Human Resources Director / Business Partner

Morgan Latif | B Corp™; Bremen; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Latif, a specialist leadership search & development consultancy, seeks an HR Director for a major European business. The role leads transformation, partnering with senior leaders to design the organization, build capability, and drive culture change in a complex, international matrix environment.

Fluency in German and English is required. This is a high-visibility appointment focused on shaping leadership, governance, and commercial capability across the region.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strategic and operational HR experience in international organisations.
• Senior HR Business Partner / HR Director experience with executive leadership.
• Experience leading organisational, commercial and cultural transformation.
• Experience supporting commercial organisations and sales capability development.
• Strong organisational design, talent and succession planning experience.
• Experience within an international matrix and COE-led HR model.
• Strong employee relations experience in a complex European environment.
• Experience with Workday or comparable HR systems.
• A hands-on, pragmatic leadership style with influencing and coaching capability.
• Fluent German and English.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Managing Director and leadership team to shape the future operating model.
• Drive organisational transformation and build leadership capabilities.
• Strengthen commercial capabilities and shift to solution selling.
• Lead organisational design, succession planning and culture change.
• Embed HR programmes and drive Workday adoption with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with employee representatives through change.

Skills

Strategic HR

Executive leadership

Change management

Sales capability development

Organisational design

Talent succession

Employee relations

Matrix organization experience

COE-led HR model

Influencing & coaching

German & English

Tools

Workday

Job description

Morgan Latif is a specialist leadership search & development consultancy. We partner with clients across the Medical & Dental Technology, Packaging, Consumer, and Industrial Technology sectors to support their transformation and diversity objectives. Our mission is to combine traditional recruitment and coaching methodologies with innovative technology to deliver tailored solutions to both clients and candidates.

Position Overview

Morgan Latif is partnering with a leading international industrial organisation to appoint an HR Director for one of its key European businesses.

The organisation is undergoing a significant period of business and organisational transformation, creating an opportunity for an experienced HR leader to help shape its future structure, capabilities and culture.

This is a highly visible transformation mandate requiring a commercially minded and hands on HR leader who can combine strategic business partnering with strong execution, organisational development and change leadership.

The Challenge

The successful candidate will play a central role in shaping the future organisation, with key priorities including:

• Partnering with and challenging the Managing Director and leadership team
• Supporting the organisational transformation and future operating model
• Strengthening commercial capabilities, including the shift from product to solution selling
• Driving organisational design, succession planning and leadership development
• Leading cultural change, engagement and organisational capability building
• Embedding Group HR programmes and driving further Workday adoption
• Partnering effectively with employee representative bodies through continued change
• Leading and developing the local HR team

Candidate Profile

We are interested in speaking with established HR leaders who can demonstrate:

• 10+ years of strategic and operational HR experience within international organisations
• Senior HR Business Partner / HR Director experience partnering with executive leadership
• Strong experience leading organisational, commercial and cultural transformation
• Experience supporting commercial organisations and sales capability development
• Strong organisational design, talent and succession planning experience
• Experience within an international matrix and COE-led HR model
• Strong employee relations experience within a complex European environment
• Experience with Workday or comparable HR systems
• A hands on, pragmatic leadership style with strong influencing and coaching capability
• Fluent German and English

The successful candidate will be a pragmatic and resilient change leader who enjoys working in an evolving environment and can bring structure, pace and clarity while building strong relationships across both the local organisation and wider international Group.

This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in reshaping an established organisation, strengthening its leadership and commercial capabilities and helping build the culture required for its next phase.