HR Services Specialist – French Speaker

Thales is hiring an HR Services Specialist – French Speaker. Level rates it ; you can apply on Thales.

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Provide HR shared services and operational support for French-speaking employees across the organization.

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Location: PSS – Lisbon (Central), Portugal

At Thales, you’ll join our HR Shared Service Center, supporting employees and managers across different countries while helping deliver a consistent, high-quality employee experience — every single day.

French language skills are required to support HR activities for our organization in France.

Responsabilities:

Act as the first point of contact for employees providing support on a wide range of HR topics with a people-first approach.
Own and support the end-to-end employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring a smooth and positive experience.
Maintain and update HR systems and employee data, ensuring accuracy, compliance and high data quality standards.
Support international HR operations, including onboarding, mobility processes and day-to-day HR administration.
Prepare and manage HR documentation (contracts, letters, reports) in a timely and accurate manner.
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and HR projects, helping optimize processes and enhance employee experience.

Requirements:

A degree in HR, Management or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience in HR operations.
Fluency in French and English (mandatory).
Strong communication skills, with the ability to interact confidently and empathetically with different stakeholders.
A detail-oriented and structured mindset, with the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently.
A proactive, adaptable and solution-driven attitude in a fast-paced, international environment.
Experience with tools like Workday or ServiceNow is a plus.

About Thales:
The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.

For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your contact Cláudia Gaio is looking forward to meet you. Below you can Apply now to our role.

Cláudia Gaio – Talent Acquisition Partner

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How we rate this

HR Services Specialist – French Speaker at Thales rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

HR Services Specialist – French Speaker is an open job at Thales.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in PSS – Lisbon (Central).
The job was posted on May 25, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Thales. Apply on Thales

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Hr OperationsEmployee LifecycleFrench LanguageWorkdayServiceNow

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Pay

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