Are you a HR-professional who believes that people are the number one key to our success? Do you want to take the next big step towards securing strong HR-delivery in a global context?

If you are as passionate about enabling people and business as we are, please keep on reading! We are now recruiting a People Experience Partner to the new Business Tech Hub in Berlin.    

H&M Group Business Tech is established to take the lead in changing the fashion industry completely, combining business and technology with innovation to create new business and customer value. With our Business Tech Hubs, we want to create a global and collaborative network for the newly formed function and make sure that our Business Tech products are achieving the effects in the markets and are highly relevant for our customers, colleagues & future talents in different parts of the world. The Business Tech Hub for Europe & Africa is located in Berlin.

What you will do as People Experience Partner in the hub 

What makes you the right candidate for this position? 

How can you add value in a diverse and global context?

These are questions we want you to answer in your application for this role, so please keep them in mind while continuing reading this advert.

As People Experience Partner your main objective is to ensure strong ensure strong and efficient HR delivery towards the Europe and Africa Hub that is located in Berlin. Based on agile principles you will support the long-term staffing strategy for the hub, as well as implement different global and local HR initiatives that effectively communicate our strategic vision, and corporate culture to all employees in the organization. 

As People Experience Partner in the Business Tech hub, we think that you are a great and engaging people leader with experience from building and enabling high-performing teams. You showcase a passion to challenge the status quo and have ability to find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas.  As the only People Experience Partner working in Berlin, we believe you are a good communicator and great at building relationships. You are driven and self-motivated and knows who to turn to in order to get things done.

Furthermore, we believe to have a great sense of the whole employee life cycle, and therefore when to do what. You will be responsible for making the Hub a highly attractive and engaging office, both physically and remotely for global Business Tech Talents.

We are on a journey together which means that there is not one clear path. You will play an important role in setting the foundation and creating our future hub organisation. Furthermore, you will:  

• Operationally ensure all relevant HR deliveries of the hub in Berlin 
• Translate the Business Tech people strategy into effective HR services for the hub 
• Create a strong collaborative network and synergies with local & regional H&M Group HR colleagues   as well as HR colleagues within Business Tech 
• Secure local labor law compliance, employee relations & work environmental responsibilities of the hub 
• Be responsible to implement and maintain a locally attractive compensation & benefits structure 
• Contribute with local input and requirements to the global Business Tech HR processes  
• Create a welcoming culture & work environment, and first-class people experience for all hub employees 

Your skills and mindset

To succeed in this role, we believe you have at least three years of experience from a broad role within HR, where you have worked to translate HR strategies into daily support of an organization. We also want you to have strong expertise and understanding of Compensation & Benefits, local labor law and mobility knowledge.

Our journey will lead to something new and exciting - we will test, fail and learn. You are an important player in this transformation and the connected implementation of the hub; therefore, we believe you are flexible, stress-resistant and able to work in an environment that is not yet formalized.

You have good leadership skills and the ability to build a non-hierarchical and cross-functional culture of collaboration, transparency, safety and trust. You empower others to fail, learn, and grow and celebrate success as much as failure.

Do you think we are a match? We hope so! 

This is a fulltime position with placement in Berlin. We will review applications continuously, please apply with CV and cover Letter as soon as possible but no later than the 8th of August 2021.