Job Summary
People & Culture: Fostering a purpose-driven, inclusive culture where talent thrives, leadership grows and every employee is empowered to make joy.
As Senior HRBP Germany, you will serve as the primary HR partner for business leaders across Germany, providing strategic advice and guidance on people, organizational, and labor-related matters. You will also oversee the delivery of local HR operations across the full employee lifecycle, ensuring a consistent, compliant, and high-quality employee experience while partnering closely with COEs and shared services teams.
Where You Will Make an Impact
Service Delivery & Operational Excellence
Own the delivery and quality of People Services across the full employee lifecycle (hire-to-retire) at country / cluster level, ensuring a seamless employee experience.
Ensure compliant, timely, and accurate execution of HR operational processes in line with local labor law, regulatory requirements, and global HR standards.
Execute global COE cycles locally (Talent Management, Learning, Compensation, and Talent Acquisition); ensure readiness and on-time delivery.
Act as the primary owner of local People Services outcomes, including onboarding, employee data integrity, employee relations case management, life-cycle events, and offboarding.
Drive stabilization, standardization, and continuous improvement of local HR processes.
Own the local employee and manager experience for enterprise HR programs; ensure communications, readiness, and adoption.
Monitor performance, data quality, and SLAs; identify root causes and implement corrective actions in partnership with Shared Services and overall HR function areas.
Ensure accurate and consistent use of HR systems, working closely with Payroll and HR Shared Services. Provide visibility of relevant HR metrics and KPIs (SLA, data quality, Tier 2 responsiveness).
Lead and operate in close collaboration with HR Shared Service Center and COEs, ensuring alignment of decisions, efficiency and adoption of the HR operating model.
Employee Relations
Advise leaders on employee relations matters, performance concerns, and conduct issues, ensuring consistency with HR policies and local requirements.
Apply sound judgment to assess complexity and risk, escalating cases appropriately to People Services Regional Leadership, Legal, among other stakeholders.
Conduct or partner with colleagues on investigations and formal disciplinary actions.
Reinforce fair, consistent, and transparent application of HR policies by contributing to crisis mgmt. and risk mitigation at local level.
Provide local perspective to regional or global initiatives, impacting the country. Protect global standards; route exceptions following governance guidelines.
What Makes You the Right Fit
10+ years of progressive HR experience in complex regulatory environments.
Proven background in HR operations, employee relations, and HR Services delivery.
Proven COE partnership: translate global design into local execution and adoption.
Strong HR systems/process discipline (data quality, controls, and change adoption).
Hands‑on experience transitioning or operating within a Shared Services HR model.
Strong understanding of end-to-end HR processes and critical labor environments.
How Would You Stand Out?
Strong operational leadership mindset, combined with the ability to influence and manage stakeholders without direct authority across a matrixed HR organization.
Excellent judgment and decision making within defined governance frameworks.
Data driven approach to service quality, experience, and continuous improvement.
Credible advisor to senior leaders with the confidence to challenge constructively.
Fluent in German and English is required, additional languages a strong advantage.
Availability to regular travel within country.
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
Skills Required
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience in complex regulatory environments
- Experience in HR operations, employee relations, and HR services delivery
- Experience partnering with centers of expertise and translating global HR programs into local execution
- Strong HR systems and process discipline, including data quality, controls, and change adoption
- Hands-on experience transitioning or operating within a shared services HR model
- Strong understanding of end-to-end HR processes and labor environments
- Ability to influence and manage stakeholders without direct authority in a matrixed organization
- Strong judgment and decision-making within governance frameworks
- Data-driven approach to service quality, employee experience, and continuous improvement
- Credible advisory skills with senior leaders and ability to challenge constructively
- Fluent German and English
- Additional languages
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IFF Family of Companies and has not been reviewed or approved by IFF Family of Companies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is in place. This policy is positioned as a notable component of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Core offerings include paid time off, sick days, holidays, and sabbatical leave. Flexible scheduling options such as compressed workweeks and hybrid/remote arrangements are available where feasible.
IFF Family of Companies Insights
What We Do
Meet IFF: We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs. An industry leader in food, beverage, health and biosciences, we create essential solutions – from global icons to unexpected innovations and experiences. Equal parts outspoken and analytical, our international collective of thinkers working with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products people crave. With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, we’re poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldn’t be the same. Visit us at www.iff.com to learn more about how our talented people and new technology are challenging the expected, championing creators and doing more good for people and planet. Explore what sets us apart.
