Senior HR Business Partner

Brings more than 25 years of HR experience across interim mandates and permanent leadership roles, covering strategic and operational human resources management in international, fast-growing and transformation-driven environments

Has extensive expertise in HR business partnering, employee lifecycle management, labor relations and works council cooperation, including negotiations on company agreements and support for complex staffing and restructuring measures

Demonstrates strong leadership in building and stabilizing HR organizations, managing shared services, payroll, HR governance and SOPs, while driving process optimization, digitalization and international HR transformation projects

Leadership and employee support for the North and West regions with approx. 350 employees

Support throughout the entire employee lifecycle

Introduction of a company-wide compensation system

Close support of a nationwide integration and transformation project: staffing, transfers, reclassifications, separations

Collaboration with the works council

Management of local administration and payroll at two sites

Co-design of HR processes and governance

Professional advice & coaching of employees in the HR SSC Germany

Management of various international projects with HR relevance (e.g. digitization of personnel files, driver's license checks, process adjustments with the works council)

Works council activities (individual personnel measures and negotiation of works agreements)

Creation of HR governance for project and capacity planning as well as process and knowledge documentation (SOPs)

Support throughout the complete employee lifecycle

Strategic consulting for management and the first management level

Ad-hoc evaluations and reports of HR KPIs (e.g. ESG/ CSRD)

Concept development for various HR topics; process adjustments (e.g. absence management, leadership onboarding, HR reporting agenda)

Works council activities, negotiation/ updating of works agreements; collective labor law (IG Metall)

Stabilization and management of the local HR team and interface to central group HR

Global strategic and operational responsibility for the HR department and Internal Services with 15 employees as well as functional responsibility for 3 employees in the UK

Development and establishment of a group-wide international HR strategy and organization

Initiation and management of projects for organizational and cultural development/ change management

Creation and implementation of HR governance (SOPs) along the employee lifecycle

Support of national and international managers and employees in all HR-related matters

Analysis & adjustment of processes as well as digitization in group-wide, international HR work

Establishment of group-wide HR controlling

Initiation, management and collaboration in group-wide projects with HR relevance (including establishment of a group-wide training agenda and introduction of a learning management system, re-design of bonus model, setup of employer communication, post merger integration, global mobility tax, selection & payroll outsourcing)