Senior HR Business Partner, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary (Prague, CZ)Verified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• Minimum 8 years experience in HR within a multinational, matrix organisation, including direct exposure to senior leadership teams
• Proven track record of leading HR across multiple countries, clusters or complex business units
• Demonstrated success in driving large-scale transformation and organisational change programmes
• Strong experience in talent strategy, succession planning, organisational design and workforce planning
• Ability to influence, challenge and partner senior business leaders, including Country Managers
• Strong commercial acumen with ability to translate business strategy into people strategy
• Strategic thinking with the ability to balance long-term agenda with operational delivery
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to operate in complex, multi-market environments
• High level of resilience, adaptability and decision-making confidence
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and drive change at pace
• Business fluency in English (mandatory)
• Professional fluency in Czech (mandatory)
• Additional language skills (Slovak and/or Hungarian) as an asset

What you’ll do

• Own and lead the HR strategy across the Czech, Slovakia and Hungary, ensuring alignment with business priorities and Area people agenda, with full accountability for delivery and impact.
• Act as a senior strategic advisor to Country Managers and Leadership Teams, shaping key business decisions related to organisational design, leadership capability, talent deployment and culture.
• Exercise decision-making authority on key people topics, including organisational structures, senior appointments (in alignment with governance), talent moves, and workforce prioritisation.
• Lead and own end-to-end transformation programmes across the cluster (including organisation redesign), ensuring effective execution, stakeholder alignment and sustainable outcomes.
• Drive and govern 3 market wide workforce planning and employment cost strategy, ensuring robust forecasting, financial alignment and proactive decision-making.
• Own the talent and succession agenda, ensuring strong pipelines for critical roles and actively developing leadership capability through coaching and targeted interventions.
• Partner with Reward to shape and implement market-relevant and sustainable reward strategies, influencing key decisions on compensation, incentives and job architecture.
• Champion culture and engagement across markets, leveraging people insights to design and implement targeted actions that improve employee experience and drive performance.
• Ensure effective and consistent delivery of HR operations and recruitment, operating in matrix HR delivery model – acting as partner for CoEs and GBS teams to ensure high quality and impact HR delivery for local organisations
• Own employee relations strategy across all markets, ensuring consistent, compliant and pragmatic handling of complex cases, including engagement with social partners where applicable.
• Drive execution of global and area HR initiatives, ensuring strong localisation, adoption and measurable business impact.

About the position

BAT is evolving at pace into a global multi-category business. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow™ by Building a Smokeless World. To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey! Tomorrow can’t wait, let’s shape it together! British American Tobacco Czech Republic has an exciting opportunity for a Senior HR Business Partner, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary in Prague, Czech

Benefits

• We offer a market leading annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility)
• Our range of benefits varies by country and includes diverse health plans, initiatives for work-life balance, transportation support, and a flexible holiday plan with additional incentives
• You'll have access to online learning platforms and personalized growth programs to nurture your leadership skills
• We prioritise continuous improvement within a transformative environment, preparing for ongoing changes