Senior Human Resources Manager –Tunisia

Bulgin is widely recognised as a leading manufacturer of environmentally sealed connectors and components. With over 95 years of experience in the industry, Bulgin continues to innovate and develop products and services to cater for its global customer base across a variety of markets. Due to an exciting phase of growth we are looking for an HRBP to join our busy HR team in Tunisia.

The role

This position forms part of the local senior management and HR team to support the delivery and embedment of our group HR & People Strategies. The purpose of this senior management role is to lead and manage Human Resources services for the Tunis Bulgin site, ensuring consistency with group HR Strategy and in line with local best practices. The role will cover all generalist aspects of HR whilst initially focusing on developing talent management, performance and recognition programmes.

The Senior HR Manager will lead HR strategic Initiatives and objectives that will support an employee-oriented high-performance culture that emphases quality, productivity, goal attainment.

The role requires a versatile, diverse and experienced HR generalist who has a proven successful record of leading and delivering all aspects of HR and people management programmes with dedication and passion, whilst keeping abreast with changes in local employment legislation to ensure compliance. Experience of working as part of a Global HR function is highly desirable.

The Senior HRM will be a highly confidential individual with proven experience of business partnering at an executive level (including C-suite).

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the Tunisia key people strategies (Talent management, performance management, reward and recognition and employee engagement) aligned to the business objectives and global HR strategic initiatives.
• Create and execute HR plans to ensure global HR strategies are executed effectively
• Work with UK HRBP to regularly review the company’s talent management processes within the business areas, including performance/potential management, resource and succession planning.
• Where necessary, work in partnership on projects to aid continuous improvement and implement improvement programmes e.g. changes to working practices, organisation changes and business “excellence” or lean programmes.
• Manage and develop a small HR department to ensure quality service and advice are provided in line with best practice.
• Liaise with Directors and Managers to understand their HR requirements and ensure they are fully informed of the corporate HR strategy.
• Forming strong relationships with the management team to be able to challenge and coach in a high-performance environment.
• Work with the General Manager and HR Operations Manager to ensure good communications with the site union.

Qualification and experience

• Proven track record as a HR generalist in a senior role (7+ years), ideally gained within Engineering / Manufacturing industries.
• Strong commercial acumen
• People management experience is essential to mentor and develop existing HR team.
• Formal HRM qualification
• Experience of designing and delivering learning and development and talent management programmes
• Excellent Knowledge of local employment law
• Experience of report writing utilising excel, word and power point
• Ability to communicate at all levels
• Experience of using HR Information Systems (ideally sage)
• Problem solving skills
• Recruitment and Selection experience
• Ability to innovate to create and implement continuous improvement initiatives
• Experience of designing and writing HR policies, procedures, offers and contracts of employment
• Knowledge of Tunisian payroll
• Experience of using and developing HRIS systems (ideally sage)

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be a proactive and self-managed individual who works well as part of a team and on their own initiative. They will have good attention to detail with excellent communication skills. Experience of working as part of a global HR team is highly desirable.

What we offer

We have significant growth plans and are seeking talented individuals to enhance our capabilities. There has never been a better time to join us! We can offer you the opportunity to further your career working alongside some of the leading industry experts. We offer a collaborative and innovative working culture alongside a competitive salary and benefits package.

• If you and feel you have the required skills and experience to be our new Senior HRM – Tunisia, we are excited to hear from you!

Bulgin is an international company and English is our business language. Please send your application and CV in English to