HR Business Partner with Talent and Employee Relation Scope

Hapag-Lloyd AG; Województwo pomorskie; Hybrid; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Private life insurance

Annual bonus

Group life insurance

Cafeteria benefit system

Charity and volunteer initiatives

Learning management system

Hybrid work model

Green commuting allowance

Job summary

Hapag-Lloyd AG is hiring an HR Business Partner in a hybrid role to align HR strategy with business goals and support employee life cycle from hire to retire. You will partner with department leaders, manage performance processes, and ensure labor law compliance across Baltic regions.

The role emphasizes payroll administration in Baltics, data analysis for improvements, and promoting an engaging workplace culture within a global logistics environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in human resources management and related degree or equivalent.
• Knowledge of Polish labor law and general compliance.
• Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for HR topics.
• Team-oriented, independent, and good interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with department leaders to align HR strategies with business goals.
• Advise on organizational design, workforce planning, and performance management.
• Lead end-to-end employee lifecycle processes (hire to retire).
• Administer payroll in Baltics and ensure accurate employee records.

Skills

HR Strategy

Employee Lifecycle

Labor Law Knowledge

People Analytics

Stakeholder Management

Polish Language

English Communication

Education

HR/Business degree

Tools

Workday

Oracle

MS Office

Job description

What You'll Do

It is a hybrid position (HR BP with soft HR scope). HRBP acts as a strategic partner to business leaders to align HR strategy with organizational goals. This role is responsible for supporting daily human resources operations related to employee life cycle from hire to retire, ensuring compliance with labor laws, managing employee relations and coordinating HR projects and daily HR tasks.

Business related

• Partner with department leaders on to better understand business goals and translate them into people processes
• Advice on organizational design, workforce planning, performance management, competences analysis
• Point of contact/ business partner for specific department
• Lead performance management (PIP)
• Analyze HR data to recommend improvements and initiatives
• Monitor performance indicators (turnover, FTE, costs, absences, overtime, productivity, open positions, time to fill a vacancy and vacancy costs)

Operational

• Manage end-to-end employee lifecycle process (hiring, onboarding, offboarding)
• Administration of HR systems
• Maintain compliance with labor laws and internal policies
• Act as point of entry for administrative HR matters
• Administrator of payroll process in Baltics countries
• Ensure accurate maintenance of employee records
• Handle employee relations cases

HR Culture, Engagement, Development

• Coordinate learning events and local learning platform
• Promote positive and transparent workplace culture by organizing events and initiatives for employees
• Responsible for appraisals process GSD
• Responsible for HR projects ( CSRD reporting)

What Makes You A Fit

• Knowledge and experience of Human Resource Management with relevant degree or equivalent qualification with verifiable experience
• Knowledge of Polish labor law
• Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for various HR topics
• Strong commitment and ambition to familiarize quickly with new areas and subjects
• Team-oriented, independent and good interpersonal skills
• Excellent service attitude and organizational skills
• Accuracy and good attention to detail
• Good knowledge of user application systems MS Office ( Workday/Oracle, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.)
• Good command of written and spoken Polish and English

What We Offer You

Area North is a diversified Hapag-Lloyd Area covering for Scandinavian and Baltic countries with a mixture of own offices and agencies. Area’s main office is located in a new modern premises at Alchemia in Gdańsk, hosting other international companies and providing an agile international environment, which fits well to the Hapag-Lloyd strategy.

We offer:

• Private medical care (Medicover)
• Private life insurance (Alianz)
• Attractive annual bonus (depending on company performance results)
• Group life insurance and employee capital plan (PPK)
• Cafeteria benefit system (cinema tickets, vouchers etc.)
• Charity and volunteer initiatives
• Modern and well-connected office (Alchemia complex in Gdansk Oliwa)
• Internal learning management system
• Flexible working hours and home office possibility (hybrid work model)
• Green commuting allowance

About Us

Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies, connecting businesses and people across more than 600 ports worldwide. With a fleet of over 300 modern container ships and a vessel capacity of 2.5 million TEU, we keep global trade moving reliably every day.

Our global network spans 139 countries, 396 offices and a growing portfolio of terminal and infrastructure investments. This scale enables us to deliver consistent, high-quality service across continents and to support our customers in even the most complex supply chains.

When you join us, you become part of more than 19,600 colleagues working across borders, functions and cultures, to not only deliver quality for our customers, but to create innovation and opportunities across roles, regions and perspectives.

We believe that every exploration is a chance to grow, and every port is a place to belong. Your journey, our horizon.