People Advisor

Are you ready to shape the future of our People Partnering & Advisory team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment?

We’re on the lookout for a People Advisor to join our team supporting our Commercial & Sales teams.

As a People Advisor based in Lisbon, Portugal you’ll be the trusted partner for employees and managers, offering practical guidance on People team policies, compliance, and employee experience.

You’ll help us ensure our Lisbon hub is not just compliant - but a place where people genuinely thrive.

What fun awaits you:

• Supporting teams through the ins and outs of day-to-day people matters – no question too small, no challenge too big
• Partnering closely with the Commercial and sales teams to address people related challenges unique to fast-paced, target-driven environments
• Making sure Pleo’s policies and practices are applied fairly and consistently
• Playing a key role in fostering a healthy, transparent, and supportive culture
• Helping roll out exciting new people initiatives from onboarding to performance management
• Partnering with global and regional People teams to bring policies to life at the local level
  
  

The Bigger Picture: Your Role

As a People Advisor, you’ll be a go-to source of guidance and expertise for employees and managers across our Lisbon office, with a special focus on supporting our Commercial and Sales teams. You’ll ensure our People policies are properly applied, offer first-line employee relations support, and make sure we’re compliant with Portuguese labor laws and internal standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise employees and managers on Pleo’s People policies, processes, and best practices
• Partner with Managers in our Commercial and Sales teams to navigate performance, engagement, and team development needs specific to those functions.
• Manage employee relations issues, including conflict resolution, grievances, and early-stage disciplinary actions
• Provide guidance on Portuguese labor law and ensure local legal compliance
• Support performance and engagement initiatives, including probation and improvement plans
• Assist with policy implementation and help embed changes and new tools across the Lisbon office
• Serve as the first point of contact for day-to-day employee questions – from benefits to workplace concerns
• Work with the broader People team to track compliance, support reporting, and keep everything on the right side of policy
  
  

What You Bring to the Table

• Previous experience in a People Advisor or HR Generalist role, preferably supporting Commercial teams in a scale-up or multinational context
• Strong knowledge of Portuguese employment law and HR compliance practices
• Experience advising managers in high-performance, high-pressure environments on people matters
• Confidence in handling employee relations issues and leading sensitive conversations with professionalism and empathy
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills – you're someone leaders trust and employees feel safe turning to
• Organised, proactive, and collaborative – you work well across time zones and departments
• A passion for building inclusive, engaging workplaces where people and business can grow together
  
  

Show me the benefits!

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work
  
  

Why join us?

Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.

We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.

Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.

So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.

About Your Application

• Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join
• We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone
• We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs
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