HR Business Partner

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its 130-year legacy. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

We know that our people are the key to our success, which is why our Human Resources team works to attract, develop, retain and inspire our people so that they can learn, grow and make a true impact on the world. Together we collaborate to create a culturally rich, diverse organization ensuring we remain innovative and agile.

We are looking to welcome you as a **HR Business Partner (M/F/d)** to join our team in Schwabenheim, near Mainz, in part time.

We are bound by collective bargaining agreements and work together with our works council on a basis of trust, which is why sound knowledge of labor law, including collective bargaining law and works constitution law, is very important. The client group will include senior line leaders (Senior/Executive Director levels) and their teams within Commercial Team of our R&D site in Schwabenheim.

You will also need to quickly foster partnerships across the HR community, for example with Centres of Expertise (e.g. Compensation & Benefits, Talent Acquisition) in order to address client requirements and manage client expectations regarding HR service delivery.

**Further you will take responsibility for**:

- Supporting key stakeholders in implementing the strategic direction of the organisation, taking into account the relevant KPIs
- Provide effective strategic and day to day HR support for clients focused on variety of topics, for example, engagement & culture change, talent development, succession planning, performance management, retention, compensation/rewards, and organisational design.
- Oversee strategic HR topics in close collaboration with our Centres as part of our HR Operating Mode Ensure local processes for performance management, compensation & benefits, retention, talent management and succession planning are in line with our global corporate standards
- Advising managers on labor law (individual and collective) and working in a spirit of trust with the Works Council, among others, on the development and design of modern company regulations
- Drawing up works council agreements that pay attention to a modern and competitive working environment
- Collaboration in HR projects
- Accompanying change processes to promote an engaged and high-performing corporate culture

**As a successful employee, you will ideally have the following knowledge and skills**:

- Adequate studies, such as business administration or related working experience
- Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience as a HR Business Partner
- Stakeholder management of multiple decision makers, corporate colleagues and cross-functional teams
- Profound knowledge of German labor law and in working with works councils
- Work experience in international companies and working in matrix organizations
- Business orientation and analytical skills combined with ability to be a highly effective communicator and to influence outcomes at all levels of the business / stakeholdermanagement
- Understanding business needs with a Hands on mentality
- Well organized, able to focus on multiple issues and prioritize effectively
- Solution-oriented approach to work and ability to think outside the box
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - fluency in German and English is required
- Willingness to travel 5%
- Ability to project manage multiple projects and initiatives through to successful delivery

**Who we are**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for**

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
Domestic

**VISA Sponsorship**:
**Travel Requiremen