HR Generalist - Fixed Term Contract

Job Description

Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through its three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games.

What will you work on?

As an experienced HR Generalist on a maternity cover contract, you will provide essential support to employees and managers across multiple countries in the EMEA region.

How will you create impact?

• HR Operations: Manage day‑to‑day HR processes across the full employee lifecycle for designated EMEA countries, serving as the primary HR contact for employees and managers and ensuring consistent application of all procedures.
• Employee Relations – French Labour Law: Lead and manage day‑to‑day employee relations matters, applying strong knowledge of French labour law to handle contracts, disciplinary actions, and employee exits while escalating complex cases as needed.
• HR Data – Workday: Act as a Workday power user, owning all HR data to ensure accuracy and timeliness across all transactions, and supporting managers and employees with system‑related queries and reporting.
• Managerial Employee Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor to managers on HR policies, best practices, and daily people matters, while responding proactively to employee queries to ensure a positive and compliant employee experience.
• Cross‑Border Coordination: Partner with payroll, benefits providers, and local advisors across multiple countries to ensure seamless, accurate, and compliant HR service delivery for all cross‑border activities.

What are your skills and experience?

• Proven experience as an HR Generalist in an international or EMEA‑wide role.
• Solid expertise in French labour law.
• High proficiency with Workday.
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken).
• Strong ability to work independently, manage a diverse workload, and support stakeholders across multiple countries.
• A pragmatic, detail‑oriented, and solution‑focused mindset.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable

• Experience in a matrix organisation.
• Familiarity with other EMEA labour laws.

This is a 6‑9 month fixed‑term contract for a maternity cover. Spin Master works in a hybrid model with 4 days per week onsite.

What You Can Expect From Us

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast‑paced, hands‑on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision‑making; though our challenging start‑up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results‑driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team by email at and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.