PIP Global Safety is one of the world's leading providers and manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE), trusted by workers and safety professionals across all industries and continents. With a 40‑year legacy of innovation, quality, and responsiveness, we deliver comprehensive head‑to‑toe protection through a powerful portfolio of brands.
We are united by a common purpose: protecting workers around the world by providing solutions that ensure safety, enhance performance, and support well‑being. Guided by our core values-integrity, innovation, accountability, tenacity, and customer focus-we are building a safer and more sustainable future. At PIP Global Safety, we protect people and the planet, one innovation at a time.
We are doubling our global footprint through the transformative acquisition of established brands such as North, Howard Leight, Miller, Fibre‑Metal, Oliver, Salisbury, and more, bringing even greater innovation, expertise, and reach to our customers worldwide.
Join a fast‑growing global organization where protection is more than a product-it is our purpose and our passion.
We are looking for an HR Generalist M/F/X to join our team in Villepinte (93) or in Villers-Cotterets (02) on permanent contract, full time. It's an individual contributor role without management of a team.
The HR Generalist M/F/X will act as strategic HR Business Partner for PIP employees based at France and some other EMEA countries. He or She will act as the main HR contact, aligning people strategies with business objectives.
He or She will lead the annual people cycle, including workforce planning, performance, talent reviews, and rewards. He or she will coach leaders on organization design, change management, and leadership effectiveness. He or she will drive talent development, performance calibration, early careers, and internal mobility.
He or she will manage employee relations and ensure compliance with local labor regulations. He or she will be partner on compensation, benefits, and HR policy localization. He or she will support end-to-end talent acquisition with leaders and recruiters. He or she will oversee external HR vendors and HR process governance.
He or she will deliver HR analytics, data integrity, audits, and regional change projects.
Key responsibilities for this role :
1) Strategic HR Business Partnering :
- Serve as primary HR point of contact for leaders and employees across different sites and countries under scope; diagnose people's needs and craft solutions that enable business outcomes.
- Drive annual people cycle: headcount planning, performance & development, succession and talent reviews, engagement, merit/bonus cycle coordination with Total Rewards.
- Coach leaders on organization design, change management, team health, and leadership effectiveness.
2) Talent, Performance & Development:
- Facilitate performance calibration; build manager capability for feedback, goal setting, and growth plans.
- Partner with L&D to identify regional capability gaps; deploy scalable development initiatives and leadership programs.
- Lead early careers and internal mobility actions in region; promote diverse slates and equitable processes.
3) Employee Relations & Culture:
- Manage day-to-day employee relations matters (policy guidance, investigations where applicable, absence/attendance, disciplinary and grievance handling) in compliance with country/site regulations.
- Monitor engagement insights; co-create action plans with leaders to strengthen inclusion, wellbeing, and retention.
- Serve as culture custodian-embed values, recognition, and change readiness.
- Support leaders and organization in labor relations. management (work councils, unions,..) and specific labor relations requests.
4) Rewards, Benefits & Policy Enablement:
- Partner with Total Rewards on compensation benchmarking, salary reviews, offers, and pay-for performance governance.
- Localize and socialize HR policies and handbooks for the countries/sites under his/her management; ensure compliance and simplicity.
- Support benefits vendor reviews and employee communications.
5) Talent Acquisition:
- Identify and manage the talent acquisition need for different teams and organizations, being a supporting partner for the leaders and hiring managers.
- Work closely with the internal and external agencies, recruiters, talent acquisition specialists, corporate Talent acquisition teams, etc. to provide the necessary talent resources according to business needs.
- Support in an active manner the Talent Acquisition processes, specially with all the need linked to roles that require French speaking professionals.
6) Vendor & Process Governance (External HR Services):
- Own the relationship with the external HR services provider handling employment contracts, amendments, onboarding documentation, offboarding paperwork, letters, and routine HR admin.
- Govern SLAs, accuracy, timeliness, and compliance; drive continuous improvement and root-cause fixes.
- Maintain clear RACI with the vendor, Payroll, and internal stakeholders; manage escalations.
7) Data, Systems & Reporting:
- Ensure data integrity in HRIS and any other systems (ADP Lyric, Time and attendance).
- Analyze workforce metrics (headcount, attrition, time-to-fill, absence, diversity mix, engagement) and translate insights into actions.
- Maintain documentation for audits; uphold GDPR and country-specific privacy requirements.
8) Projects & Change:
- Lead or contribute to regional HR projects (org changes, integrations, policy refreshes, tech rollouts, Training campaigns, etc).
- Design change plans and communications; measure adoption and impact.
Skills requirements for this role :
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in HR with 5 years of experience in similar roles in an international company
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills.
- Strategic and analytical thinking to interpret data and market trends.
- Able to speak French and English, (valuable other European languages).