D-ploy is a dynamic IT and Engineering Solutions company operating across the EMEA region, including Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, the UK, and the USA. We are committed to delivering cutting-edge services to industry-leading clients through strong partnerships and a people-focused culture.
We are seeking an HR Business Partner to join our growing international team. This position is ideal for a strategic and collaborative HR professional who thrives in a dynamic environment and enjoys driving organizational effectiveness, culture, and people strategy.
As a trusted advisor to business leaders, you will shape and execute HR strategies that enable growth, performance, and engagement across multiple locations. You will act as the bridge between leadership and employees, aligning people initiatives with business objectives and ensuring a consistent, high-performing employee experience.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Partnership
- Partner with middle and senior management to understand business goals and translate them into effective people strategies that drive performance and growth.
- Provide strategic counsel on workforce planning, organization design, and talent development.
- Analyse HR data and business metrics to inform decision-making and improve organizational effectiveness.
- Act as a thought partner in change management initiatives, supporting management in communicating and implementing organizational changes.
Talent Management & Development
- Support succession planning and talent review processes to ensure future-ready capabilities.
- Identify skill gaps and collaborate with the management team to create targeted development initiatives.
Performance & Engagement
- Drive performance enablement processes, ensuring goals are aligned with business priorities and feedback is meaningful.
- Partner with management to enhance engagement, culture, and employee experience through data-driven insights.
- Lead initiatives to improve team dynamics, motivation, and retention.
Employee Relations & Culture
- Serve as a trusted advisor and mediator, fostering a culture of openness, fairness, and accountability.
- Support and coach middle managers in addressing complex people issues, ensuring conversations and actions are handled consistently, fairly, and in line with company values and legal standards.
- Provide guidance on sensitive employee relations issues, ensuring consistency and compliance with company values and local legislation.
- Collaborate with leadership to embed company culture and values in all people initiatives and communications.
HR Governance & Collaboration
- Partner closely with HR Managers and External Workforce teams.
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation and internal policies across all countries.
- Contribute to global HR projects and initiatives that enhance the overall employee lifecycle and company growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as an HR Business Partner or in a senior advisory HR role, ideally within a multinational or service-based organization.
- Proven experience supporting leaders in strategic people initiatives such as workforce planning, talent development, and organizational design.
- Strong understanding of employment law and HR practices.
- Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility across all levels.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret HR metrics and business data to drive results.
- Fluent in English; proficiency in German or another European language is a strong advantage.
- High integrity, professional judgment, and discretion when handling confidential information.
- Willingness to provide a recent criminal record extract (not older than three months).
Benefits
- Broad range of activities, tasks, and projects
- Fishing for Friends program – our referral program
- Further development and professional advancement
- Friendly and international working environment
Is IT in your DNA?
Top Skills
What We Do
D-ploy is an IT Engineering and Consulting Company with a wide portfolio of services and solutions suitable for globally as well as regionally operating companies.
Our strength is in providing proven standard and individually tailored solutions helping our customers achieve their strategic and business goals.
Our core competencies are operational IT Infrastructure services and consulting in the areas of Service Management, Program and Project Management as well as Quality Management.
Company Profile
Founded in January 2003 in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland, D-ploy has been growing steadily by expanding its expertise, portfolio and geographical presence across Europe and in the US. Our main focus has always been on ensuring that IT enables the Business, supports value generation and contributes to the overall work efficiency. With the customer-centric attitude and pragmatic approach to IT, we became a trusted and preferred IT partner to many customers proving again and again, that we can do IT.
Building our expertise and establishing long-term partnerships with our customers, we understand the value of sustainable practices driven by compliance with industry standards and implementing best practices. Therefore, since 2016 D-ploy has been ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 20000-1 and as of 2017 ISO/IEC 27001 certified.
We strive to continuously offer the most suitable and innovative service solutions to our current and future customers by staying agile, understanding the industry needs and keeping up to date on the market trends.
