People Project Lead

About the role

We're looking for a People Project Lead to join our People Team in Lisbon. In this role, you'll play a key part in driving People initiatives forward, ensuring great ideas translate into meaningful results. You'll be the person who connects the dots, brings stakeholders together, and keeps projects moving. From setting clear timelines to navigating challenges and ensuring accountability, you'll help us deliver People projects that make a real difference. Working closely with colleagues across People, IT, Finance and Legal, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to how we improve our ways of working and deliver impact across the organisation.

What you’ll do

• Lead People projects from start to finish: Take ownership of planning, coordinating and delivering People initiatives, translating ideas into clear objectives, actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Improve and optimise People processes: Review existing processes, identify inefficiencies and implement practical improvements to further streamline workflows and strengthen People operations.
• Build stakeholder alignment: Work closely with teams across People, IT, Finance and Legal, fostering collaboration, managing expectations and ensuring clear, transparent communication throughout projects.
• Document and standardise ways of working: Create, maintain and improve process documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and guidelines to ensure consistency, clarity and efficiency across People operations.
• Navigate and drive change: Lead projects through organisational change, navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities and resistance while engaging stakeholders and supporting successful adoption.
• Drive continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve efficiency and leverage AI tools and technologies to strengthen People operations and ways of working.

What you’ll bring

We're looking for someone who combines strong project management capabilities with a solid understanding of People operations and a genuine passion for getting things done.

• 2+ years of experience in Project Management: A proven ability to coordinate and deliver projects, manage competing priorities and keep initiatives on track.
• HR Operations experience: An understanding of People processes and the operational realities of working within an HR environment.
• Fluency in English to a professional business level, both spoken and written.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and collaboration: You build positive relationships across teams, communicate clearly, manage expectations and bring different perspectives together to drive alignment.
• A proactive, hands-on mindset with ownership and accountability: You take initiative, work independently and follow through on commitments to deliver results.
• Problem-solving, decision-making and continuous improvement: You approach challenges pragmatically, make informed decisions and proactively identify ways to improve processes and ways of working.
• Change management and adaptability: You have experience navigating and supporting organisational change, bringing stakeholders along, managing resistance and maintaining momentum in evolving environments.

Where you'll be

This position is a hybrid role based in Lisbon, Portugal that requires working a fixed 2 days per week in our office.