Personalleiter / Head of HR - Vreden (m/w/d)

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group is a specialty materials provider with an unwavering commitment to forging innovative solutions. We possess extensive expertise and leadership in material science within the core market segments of Mobility, Digital, Food and Healthcare. By providing advanced chemistry-based solutions our 70,000 employees globally enable industry transformation, develop technological advancements, and create more fruitful lives for the global population.

Are you ready to shape the strategic and operational direction of human resources in a dynamic, multi-site environment? Based at our Vreden location — and supporting across Wischhafen, Lotte, Sinsheim, and Heinsberg — we're seeking a Head of HR to drive harmonization, enhance service delivery, and champion a customer-oriented HR culture for approx. 500 employees. This is your opportunity to support the development of HR professionals, collaborate with fellow HR leaders, and to make a positive impact on the employee experience.

Your responsibilities:

• Designing operational and strategic HR work and policy; acting as the point of contact for management and executives & participating in steering and implementing the future the strategy for the entity.
• Leading, motivating and developing the HR team (8 people).
• Ensuring successful management of governance and compliance, payroll and labour law.
• Working in close collaboration with the works council.
• Providing comprehensive support for employees including ongoing development, workforce planning and succession planning.
• Collaborating on group-wide HR projects and ensuring constructive cooperation with local and regional teams.

• You will bring significant professional experience as an HR Leader, coupled with a related degree (or equivalent) in business administration, human resources, labour law or similar.
• Extensive skills are required in working with German works councils, with a comprehensive knowledge of labour and social law, and collective bargaining agreements.
• Your motivational leadership style, hands-on mentality, and strong collaboration skills will be key drivers for success in the role.
• Fluent German and English is essential.

We offer an attractive compensation and extensive social benefits package, such as bonuses, a company pension plan, health offers, employee discounts, and more. Our corporate culture is based on the values of integrity, respect, courage, perseverance, and collaboration— which we call "Our Way." With this unique approach, we are shaping a sustainable and progressive world together.

We believe that success is based on the collaboration of people with diverse values, perspectives, and abilities. We strive to harmonize people and the planet with our values, thus creating a natural, balanced, and diverse environment concept we call KAITEKI.

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