Job Description
Role Summary
Orchestrate and enable global HR strategy execution, energizing teams and ensuring the cadence and reporting that turn priorities into results. As HR Transformation Project Manager (m/f/d), you are responsible for ensuring that MANN+HUMMEL’s global HR priorities are translated into consistent execution. You operate at the intersection of strategy, governance, and delivery, providing structure, transparency, and momentum across complex HR initiatives. Working closely with Senior HR leadership and global stakeholders, you ensure that priorities are aligned, progress is visible, and transformation topics are driven through to completion, even in dynamic and partially ambiguous environments.
Your Challenge
1. Orchestrate and govern the execution of global HR strategic and operational initiatives within the SPEED methodology (OKR-based), managing the six month sprint cadence, transition phases and monthly progress routines
2. Ensure a reliable, systematic approach for reporting on objectives, milestones, progress, and for identifying risks
3. Proactively bring identified risks, decision points, and communication needs and support timely escalations where required
4. Align, track, and report on HR initiatives and their required HR capacity in close collaboration with senior HR leadership and key stakeholders
5. Prepare the annual HR Senior Leadership Team Offsite to align HR strategy with business priorities
6. Lead or support selected HR Transformation projects and initiatives
Your Profile
7. Education: A degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Psychology, Industrial Engineering, Management, or a related field is preferred. More important than formal education are your mindset, execution strength, and experience in driving change and transformation.
8. Professional Experience: You bring experience from execution-driven environments such as HR transformation, strategy implementation, program or project management, consulting, or comparable roles where coordination, alignment, and delivery were critical success factors. This role is also suitable for professionals who have already taken ownership of complex initiatives and are ready to step into a broader, more global responsibility.
9. Expertise:Ability to quickly grasp complex organizational contexts and translate them into clear structures and actionable next stepsProven strength in maintaining oversight across multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and prioritiesHigh level of reliability in planning, follow-up, and deliveryConfidence in navigating governance structures and senior stakeholder expectations
10. Languages: Fluency in English and German (written and spoken) is mandatory
11. Personality:Strong communicator who is comfortable interacting with senior stakeholders in demanding environmentsHighly self-organized, disciplined, and able to manage complexity independentlyPragmatic and solution-oriented, with a clear focus on outcomes rather than conceptsEmpathetic in approach, yet able to provide clarity, challenge assumptions, and drive alignment when neededResilient and focused, able to maintain momentum and direction even under pressure or ambiguityWillingness to travel: Up to 10%
Diversity and inclusion are part of our DNA. We filter exclusively for the best talent. We therefore welcome applications from all people regardless of age, gender, origin, ancestry, disability, or other legally protected grounds.
Social Benefits
12. You work with a high degree of autonomy and scope for decision-making
13. Performance-related pay and extensive social benefits
14. Trust-based working hours (depending on the position) plus 30 days' holiday
15. Everyone has talent: our talent management process supports you in your professional development
16. In-house company restaurant
17. Places at a private daycare centre in the immediate vicinity (both U3 and Ü3 places)
18. A modern company pension scheme to supplement your statutory pension insurance
19. Additional private health insurance (e.g. supplementary dental insurance)
20. A large number of discounts on our Corporate Benefits Portal (holiday trips, fashion, insurance, etc.). e.g. supplementary dental insurance)
21. Mobility offers: Subsidy for the Deutschlandticket, JobRad leasing and e-charging columns in the free multi-storey car park with the company's own charging tariff
Are you full of ideas? Are you keen to take on responsibility and really achieve something? Then our doors are open to you. This company lives out its values, gives people the freedom to use their own initiative, and offers many development exciting opportunities and many exciting projects – all of which awaits you here.