HR Projects Partner EMEA – Integration

HARMAN International

HR Projects Partner EMEA guiding integrations between corporate and local HR teams in the United Kingdom. Supporting HR strategies and ensuring compliance across multiple HR disciplines.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeWorthing • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the single EMEA point of contact between HARMAN Corporate HR Integration Leads and local HR delivery teams.
Translate global integration requirements into clear, actionable local inputs across EMEA.
Ensure clarity around ownership, timelines, dependencies, and readiness across HR integration workstreams.
Partner with global and local HR teams to plan and coordinate people-related integration activity across key HR areas, including benefits, contracts, policies, communications, payroll, reward, Talent Acquisition, HR systems (e.g. Workday), and time & attendance.
Ensure integration activities are properly sequenced and interconnected, with local requirements clearly understood.
Track EMEA progress, risks, and overall readiness, escalating issues where needed to maintain momentum.
Provide guidance on UK and EU employment-law considerations relevant to integration activity.
Support the assessment and management of TUPE / business transfers and collective consultation requirements, including preparation of consultation and employee information materials.
Ensure all integration decisions comply with local legislation, collective agreements, and internal governance frameworks.
Act as the connector between Corporate HR and the EMEA Sound United HR team, ensuring clarity of roles, ownership, and accountability.
Facilitate alignment across HR disciplines and manage escalations where decisions span multiple teams.
Provide clear updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to the EMEA HR Director to support informed decision-making.
Support coordinated employee communication and change activity throughout integration phases.
Work with HR and business stakeholders to ensure a consistent and transparent employee experience across impacted populations.
Identify employee-related risks (engagement, retention, experience) and work with HR partners to address them.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience delivering HR integration, transformation, or complex HR projects in a multi-country or EMEA environment.
Strong working knowledge of UK and EU employment law, including TUPE/business transfers and collective consultation.
Experience acting as a connector between global and local teams, translating strategy into practical local delivery.
Confidence coordinating across multiple HR disciplines (COEs, Shared Services, local HR) without direct line ownership.
Excellent stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to manage ambiguity, surface risks, and drive alignment.
Solid project-coordination skills, including sequencing work, tracking dependencies, and maintaining delivery readiness.
Experience working with HR systems and data (Workday or similar) during periods of change.
Fluency in English; additional European languages are a strong advantage.

Benefits

Comp & perks

You are going to work in an international team within a friendly global working atmosphere.
HARMAN offers a diverse and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities, professional training and competitive market base compensation.
Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University's business and leadership academies.
Internal talent management leadership acceleration programs.
“Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
Top-notch employee discounts on world class HARMAN products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, Bowers & Wilkins, AKG etc.)
A unique opportunity to contribute to drive revenue growth and nurture strategic trust-based relationships.

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Hard Skills & Tools

HR integrationHR transformationproject coordinationstakeholder managementrisk assessmentemployee communicationchange managementdata management

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadership