HR Manager (m/w/d) Fixed-term for 1.5 Years

Role brief

Your Tasks You advise and support our managers as a trusted sparring partner in all strategic and operational HR matters. You support our employees throughout the entire employee life cycle. You actively shape and accompany organizational development and change processes and contribute to developing our organization for the future. You support the recruiting process—from workforce planning through candidate selection to successful onboarding of new colleagues. You participate in payroll processing and ensure smooth payroll operations together with relevant interfaces. You are responsible for planning, controlling, and monitoring the HR budget and support personnel analyses and administrative HR processes. You independently manage HR projects and bring new ideas for optimizing and further developing our HR work and our company. Your Qualifications You have a completed degree with a focus on Personnel Management or comparable qualifications with additional training. You have solid experience in a comparable position as well as in supporting employees and managers, and you bring broad expertise in individual and collective labor law. With initiative and diplomatic skill, you convince through your communication and consulting competence. With your excellent self-management and high service orientation, you actively shape your role. You act as a motivator and promote change through your advisory role—always with an eye on emotional aspects ("from heart-to-heart"). Through rational argumentation and emotional depth, you convince in interactions and sustainably influence behavior. You are communicative, flexible, organized, and have a heart for sustainability—then we look forward to hearing from you! Fluent English in speech and writing? Yes, please! Your Benefits The team spirit among us is truly unique: you will be welcomed by a family-like team that will make you forget after two days that you are new. We are fans of short decision-making paths, pragmatic solutions, and honest communication on equal footing. You can expect a comprehensive benefits program: subsidy for the Deutschlandticket, free membership in Urban Sports Club, Givve Card, meal allowance, occupational pension scheme, JobRad, employee discounts. Your work-life balance is important to us, which is why we offer you flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home. Your dog is also welcome in the office! In the south of Cologne, directly on the Rhine, you will find your new workplace—easily accessible via the train station right in front of the door. The roof terrace with a view of the cathedral also offers you the ideal place for relaxation and fresh ideas. We want to develop further with you: together we make plans for your career with us and put those plans into action. Through our sustainable business model in the photovoltaics industry, we offer you meaningful work and the opportunity to advance the energy transition together with us. [Auto-translated from German]