At Fresenius Medical Care, we are the global leader in kidney care, committed to improving the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease. Our mission is to deliver high-quality, innovative products, services, and care across the entire healthcare journey. Guided by our vision—“Creating a future worth living. For patients. Worldwide. Every day.”—we work with purpose and compassion, supported by a global team of over 110,000 employees.
Within our Care Enablement segment, we develop and provide life-sustaining medical products, digital health solutions, and therapies that empower clinical teams and improve patient outcomes. Our FME Reignite strategy drives transformation through innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth.
Our values guide how we work:
We Care for our patients, each other, and our communities
We Connect across teams and borders to deliver excellence together
We Commit to doing things the right way— growing with purpose and leading kidney care with integrity and innovation
PURPOSE AND SCOPE:
As a Senior HR leader, the HR Cluster Lead is accountable for shaping and executing human resources strategy across a cluster of countries within the EMEA region. This role partners closely with Strategic Business partners, business leaders, HR Centers of Expertise (CoEs), and Shared Services to drive transformation, foster a high-performance culture, and ensure alignment between global initiatives and local execution.
Operating in a complex, matrixed environment, the HR Cluster Lead delivers expert guidance on all aspects of HR management—spanning strategic workforce planning, talent development, organizational design, and employee relations—while navigating local labor laws and labor relations frameworks. The role combines operational leadership with strategic influence, driving innovation and continuous improvement across both commercial and manufacturing organizations.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategic Leadership & HR Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of HR Country Partners, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide HR strategies and best practices.
- Drive global HR operational excellence, ensuring a consistent yet locally adaptable approach to HR
- Partner with senior Human Resource business partners and assigned Business leaders to align HR initiatives with business priorities, fostering a culture of engagement, performance, and accountability.
- Support CoE-driven HR initiatives, ensuring seamless integration into country specific HR operations.
- Partner with Employee Relations in ensuring fair and consistent resolution to complex ER matters in line with company policies and applicable labor laws.
- Cross-Border Collaboration: Coordinate and align HR strategies across countries in the cluster. Share best practices, harmonize procedures where possible, and adapt to market-specific needs.
Employee Experience & Engagement
- Act as a champion of company culture, embedding FME culture and core values into HR programs, and driving initiatives that enhance employee satisfaction and retention.
- Support change management efforts, ensuring HR teams are equipped to guide employees through organizational transformation and strategic shifts.
- Maximize effective usage of Shared services and HR technology platform
Compliance, Governance & Risk Management
- In partnership with ER, ensure HR policies, procedures, and programs are compliant with local labor laws while maintaining consistency with the company’s global HR framework.
- Collaborate with ER, Legal and Compliance teams to mitigate HR-related risks and uphold the highest standards of ethical and regulatory compliance.
Supervision
Supervise 6 HRCPs Countries: Turkey, Morocco, KSA, UAE, Egipt, South Africa, Russia
Your profile:
- Bachelor’s Degree; Advanced Degree desirable
- Extensive professional experience (approximately 12-15 years), including substantial (at least 5 years) managerial experience, as well as in-depth knowledge of Human Resources. Multi-country experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to be an agent of change.
- It is resilient and can navigate challenging or difficult situations with the ability to hold crucial conversations.
- Collaborates at all levels through listening, sharing, and building upon ideas, challenging others’ ideas respectfully, compromises and adapts to achieving common goals that are the best interests of the organization, and the teams involved.
- Competence in software applications relating to human resources such as case management systems and Workday is preferred along with the suite of Microsoft Office products.
- Demonstrates excellent communication skills - both written and verbal including English
- Can work independently and can manage multiple competing priorities.
- Has strong business acumen in addition to Human Resources skills.
- Has an unquestionable commitment to confidentiality, integrity, and privacy.
- Healthcare experience a plus.
- Advanced influential Skills
Our Offer For You:
There is a lot you can discover at Fresenius Medical Care, regardless in which field you are an expert and how much experience you have - all dedicated to your professional journey.
Whether in front of or behind the scenes - you are helping to make ever better medicine available to more and more people around the world
Individual opportunities for self-determined career planning and professional development
A corporate culture in which there is enough room for innovative thinking - to find the best solution together, not the quickest one
A large number of committed people with a wide range of skills, talents and experience
The benefits of a successful global corporation with the collegial culture of a medium-sized company
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree
- Advanced Degree
- Approximately 12-15 years of professional HR experience
- At least 5 years of managerial experience
- Multi-country / regional HR experience
- Demonstrated ability to lead change and act as an agent of change
- Resilience and ability to hold crucial conversations
- Strong collaboration skills across levels and matrix environments
- Competence with HR software (case management systems, Workday) and HR technology platforms
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including English
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple competing priorities
- Strong business acumen in addition to HR expertise
- Unquestionable commitment to confidentiality, integrity, and privacy
- Healthcare experience
- Advanced influencing skills
- People leadership experience supervising HR Country Partners across multiple countries
Fresenius Medical Care Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fresenius Medical Care and has not been reviewed or approved by Fresenius Medical Care.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is described as ample for 3x12-hour shifts and is complemented by paid caregiver leave, holidays, and sick time. This range of time-off options provides meaningful flexibility for many roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage includes 100% preventive care, office-visit copays, prescription coverage, and disability insurance, while dental covers preventive, basic, and major restorative services up to an annual limit. Vision benefits are also available.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness programs feature the Rally app with fitness rewards, virtual therapy, and an Employee Assistance Program with free counseling. Additional offerings like digital physical therapy and expert medical opinions broaden holistic support.
Fresenius Medical Care Insights
What We Do
Fresenius Medical Care is the world’s leading provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases. We aim to create a future worth living for chronically and critically ill patients – worldwide and every day. Thanks to our decades of experience in dialysis, our innovative research and our value-based care approach, we can help them to enjoy the very best quality of life. Our portfolio encompasses a comprehensive range of high-quality health care products and services as well as various dialysis treatment options for both in-center and home dialysis that are individually tailored to our patients’ needs.
