Senior HR Manager, Germany

Opportunity

Based in one of our German offices, the Senior HR Manager will play an essential role in providing frontline HR advice and support to Senior Leadership and the wider talent community. This person will have responsibility for a variety of employee lifecycle activities and help ensure that the HR operations and processes are seamlessly run; as well as working on different local and regional strategic projects and initiatives.

This role will also work closely with the Regional HR team based in London to ensure alignment across Europe and the wider firm as well as the HRIS & Systems team, also based in London to ensure all data is accurate and up to date. They will be an integral part of a collegiate, ambitious, and highly professional regional People team.

Our work with People team

To meet our clients’ needs, it is essential that we recruit, retain and develop world-class advisors.  Brunswick’s global people team is designed to equip the business with the talent, skills as well as advisory and strategic support it needs to grow. This is a fast-paced environment with a dynamic team, which provides high quality HR and Recruitment advice and operational day-to-day service interfacing effectively with professionals across all levels, as well as driving innovation for the firm’s People strategy.

A small function in a growing, entrepreneurial business, members of Brunswick’s People team need excellent communication, professional interpersonal skills, be committed, agile and self-starting, whilst maintaining the highest standards of professional delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Advisory, Business Partnering and Employee Relations

• Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, locally and regionally on all people related topics. Effectively mitigating risk and ensuring the business provides the highest possible quality experience to colleagues of all levels
• Partner with colleagues to provide guidance, coaching and support on all HR matters including developing our people, identifying new talent and working with the Regional and Global People team on the firm’s people strategy.
• Focus on developing and supporting colleagues across offices by reviewing mentoring relationships; actively promoting and supporting continuous feedback mechanisms within the Germany offices. Act as a sounding board/point of contact for careers advice and development opportunities.
• Play an active role supporting the German Resourcing Team – helping to ensure work is allocated to colleagues fairly and with development goals in mind; and reviewing workloads across the office to identify any issues.
• Be proactive in making suggestions for ways to develop and support colleagues particularly around wellbeing and welfare; as well as highlighting any potential people issues (individual and more broadly) to senior management and providing advice on how to respond to issues.

• Communicate regularly and effectively to build strong relationships with colleagues and to help build an inclusive culture.

• Manage any Employee Relations issues, including performance management, terminations, conduct and sickness cases, supporting both employees and Mentors/Managers

Employee lifecycle processes

• Ensure all new joiners receive a successful onboarding experience.
• Lead HR Inductions with all new joiners.
• Act as first point of contact and/or escalation point for any HR queries.
• Manage all family leave processes such as maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave.
• Overseeing reintegration of employees returning from family leave, secondments, or long-term absence.
• Work with HR Assistants locally and in London to ensure data for Germany is up to date and accurate.
• Manage all local contracts for new hires and any updates/addendums to contracts.
• Drafting other employee correspondence and communication
• Handle all departures and exit paperwork.

Learning and Development

• Work with leadership and Global L&D colleagues to help roll out relevant training for the German offices.
• Conduct Training Needs Analysis for the office, identifying learning needs, working with L&D colleagues to find relevant providers (internal or external), promoting training opportunities, monitoring attendance, collecting feedback on programmes.
• Actively champion and support any cross-office learning opportunities – help co-ordinate delegates/speakers for regional programmes including Finance Talking, Women’s Career Development Programme, Regional and Global Inductions and Core Skills programmes

Performance, Remuneration & Benefits

In collaboration with the HRD, Europe and IMEA:

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