Job Description

Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?


Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application!



We are looking for a strategic partner and coach to join our team, who can translate business needs into People & Culture (P&C) requirements, drive transformation, and ensure alignment between business and people strategy. The ideal candidate will focus on enabling leadership, change, and organizational effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as a consulting & sparring partner for managers on performance, transformation, strategy, and organizational design. Act as a proactive impulse generator using KPIs and business understanding. Lead strategic workforce and succession planning, as well as talent management initiatives. Provide consulting on recruitment, selection, and exit processes. Oversee labor law and works council management. Implement group-wide P&C concepts and guidelines at the local/business level. Drive engagement initiatives and continuous process improvement and digitalization. Participate in various initiatives, such as serving as an engagement champion.

Your profile:

Qualification:

Completed relevant degree, e.g. business administration, psychology, law. Further training in business coaching is desirable.

Experience and know-how:

+ At least 5-8 years of relevant professional experience in a large, international organization with matrix structures.
+ Extensive recruiting experience.
+ Experience in strategic HR work.
+ Data literacy.
+ Coaching and moderation skills, change methods.
+ Good knowledge of labour law and experience in working with works councils and if possible also with collective agreements.

Personality:

Communicative, curious, empathetic, goal-oriented, and hands-on mentality.

Working style

: Self-independent, team-oriented, value-oriented work.

Languages:

Very good knowledge of German and English.
If you are passionate about driving organizational success through strategic P&C initiatives, we encourage you to apply.

Your Benefits:

Attractive remuneration:

You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.

Flexible and mobile working:

We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.

Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account:

We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.

WEPA Academy:

With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.

Sustainable personnel policy:

A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.

Health & Wellbeing:

You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB. The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.

The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With around 4,300 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 14 production sites in Europe.


A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years.


We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We do this because we are convinced of one thing:

Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.

University degree (Bachelor, Master, Diploma or similar)