HR Service Center Associate with German (on-site)

Abbott; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus potential

Private medical care

Life insurance

Stock purchase plan

Flexible working opportunities

Job summary

Abbott in Warsaw is seeking an HR Service Center Associate fluent in German to join our multilingual team onsite in Mokotów. You will handle HR inquiries from Abbott employees worldwide using at least two channels, with German and English as mandatory languages.

The role focuses on high-volume, multi-channel service, ensuring accurate and timely responses while upholding Abbott's compliance standards. A Bachelor’s degree and previous HR or customer service experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Administration, Systems, Communications, Translation and Interpretation or similar.
• Languages: Fluent English and German; additional European languages are a strong asset.
• Experience in Human Resources and/or Customer Service across channels (phone, email, chat).
• Experience with multi-channel customer service platforms (phone, email, chat).
• Familiarity with customer management tools (Salesforce) and ERP tools/people management software (Workday).

Responsibilities

• Handle HR inquiries from Abbott employees globally via at least two channels.
• Communicate in German and English; manage high-volume service with accuracy.
• Stay up-to-date with onboarding, HR processes, and related trainings.
• Provide timely, professional responses and escalate when needed.
• Identify roadblocks and suggest improvements to management.

Skills

Fluent English

Fluent German

Multilingual communication

Customer service experience

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Salesforce

Workday

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Competitive salaries, bonus potential and excellent package of benefits (sports card, life insurance, private medical care, stock purchase plan, flexible working opportunities and many others).
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

For our global Abbott HR Service Center we are currently looking for an ambitious, people‑oriented professional to join our multi‑lingual team in Warsaw as an HR Service Center Associate with fluent German. This is an office‑based position requiring regular presence in our Warsaw, Mokotów location.

Purpose of the role

• This role is empowered to surpass expectations by collaborating, anticipating, driving to resolution and serving with care, compassion and confidence. Utilizing concierge service with efficiency for targeted scope of requests with strong focus on operational excellence and delivery to meet high volume demands.
• This role takes ownership of targeted scope and must drive efficiency and productivity while meeting high volume demands. It is an efficient processor who, with guidance and directions, can meet the demands of multiple, repetitive HR processes, tasks and inquiries. The role has strong customer service focus while supporting employees and managers in resolution of their HR matters via supporting tools and processes and by effectively navigating customers towards solutions.

What You’ll do

• Solve requests from customers (Abbott employees from the globe, focused on Region) through at least two of the four channels: phone, chat, email and appointment; and through two or more languages, with German and English being mandatory and fluent.
• Meet and abide pre‑established schedules, which will respond to the specific needs of the business. The high season takes time between November and March.
• Ensure and always be up‑to‑date with the knowledge required for an effective performance of the functions, from the entire onboarding process and the subsequent technical and functional trainings.
• Optimally respond to service inquiries and requests with timely, accurate, and professional replies while focusing on selected contact channels or scope of work.
• Resolve or escalate requests based on established resources; partner with other HR service center team members to troubleshoot resolution of all requests. Work with an appropriate sense of urgency and efficiency.
• Identify "roadblocks" to quality customer service and in Service Center processes or Abbott‑wide practices or policies, and share insights along with possible improvements with management.
• Demonstrate a right attitude towards customer service coupled with good communication skills, accuracy and ability to listen and interpret requests from customers.
• Focus on targeted scope of service with lower complexity and high‑volume work.
• Close focus on productivity, focus on concierge service, operational excellence and time management.
• Ensure delivered cases and applied processes comply with Corporate and Compliance ethical standards.

Required qualifications and background

• Bachelor’s degree in careers such as Administration, Systems, Communications, Translation and Interpretation or similar.
• Desirable postgraduate or specialization in Human Resources and/or Customer Service.
• Languages: Fluent English and German, any additional European language (French, Spanish, Russian, Polish) would be a strong asset.
• Experience in working in areas such as Human Resources and/or Customer Service through face‑to‑face or virtual channels.
• Managing multi‑channel customer service platforms (phone, email and chat).
• Working with customer management tools, desirable Salesforce.
• User‑level experience in ERP tools/people management software like Workday (desirable).
• Desirable in remote communication channels with global teams, in various languages and formats.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.