Head of HR Europe (m/f/d)

Head of HR Europe (m/f/d) Permanent

About Heraeus

Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group, we help our customers to always be one step ahead.

About Heraeus Medevio

Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds.

To reach our vision of improving 100 million lives every year, we foster a culture of curiosity that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, growth, and the opportunity to try new things. With sites in the United States, European Union, and Asia, and over 2,200 employees worldwide, together, we will meet tomorrow's challenges today.

The following challenges await you:

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging: ensure site and regional roadmaps, targets, and strategies are in place.
• Talent and Succession: active support of and knowledge of talent in the European region.
• HR Systems, Processes and Data: Lead projects to standardize, integrate and/or harmonize select processes, lead regional or global projects to improve the efficiencies and/or effectiveness of HR systems and processes and drive continuous HR process improvement.
• Organizational Development, Design & Effectiveness: Provide guidance to supported leaders on organizational structure, leadership and culture to achieve the business strategy, support key global cultural goals e.g., sustainable implementation of Medevio leadership competencies, execution culture, reduction of complexity, and living Medevio’s values.

Furthermore, you provide leadership and opportunities for growth and development to the HR Leaders and teams supporting our four European Medevio sites:

• Support and develop European HR leaders to maintain a high performing, highly engaged team.
• Prioritize and manage workload between team members to ensure business needs are met without losing sight of implementing longer term, high value HR strategies.
• Work with team members and business leaders to continue to evolve our “one team” culture and create alignment of HR processes and policies across sites as appropriate.
• Support the development of HR and site budgets.

In addition, you lead global and/or regional Medevio HR projects as assigned or necessitated by changing HR priorities and/or legislative landscape (e.g., regarding sustainability, data protection and privacy, compensation practices).

Your Profile:

• You successfully completed your business studies with a focus on Human Resources and gained 7+ years of experience in Human Resources and 5 years in a management level position.
• You gained solid project management skills and already led global HR projects successfully.
• Your business English is fluent (written and verbal).
• You use your strong communication, influencing, and presentation skills in dealing with executives and other key stakeholders.
• Preferably, you have a strong knowledge of German labor law and significant experience in dealing with works councils, collective agreements and negotiations.
• Your “home base” in Hanau and flexibility to travel to Medevio’s other European sites in Dresden, Hradec Králové, and Yverdon as required rounds off your profile.

Curious? Apply now!

We are interested in finding the best candidates, and they may come from a nontraditional background. So please don’t hesitate to apply, even if you aren’t an exact fit. We look forward to getting you started on your employment journey with Heraeus Medevio!

Any further questions?

Our Recruiting Team, Heraeus Medevio, is happy to assist you by email: recruiting.cf@heraeus.com. Or visit us at jobs.heraeus.com.