HR Lead - International

<p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>Sporty has been on a huge growth journey in 2025, and as such we are looking for a HR Lead - International to join the team. This individual will be responsible for leading a team of local HR professionals; ensuring the delivery of HR support within a rapidly evolving organisation. You will work closely with regional and global leadership, and help drive improvements across our reward, performance and manager development programmes. As a member of the HR leadership team, you will work closely with other regional HR leads to develop consistent standards and practices across markets - that enable business growth.</p> <p><em>*Will consider applications from candidates located in the EU or South Africa</em></p> <p><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></p> <p><strong>Regional HR Leadership and Business Partnering&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead, coach and develop a team of local HR professionals across Bulgaria, Spain, South Africa and the UK</li> <li>Ensure consistent operational HR standards, capability and delivery across all locations</li> <li>Partner with local leadership teams to provide commercially sound people support and act as the escalation point for complex people matters within the region</li> <li>Ensure all people practices align with local labour law and Sporty company values</li> </ul> <p><strong>Performance, Reward &amp; Progression</strong></p> <ul> <li>Alongside the HR leadership team; continuously improve key people milestones, including:</li> <ul> <li>Performance review cycles</li> <li>Promotions and progression frameworks</li> <li>Pay and bonus processes</li> </ul> </ul> <ul> <li>Work closely with the Global HR Director to:</li> <ul> <li>Develop and maintain role levelling frameworks</li> <li>Support salary benchmarking and market alignment</li> <li>Ensure regional application of global compensation philosophy</li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Manager Capability &amp; Training</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, develop and implement manager training programmes, with focus on:</li> <ul> <li>Performance management</li> <li>Feedback and development</li> <li>People decision-making and leadership behaviours</li> </ul> <li>Implement ongoing manager metrics to track and report on manager performance&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Systems &amp; Projects</strong></p> <ul> <li>Support HR Projects Lead on the implementation of a new HRIS; including the review and evolution of key people processes</li> <li>Represent regional needs in system design, rollout and adoption</li> <li>Drive change management and adoption across local HR, teams and managers</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What you'll bring</strong></p> <ul> <li>Significant experience in a senior HR Lead or HR Business Partner role, ideally in a high-growth international organisation&nbsp;</li> <li>Proven experience managing and developing distributed HR teams</li> <li>Strong grounding in performance management, ER and manager coaching</li> <li>Experience working with compensation, levelling or benchmarking frameworks</li> <li>Track record of delivering HR programmes in scaling or complex organisations</li> <li>Fluent Fluent in English, with excellent communication skills</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What's in it for you</strong></p> <ul> <li>Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability</li> <li>A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter</li> <li>28 days paid annual leave</li> <li>Flash bonuses</li> <li>Top of the line equipment</li> <li>Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div id="message-list_1765290593.382699" class="c-virtual_list__item" data-qa="virtual-list-item" data-item-key="1765290593.382699"> <div class="c-message_kit__background p-message_pane_message__message c-message_kit__message" data-qa="message_container" data-qa-unprocessed="false" data-qa-placeholder="false"> <div class="c-message_kit__hover" data-qa-hover="true"> <div class="c-message_kit__actions c-message_kit__actions--default"> <div class="c-message_kit__gutter"> <div class="c-message_kit__gutter__right" data-qa="message_content"> <div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <p class="p-rich_text_section">If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>