People & Culture Director DACH (m/w/d)

The position

As Director People & Culture DACH you are driving the people agenda in your region. You are balancing a strategic and operational human resources function for a global organization in a mature and important market which consists of 5 business units with ~800 employees. Your team is consisting of 12 specialists in business partnering, learning & development, talent acquisition & employer branding as well as people operations. The people operations team is also supporting the distribution organization with ~150 employees.

We are looking for an empathic, commercially driven, and modern leader with excellent stakeholder management skills to enable business growth with efficient services and solutions tailored to the business unit needs. The position is part of the DACH management team as well as the European People & Culture team. The position is reporting to the Vice President DACH as well as the Senior Director People & Culture Europe. It is an exciting time to join this business as we have recently grown the people served by the People and Culture team in this region through the acquisition of a new company Atos Medical and its integration into the Coloplast organisation.

Ultimately you are responsible to impactfully contribute to the success of the DACH cluster, but more specifically, you will be responsible for:

• Understanding the organizational needs which enables business growth via excellent people services and solutions
• Acting as a trusted advisor, thoughtful sounding board and business partner for the senior business leaders. Functioning as the expert on people and organizational issues
• Creating and executing people-related strategies tied to the business' strategies and needs, ensuring talent implications are effectively identified and addressed
• Championing the organizations culture, driving an environment of engagement, open communication, and high ethical standards
• Provide the day-to-day leadership, management, motivation, and development of the People & Culture team

Essential Qualification

• You are senior People & Culture leader with a background in commercial sales, services, and marketing organizations in a matrix setup, experience in life science industry is a benefit
• Minimum 10 years of HR experience in progressive HR roles
• HR experience in an environment with a worker council is a prerequisite
• Broad-based HR understanding including a strong track-record in terms of talent-, and change management

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical skills, business acumen and commercial mind-set
• Able to challenge strong stakeholders to reach the best results
• Quick learner with a high degree of common sense, resourcefulness, and flexibility
• Ambitious to deliver results through a collaborative approach
• International in thinking and attitude
• Results-oriented, motivated leader who consistently operates at high levels
• Proactively owns initiatives with the ability to navigate around obstacles and persevere through setbacks
• Innovative and creative with a strong mindset for continuous improvement
• Fluent in german and English in a prerequisite
• Excellent communicator both oral and written, with an ability to present views in a clear and compelling manner

If you are interested in that job, please apply via our online application form. We are offering a great development opportunity with excellent future perspectives. The application period closes on the 25th of October. 

Pursuing an ambitious growth agenda, Coloplast develops and markets products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Employing about 16.000 people and with products available in more than 143 countries, we are one of the world´s leading medical device companies. We are constantly growing our business and always looking for new ways to move forward – we explore, learn and look for new ways of doing things.

Coloplast is committed to being an inclusive organization, where people bring their differences to work each day, fulfil their potential and have a strong sense of belonging because – and not despite – of their differences. We therefore encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief or physical ability.

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