Senior People Business Partner (all genders)

Transformation and people frameworks

• Design and lead complex transformation initiatives, including new operating models and culture and leadership programmes
• Shape people frameworks such as job architecture, role expectations, and career paths
• Develop clear change communication for leaders and employees, and manage resistance and build commitment
• Use people data to identify capability gaps, retention risks, and succession needs, and turn insights into concrete recommendations
• Drive AI adoption in the Commercial organisation: identify where AI changes roles, skills and ways of working, and build the capability and change plans to make it stick
• Cross-functional alignment
• Align HR, Finance, Legal, People Operations, and business stakeholders on dependencies and decisions

WHO YOU ARE

• 8+ years in HR / People, including at least 3 years as (Senior) HR Business Partner for a sales or commercial organisation
• You have earned the trust of senior sales leaders before: you understand quota logic, variable compensation, performance culture and the pace of a revenue organisation, and you hold your position when it matters
• Proven track record of leading complex organisational change, including restructurings and new operating models
• Strong conceptual and project management skills: you turn a leadership question into a structured concept, a plan and a decision paper, and you deliver end to end
• AI is part of how you work: you use AI tools confidently for analysis, concept work and communication, and you can show leaders what AI means for roles, skills and team design
• Solid working knowledge of German employment law; you handle sensitive cases independently and know when to involve counsel
• Excellent stakeholder management and strong people skills: you build trust quickly at senior level, lead without formal authority, and carry leaders and teams through difficult decisions with empathy and clarity
• Builder mindset: comfortable creating frameworks and structures where none exist yet
• Full fluency in German and English, written and spoken
• Nice to have: HR or management consulting background, experience in adtech / SaaS / retail, Italian or Spanish

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Posted Nov 01, 2026

Posted Nov 01, 2026