HR Busines Partner Corporate Center Germany (m/f/d)

Are you ready to make an impact in shaping people strategies for a dynamic corporate environment? We’re looking for a HR Business Partner to join our Corporate Center team in Hamburg.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, international setting and love partnering with senior leaders to drive transformation, this is your opportunity to influence the future of Bauer Media Group.

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You’ll be part of the Group People team based at Bauer Media Group’s headquarters in Hamburg. We work closely with Centers of Expertise in Total Rewards, Talent, People Operations, and Transformation Enablement, as well as legal and publishing colleagues. Together, we enable strategic HR initiatives that support our business and people objectives across multiple functions.

The difference you will make

You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders in the Corporate Center, aligning business and people strategies. Your expertise will help shape organizational design, talent development, and engagement initiatives that foster a culture of inclusion and high performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise managers and employees on HR matters including employment law, compensation, and development.
• Implement people strategies that drive organizational performance.
• Support organizational design, change management, and workforce planning.
• Collaborate with CoEs on talent acquisition, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Drive performance management and engagement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with local laws and HR policies.

What we are looking for

• Extensive experience as an HR Generalist or HR Business Partner in an international, matrix organization.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Business fluent in German and English.
• Analytical, process-driven, and proactive working style.
• Experience with HRIS (ideally SAP SuccessFactors).
• Master’s degree in HR, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

We want to inspire not only our customers, we also want to inspire our colleagues. How? By giving you the opportunity to take on responsibility and by offering you a long-term perspective.

You can also benefit from our attractive offers:

• Individual solutions for the flexible organisation of working hours and location
• Targeted and individual training for your professional and personal development
• A central location in Hamburg's city centre with good transport options (bus & train)
• Subsidy for Deutschlandticket & bike leasing
• Effective health management (e.g. health week, free sports programmes & Wellhub)
• 30 days of holiday & frequent events for employees
• Company restaurant, free magazines & various discounts via corporate benefits
• A culture in which personal responsibility, teamwork and creativity are valued and you have room for creativity and for exciting and challenging tasks

If you are looking for an independent position and would like to enrich our existing team with fresh impulses, we look forward to receiving your complete application documents.

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We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.