HR Business Partner
Wallapop
| Company | Wallapop |
| Category | HR & Recruiting |
| Location | Barcelona |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 23 Nov 2022 |
| Last verified | 10 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Wallapop is a Barcelona based scale-up driven by the purpose to empower people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us. 💫
Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a catalogue of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale & trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience & reach. 🌱 Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.
The Challenge 🧩
Driving organizational excellence and strategic evolution within a highly dynamic environment. The core mission is to act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, focused on optimizing our structures, fostering internal talent mobility, and building highly scalable, effective teams.
In this role, you will play a pivotal role in anchoring and supporting the leadership team while proactively exploring innovative ways to leverage technology and automation (such as AI) to reshape and elevate our organization across diverse operational speeds and cultures.
What You Will Do 👇
Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with business leaders to understand objectives and challenges, offering trusted advice and ensuring the People strategy directly supports the business unit's goals.
Organizational Design & Change Management: Lead structural design efforts, team sizing evaluations, and organizational optimization initiatives, while guiding leadership and teams through subsequent structural evolutions to ensure high alignment and minimize operational disruption.
Talent Growth & Succession Planning: Own and drive frameworks for critical talent identification, high-potential development programs, and robust succession planning for key leadership roles to encourage long-term internal mobility.
Performance Culture: Lead the performance review architecture within the assigned areas, coaching managers on goal-setting, continuous feedback, and development planning to sustain a high-performance culture.
HR Metrics & Predictive Insights: Leverage People Analytics to diagnose organizational health, identify retention risks, and proactively propose data-backed structural optimizations to business leaders.
Talent Acquisition Alignment: Partner with hiring managers and the Talent Acquisition team to define future capability gaps and ensure recruitment plans match shifting business priorities.
Compensation & Governance: Oversee the compensation and promotion review cycles in accordance with internal policies and market benchmarks, ensuring consistency, fairness, and strict budget alignment.
Engagement & Team Effectiveness: Analyze employee engagement data and collaborate with leaders to design and implement actionable plans that improve sentiment, collaboration, and team effectiveness.
Strategic Legal Advisory: Act as a strategic advisor for managers on complex labor relations and employment matters, ensuring practices align with labor laws, while partnering with the People Operations team for administrative and transactional execution.
Project Leadership: Lead or contribute to cross-functional People initiatives—such as performance architecture, rewards programs, and leadership enablement tracking—driving continuous improvement in global People practices.
What We’re Looking For 🔍
Experience: 5+ years of experience as an HRBP or People Partner, preferably within international tech environments, digital hubs, or mature corporate structures.
Strategic Autonomy: A proven track record of complete ownership, design, and execution of talent frameworks or organizational design initiatives from scratch, without requiring close supervision.
Change Management & Leadership Partnering