HR Country Specialist

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 26 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.

Your Mission

We are looking for an HR Country Specialist (Poland) to join the People team at BlaBlaCar. Working closely with the Management team in Poland, your role will be to implement the HR strategy in Poland, within your scope of responsibilities. You will be reporting to Dorine Jaouen the HR Regional Lead and working with a team of 2 other HR Country Specialists (Brazil and Ukraine). The People team overall is composed of around 35 employees.

Your responsibilities:

• HR

• With the support of our local HR & Engagement intern, that you’ll be pleased to manage:

• Monitor and ensure compliance with local labor laws and staff regulations

• Partner effectively with managers to understand their priorities and provide expert advice and innovative solutions on all aspects of human resources policy issues

• Provide effective guidance and support to all employees on employee relations, compensation/benefits, and general HR issues

• Adapt existing global policies and procedures to the requirements of local legal law (creating new one according to the needs)

• Support the deployment of global policies locally (e.g BlaBlaNomad; Parental leave) & tools (e.g Ticketing tool) where applicable

• Support Employee onboarding & offboarding

• Prepare contracts and amendments

• Manage staff attendance, leaves and prepare staff Payroll accordingly

• Update HR data in the HRIS - Workday

• Manage Staff monthly HR Tracking Sheets

• Confidentially and securely maintain records of all HR information

• Engagement

• Organize local events/initiatives to keep employees engaged

• Support the deployment of global initiatives locally (e.g Impact Day, Be The Member Day ..)

• Send regular communications on proposed initiatives

• Striving to continuously improve office conditions and level of comfort

• Office Administration

• Cooperation with suppliers: finding providers for the local office needs and managing the relationship including contract, requisitions creating, invoices gathering

• Supporting employees with supplies requests

• Expenses tracking and budget preparation

• Managing courier delivery within country and abroad, office relocations

• Coordination of IT equipment stock, contact person for local IT management (servers, switches, IT providers, all kinds of equipment checks)

Your qualifications:

• At least 3 years of experience as an HR admin officer
• Experience in HR policies and practices
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of Workday is a strong advantage
• Excellent communication skills
• Thriving in a collaborative, fast-growing and innovative environment
• Ability to take ownership, aligned with business priorities
• Full working proficiency in English and Polish
• Experience with employment of foreigners (legal matters) is a nice to have
• Fit with our BlaBlaPrinciples

What we have to offer:

• 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity leaves
• Financial support for home office equipment (2000 PLN)
• Minimum 20 days holidays per year (based on work experience)
• Local meal plan policy (320 PLN/month)
• Public transport (50 PLN/month)
• Multisport membership
• Private health insurance (Allianz)
• Relocation package and visa support
• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
• Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs
• Employee Stock ownership plan
• Regular team building events
• Mental health support through Moka.care
• 1 day off per year to test our product
• 1 day per year for social engagements with non-profits

Interested in joining the ride?

• a 45-min video-call with Marieta Tonoyan our Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• a 45-min with Weronika Korzewska (HR country specialist) and Dorine JAOUEN (HR Regional Lead, your future manager), to deep dive into your HR skills

• a fully remote exercise to evaluate your hard skills, including a 30-min presentation to key stakeholders + questions/answers

• a 30-min video-call with Olgierd Szylejko, our Head of Central Eastern Europe for final validation

Not sure yet? Check out our 100 reasons to join BlaBlaCar!

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application.