Senior Manager Performance Management (m/f/d)

Shape the Future of Performance at Bauer Media Group 

Are you passionate about building high-impact performance frameworks that drive individual and business success? Join our newly formed Centre of Excellence for Performance Management & Total Rewards and help shape the future of performance culture across Bauer Media Group. 

As Senior Manager Performance Management, you’ll lead the design and implementation of global performance frameworks, partnering with stakeholders across diverse markets and business units. This is a unique opportunity to build scalable, strategic processes from the ground up and make a lasting impact. 

Your Role 

• Design & Develop global performance management frameworks (goal setting, feedback, reviews, calibration). 
• Partner & Align with HRBPs and People Directors to tailor frameworks to local needs while ensuring global consistency. 
• Drive Execution of the global performance cycle, including planning, communication, and calibration. 
• Enable Change by fostering a high-performance culture through training, stakeholder engagement, and communication strategies. 
• Leverage Insights from performance data to support business decisions and workforce planning. 
• Integrate with Rewards to ensure performance outcomes align with recognition and compensation strategies. 

Your Profile 

• Extensive experience in HR, with a focus on performance management and talent processes. 
• Proven success in international, matrixed environments. 
• Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills. 
• Proficient in SAP SuccessFactors (Performance & Goals module preferred). 
• Fluent in English; German is a plus. 
• Master’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Psychology or related field. 

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.

Your contact for this position is Robin Serbanescu 

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.