HR Business Partner – R&D HR Support

Job Description

Junior HRBP | Faurecia

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Faurecia, located in Bavans, France. Faurecia, operating as Forvia, is a leader in sustainable mobility technology, pioneering solutions for a better human experience. As an HR Business Partner, you will be crucial in supporting our R&D Center by developing people capabilities and attracting and retaining top engineering talent. Your work will directly contribute to business growth and organizational transformation within our international matrix structure.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Bavans, France
• Pay: EUR 40000–50000 yearly
• Mission: To support the R&D Center by developing people capabilities, attracting and retaining top engineering talent, and deploying global HR processes locally to support business growth and organizational transformation.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint

What You’ll Actually Do
• HR Advisory: Advise managers on employee relations matters, organizational changes, performance management, and career development, providing strategic and operational HR support across the employee lifecycle.
• Talent Acquisition Strategy: Develop and implement recruitment strategies to attract highly qualified engineering and technical talent, collaborating closely with hiring managers to understand workforce needs and coordinate with external recruitment partners when required.
• Talent and Succession Planning: Lead and support talent review and succession planning processes to identify key talent, high-potential employees, and critical succession pipelines, and drive the deployment of global Talent Management processes, ensuring consistent calibration and development planning.
• Development & Engagement: Identify learning and development needs and coordinate the implementation of global and local training initiatives, while also promoting employee engagement, diversity, inclusion, and retention initiatives that foster an inclusive and high-performing culture.
• HR Operations & Compliance: Support annual HR processes including performance reviews, salary review campaigns, workforce planning, and organizational reviews, ensuring compliance with French labor legislation, company policies, and HR governance standards.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor and analyze HR KPIs, including headcount and labor cost, providing meaningful insights to business leaders, and contributing to the continuous improvement of HR processes and change management initiatives.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience as an HR Business Partner or in a generalist HR role within an international and matrix organization, with solid experience in Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Performance Management, and Employee Relations.
• Skills: Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders, proven ability to build trusted partnerships, strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities, analytical mindset with experience using HR metrics, high level of intercultural awareness, proactive, solution-oriented, and customer-focused approach, and proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint). Fluent in French and English, both written and spoken (Minimum B2, ideally C1).
• Bonus: Experience supporting engineering, R&D, industrial, or technical populations, and experience in workforce planning, headcount, and labor cost controlling.