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries, we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management, we actively support diversity.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change, our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it?

Your contact, Cláudia Gaio, is looking forward to meeting you. Apply now to our role!

Cláudia Gaio – Talent Acquisition Partner

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