Starte als Human Resources Business Partner Germany (m/w/d) bei Northvolt – Arbeitsort Hamburg

Northvolt is on a growth journey along with its central and local HR teams. Our employees are our greatest strength and we are therefore looking for an excellent HRBP who will commit and contribute to fostering an awesome place to work.

At Northvolt, we strongly believe in our mission. In joining us, you will also play an important role from the very start in building one of the first large scale European battery factories - a great step forward in the transformation to a carbon free society. With broad experience and the right attitude, the HRBP will make sure that our employees and leadership are provided with an exceptional working experience. At the same time we like to challenge ourselves and thrive for constant improvement.

The HRBP roles will be located at Northvolt Drei, our Gigafactory in Heide supporting our different teams with the broad spectrum of HR areas. All this in a fast-paced environment and with the mandate of building our organization, culture and processes along the way.

The HRBP will report directly to the VP People based in Heide/Hamburg. And you’ll be a part of a passionate, skilled and diverse company.

You have several years of experience from building a stellar employee life cycle over time and should have demonstrated a successful track record of organizational and people leadership.

Among your key areas of responsibilities:

• Support the business in all aspects of HR on both the strategic and operational levels
• Build HR processes from scratch
• Employer Branding, Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, Talent & Performance Management
• Compensation and Benefits
• Training and Performance
• Build and maintain excellent and effective employee relations, as well as union-management relations
• Managerial support, HR advising and coaching
• HCM System implementation experience

With a high-quality mindset and approach, you will be dedicated to building an excellent and functional organization starting from the early start of the company, playing a key role in supporting and coaching our managers and employees in all HR-related questions. With your passion and can-do attitude, you will take the lead in establishing, developing and maintaining Northvolt's HR processes and policies locally. You will ensure that processes, systems and work routines are as optimized as possible and aligned with business needs and strategy.

Thanks to your genuine passion for building and growing great companies, you will support counselling our employees and leaders by planning, monitoring and supporting our team members in achieving their career goals within the organization.

As part of your umbrella of responsibilities, you will, together with our managers, ensure legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable human resource law requirements, conducting investigations, maintaining records, representing the organization at hearings, and handling the relation with the unions and the alike.

As a person, you are passionate, highly organized and result-driven. You are strongly goal-oriented, curious and eager to learn. You like to be proactive and deliver beyond expectations. You share our can-do attitude and entrepreneurial spirit! Qualities that we cherish are flexibility, a sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humour

We thrive from promoting diversity in our workforce in order to ensure that Northvolt's culture welcomes a diverse workforce.

Please apply with CV or a complete LinkedIn profile.
Full time position, starting date asap.

Skills & Requirements

Our ideal candidate:

• We are looking for a candidate with previous substantial experience in Human Resources, preferably in manufacturing companies
• You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration or related

• A strategic thinker to support the definition of HR strategies as well as an excellent hands-on doer who gets things executed and does not mind getting into the details - you have to be the cliché "hands-on person"

• You have solid knowledge of compensation strategy, performance management, employee relations, safety practices and talent acquisition, and the ability to apply this knowledge in a manner that is compliant with relevant employment laws

• You have previous proven experience in creating a culture of engagement, collaboration and teamwork. You have experience in leading people directly or indirectly – using positive leadership and managerial techniques

• You are a great communication skills in written and verbal communication with fluency in English and German