Strategic Assistant to Head of HR COM (f/m/x)

Your Talent, our Vision – together we see beyond. Your start at ZEISS Vision Care. As a leading manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses, we help people around the world achieve a clearer vision – sustainable and with focus on the future. Our products are as diverse as the career paths we offer, from tailored lenses to award-winning measurement systems. Become part of our team and shape a future in which clear vision and professional success go hand in hand.

The Strategic Assistant (f/m/x) acts as a trusted partner to the Head of HR COM, translating the segment HR strategy into actionable execution and aligning the HR leadership agenda with ZEISS objectives.

Your role

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Head of HR on segment priorities, risks and opportunities, and organizational priorities
• Drive executive of key HR initiatives, ensuring actions, milestones and owners are clear
• Prepare executive materials: presentations, dashboards, and briefings for senior leadership reviews
• Coordinate cross-functional projects with HR BMs, Head of CoE, Finance, Central HR, and business leaders; monitor progress
• Track progress, identify blockers, and elevate issues to enable timely decision
• Gatekeep priorities and communications and support change management
• Prepare and coordinate HR offsites and HR townhalls and team meetings
• Build and maintain a global HR VIS network and foster collaboration across HR country teams

Your profile

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources Management, Business Psychology, or a related field
• Profound professional experience in HR strategy and transformation, including relevant experience gained at a leading management consultancy
• Proven track record in lateral leadership and delivering complex, cross-functional programs
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate strategy into actionable initiatives
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority
• Advanced analytical and conceptual skills with strategic, innovative thinking
• Clear, concise executive communication and presentation skills, thriving in agile, networked teams
• High resilience and discretion; excels in sensitive or confidential contexts

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme.

All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Christie Werling, Galina Elsenhans, Melike Bostanci