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About the Role

You will create the personnel and organizational conditions for our continued growth. You will combine strategic organizational work with pragmatic implementation as a sparring partner for management, a trusted contact for employees and managers, and the owner of our central people processes. You also see administration not as an end in itself: you enjoy consistently simplifying, standardizing, and automating recurring HR tasks.

Responsibilities

Serve as the central and trusted point of contact for employees and managers, supporting leadership, feedback, and development topics, as well as conflicts, changes, and sensitive personnel situations.
Collaborate with management and the leadership team to evolve our organizational structure, roles, and responsibilities, translating our corporate culture into concrete leadership principles and people processes.
Proactively identify personnel and organizational areas for action and develop appropriate measures, from individual sparring to workshops and organizational development.
Translate the company strategy with management and finance into forward-looking personnel planning with the right roles, competencies, and capacities.
Take end-to-end responsibility for recruiting, from role design and candidate outreach to selection, interviews, and contract signing, managing external partners as needed.
Oversee our goal-setting, performance, and review cycles, and further develop our career, competency, and development models.
Support managers with talent and development topics and coordinate salary reviews, bonus processes, and promotions with management and finance.
Design lean, scalable, and automated people processes, acting as the functional process owner and key user for Personio.
Establish clear standards, templates, and responsibilities, and ensure administrative tasks are handled efficiently with the support of our team assistant.
Manage confidential and legally relevant cases in collaboration with management and our external labor law firm.
Create transparency on relevant people metrics with meaningful reports and dashboards for management and finance.
Identify capacity bottlenecks, retention risks, and competency gaps, and derive concrete recommendations for action.

Requirements

Several years of experience in a generalist People & Organization, HR Business Partner, or comparable role.
Experience in a dynamic medium-sized company, scale-up, or an independently operating unit within a corporate group.
Practical experience in recruiting, performance management, personnel development, compensation, and HR operations.
Good understanding of German labor law and confidence in managing external specialists.
Strong process understanding and genuine enjoyment in simplifying, digitizing, and automating administrative processes.
Experience with Personio or a comparable HR system.
Business acumen and confidence in handling personnel budgets, key figures, and management reports.
Empathy and trustworthiness, combined with clarity, backbone, and a healthy performance standard.
Enjoyment in building structures, taking responsibility, and pragmatically driving things to completion.
Very good German and English language skills.

Skills

Organizational Development
Recruiting
Performance Management
Personnel Development
Compensation
HR Operations
German Labor Law
Process Management
Digitalization
Automation
HR Systems (Personio)
People Analytics
Reporting
Budget Management
Stakeholder Management
Communication

Location

Germany

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote (Workation up to 30 days/year within EU)

Experience Level

Multiple years of experience

Salary/Compensations

Attractive salary package above the industry average

Benefits

30 days of vacation + up to 6 days of special leave with a 39-hour week
Subsidies for sustainable mobility and health (up to €200 per month)
State-of-the-art IT equipment (Windows or Mac selectable)
Very flexible and hybrid work model
Workation offer (mobile work in EU countries for up to 30 days/year)
Capital-forming benefits: subsidy for existing contracts

About the Company

MLC-direct is the digital commerce unit of Merz Lifecare, a successful German manufacturer of Health & Wellbeing products.
Founded in 2024, we are building an independent, technology- and AI-driven company with short decision-making paths, high personal responsibility, and ambitious growth goals.
Our goal is to become a leading platform for sophisticated D2C brands in the Health & Beauty sector in Europe.
As part of the Merz Pharma Group, we combine the values and stability of a family business and the power of a global player with the freedom and speed of a startup.