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Location: Augsburg
The Role The People Business Partner (PBP) (m/f/d) is a strategic advisor who partners closely with business leaders and employees in IGEL’s assigned business area.
This role is instrumental in shaping organisational effectiveness, strengthening leadership capability, and elevating the employee experience as IGEL continues to scale.
The role requires the confidence and credibility to influence senior leaders, constructively challenge where needed, and operate effectively across diverse functions and international teams.
The PBP will anticipate people-related needs, provide both practical and strategic guidance, and deliver solutions aligned with IGEL’s business objectives, values, and culture.
Key Responsibilities Strategic Partnership & Organizational Support · Partner with leaders to understand business goals and actively shape people strategies, providing both support and constructive challenge to drive organizational effectiveness · Provide insight and guidance to business leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, and team scaling. · Leverage data and insight, including talent metrics, engagement findings, and trends, to drive proactive decision-making.
Employee Experience & Culture · Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing workplace culture across the assigned business area. · Coach leaders on effective people leadership, performance management, engagement, and difficult conversations. · Address employee concerns with tact, discretion, and empathy, ensuring alignment to IGEL values.
Talent Management & Leadership Development · Work closely with the on-site People Manager in assigned business area, to advise and coach leaders on performance management, development planning, succession, and career progression. · Support programs that strengthen leadership capability and employee development. · Identify talent gaps, align with managers and the People Operations team on appropriate solutions.
Employee Relations · Serve as a trusted advisor on complex employee relations issues, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant outcomes, including situations involving senior leaders, performance risk, and organisational change. · Lead or support investigations as needed, maintaining clear documentation and communicating recommendations effectively.
HR Operations & Compliance · Provide practical HR guidance across multiple European jurisdictions, working with local specialists and external advisors to navigate countryspecific employment legislation and practices. · Partner with People Operations to ensure smooth onboarding, offboarding, and core HR processes. · Partner closely with the Senior Director, HR Compliance on Works Council matters to ensure compliant, pragmatic, and business-aligned outcomes. · Provide guidance to managers in line with relevant labour laws. · Support policy interpretation, creation, updating, and communication.
People Programs & Change Management · Implement or support the rollout of People Team initiatives, including compensation cycles and performance feedback under the IGEL Continuous Development Process, engagement surveys, and organizational changes.
Act as a change ambassador, ensuring alignment, communication, and adoption throughout the business.
Qualifications Required · Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field—or equivalent work experience. · 8+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 4 years serving as a business partner or generalist. · Strong working knowledge of German employment law, with demonstrated experience working with Works Councils in a pragmatic, business-aligned manner. · Demonstrated success coaching and influencing senior leaders across a range of business functions and international environments. Exceptional interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and business acumen. · Ability to work onsite in the Augsburg office on a regular schedule. · Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and German, with French, or Italian language skills being a distinct advantage.
Preferred · Experience providing HR business partnering support across multiple European countries, particularly France, Italy, the Netherlands and the Nordic region. · Familiarity with the employment practices, employee relations considerations and cultural differences involved in supporting international teams. · Highly proactive self-starter, comfortable operating independently and managing priorities with minimal day-to-day supervision. · Confident and credible when partnering with senior leaders across diverse business functions and international teams. Pragmatic, solutions-oriented mindset with sound judgement. · Strong relationship-builder with the ability to influence without authority · Experience in the technology, SaaS, or high-growth environment. · Experience partnering with global or distributed teams.
