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About the Role

This exciting role as Global HR Business Partner within the People & Change team at Knauf Ceiling Solutions offers an opportunity to build a unique career in a values-led culture with a clear purpose of making tomorrow a home for all of us. You will be a trusted advisor and thought partner to leaders across global functions, shaping talent attraction, development, and retention, and enabling effective organizational change.

Responsibilities

Partner with senior leaders on strategic people topics such as talent and succession, engagement, organisational development, capability building, performance and reward.
Build leadership maturity through coaching, feedback and targeted interventions, role modelling as a trusted adviser.
Work closely with local HR in markets and plants to ensure global consistency with local compliance on contractual, legal, payroll and employee relations matters.
Lead and govern the global people & change strategy, project portfolio and roadmap in partnership with project owners - setting priorities and governance, aligning scope and success measures, sequencing delivery and tracking benefits realisation.
Translate the HR roadmap into clear, compelling communications and enablement so initiatives are understood, adopted and sustained across the business.
Lead selected strategic people & change projects from discovery and design through to implementation and change adoption.
Represent the people & change function in cross functional programmes, bringing the people lens to solution design, change impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, communications and training.
Collaborate closely with Centres of Expertise and local HR teams to deliver coherent, scalable solutions and a consistent global employee experience.

Requirements

Degree in Business, Psychology, HR or Organisational Development (or equivalent experience).
10+ years as a global HR Business Partner in a complex, matrixed organisation with a strong record delivering talent and change initiatives.
Proven project management skills - setting the HR roadmap and governance, sequencing delivery, tracking benefits and leading strategic projects end to end.
Expertise in organisational design and change management, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training and adoption.
Collaborative and influential, able to coach and challenge senior leaders and build trusted relationships across regions and plants, partnering closely with local HR and works councils.
A self-starter with a hands on, can do approach; comfortable switching between strategy and execution and thriving in a global, flexible, topic centred environment.
Excellent communication and presentation skills in English.

Skills

Talent management
Succession planning
Engagement
Organisational development
Capability building
Performance management
Reward management
Coaching
Feedback
Project management
Organisational design
Change management
Stakeholder engagement
Communications
Training
Adoption
Presentation skills

Location

Europe (any Knauf Ceiling Solutions location)

Work Type

Global
Hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years

Education Level

Degree in Business, Psychology, HR or Organisational Development (or equivalent experience)

About the Company

Knauf stands for opportunity. We know that opportunity looks different to each person and we are proud that we see opportunity in everyone.
Knauf Ceiling Solutions has a clear purpose of making tomorrow a home for all of us.