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Senior People Business Partner (all genders)
pplwise
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 8+ years
Job description
A Senior People Business Partner role advising Commercial leaders and a small number of Corporate Functions, owning the full people partnering agenda from organisational design and workforce planning to leadership effectiveness and transformation. It is an HR strategy and advisory role, not a recruiting role.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- German – fluent, English – fluent
What you'll do
- Act as trusted advisor to Senior Commercial leaders on organisational design, team structures, and leadership effectiveness
- Advise on workforce planning and capacity to support commercial goals
- Coach leaders on performance, difficult conversations, team dynamics, and retention risks
- Advise leaders independently on sensitive employee matters under employment law
- 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
- Align HR, Finance, Legal, People Operations, and business stakeholders on dependencies and decisions
What we're looking for
- 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
Your team
Commercial function
The role partners the Commercial organisation and a small number of Corporate Functions.