Leading diverse teams is your strength? You are open, flexible and keen on pushing new processes?
Then join our great HR organization at KWS Berlin GmbH as Lead (m/f/d) of a team of seven international HR Business Partners for West Europe. Your main responsibility in this role is to ensure the HR Business Partners deliver high quality consulting services in all strategic and operational HR issues.
This is a full-time, permanent position based in Berlin, Germany.
Your Responsibilities:
1. You lead a highly motivated and committed HR Business Partner team and develop it further.
2. You coordinate the HR Business Partners at a regional level during the personnel cost planning and forecasting process.
3. You solve complex issues in close cooperation with the HR Business Partners and manage the regional implementation of HR strategies and programs.
4. You act as an interface between the HR business partners and other functional leaders on knowledge-based topics.
5. You support the further development and implementation of a functional KWS-wide strategy and strategic priorities.
6. You also support the introduction and monitoring of functional KWS-wide policies and standards.
7. You ensure appropriate representation in local institutions in the region through the HR business partners.
8. You carry out improvement projects and allocate the appropriate resources.
Your Profile:
9. Academic degree, preferably in psychology, business administration, labor law or related fields
10. Several years of successful leadership experience
11. Many years of professional experience in management and HR in a globally operating industrial environment
12. Sound knowledge of HR and labor relations, ideally with international experience
13. Excellent customer orientation and entrepreneurial mindset
14. Outstanding analytical thinking, strategic understanding, and problem‑solving mentality
15. Strong stakeholder management skills, relationship and influencing skills with a high degree of diplomacy
16. Excellent communication skills; fluent in English (oral & written)
17. High mobility and flexibility (>40%)
Our Offer:
18. Working in an international, highly motivated and dynamic team with flat hierarchies.
19. The best of both worlds: KWS Berlin combines the security of a large, stable company with the passion of a start-up.
20. As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and vision - a culture that is also lived in practice, e.g. through an open and friendly work atmosphere.
21. Our location in the heart of Berlin Schöneberg is very modern, directly opposite a subway station and with secure car and bicycle parking.
22. We offer 30 days of vacation, flexible working hours with the option of mobile working, additional payments for vacation and Christmas, company pension scheme, JobRad and/or financial support for local transport tickets.
23. True to our motto “Make yourself grow”, we support the professional and personal development of our employees.
Use your potential and get started with us! We look forward to receiving your application via our online application system, SuccessFactors.