People & Legal Manager

Location: Italy / Hybrid

About

They are a fast-growing European healthtech company entering an exciting phase of international growth. As the organisation expands across multiple markets, they are looking for a hands-on People & Legal Manager to build the people infrastructure required to support this growth.

Key Responsibilities

- Own and coordinate the recruitment process across the company, with a particular focus on technical, commercial and business critical hires across Europe.

- Build and maintain an effective recruitment pipeline, working with hiring managers, recruiters and external search firms where appropriate.

- Define appropriate employment and contractual frameworks across different European and international jurisdictions, including employees, contractors and, where appropriate, EOR solutions.

- Coordinate employment agreements, consultancy agreements, offer letters, amendments, onboarding and offboarding documentation.

- Develop and maintain the Company's HR policies, procedures and employee handbook, ensuring they evolve appropriately as the organisation scales.

- Design and benchmark compensation packages, including fixed compensation, performance bonuses, benefits and other incentive structures.

- Support the design, implementation and administration of ESOP/stock option and other equity incentive plans, working closely with senior leadership, Finance and external advisors.

- Support annual compensation reviews, promotions, role changes and organisational planning.





- Work closely with Finance and Operations on payroll inputs, workforce budgeting and headcount forecasting.

- Act as the main internal interface with employment lawyers, corporate lawyers and other external legal advisors, coordinating requests, documentation and follow-up.

- Support the senior leadership team on selected legal and operational matters, working closely with external advisors where required.

Requirements

- 3–5 years of experience in People/HR, People Operations, HR Business Partner, employment/legal operations or a similarly broad role.

- Experience managing recruitment processes, ideally including technical and senior business profiles.

- Good understanding of employment contracts, compensation structures and HR policies.

- Exposure to international hiring and employment arrangements across multiple European countries.

- Comfortable working with external lawyers and translating legal advice into practical internal actions; a legal background or previous exposure to employment/corporate law is a strong plus, but qualification as a lawyer is not required.

- Highly organised, pragmatic and able to manage multiple workstreams directly rather than relying on large support functions.

- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with both senior executives and employees.

- Fluent in English, additional languages would be advantageous.

- Experience in a startup, scale-up or technology company is strongly preferred.

📌 People & Legal Manager (Roma)
🏢 Barrington James
📍 Roma