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Job Description

The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With more than 4,000 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 14 production sites in Europe.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years.

We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We do this because we are convinced of one thing:

Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.


  • Partner as a strategic advisor with the BU CEO and Management Team to provide insights, guidance and solutions from a People & Culture (P&C) perspective that support the achievement of business goals and drive organizational performance.
  • Inform and align the P&C Strategy with the BU strategy.
  • Initiate the development and roll-out of groupwide P&C products and processes by cooperating closely with the P&C CoEs and regional P&C Partners.
  • Develop global talent strategies for the BU to ensure the right talents. Steer the strategic workforce planning, the succession planning, the performance development and the talent management processes.
  • Account for the target setting process of the BU
  • Drive our culture, vision and values to foster our transformational path.

  • Personality: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build strong relationships at all levels, strong advisory skills and a high level of customer and results orientation, cross-cultural competence, strategic and entrepreneurial mindst
  • Working: analytical and conceptual. leverage data and metrics to drive data-based decision making.
  • Experience and Know-how: At least 5 years of experience in HR Business Partnering for an international organization, profound experiences with key HR processes such as talent management, succession planning, leadership development and workforce planning.
  • Qualification: Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or comparable
  • Languages: Business fluency in English

  • Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
  • Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
  • Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
  • WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
  • Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
  • Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.

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