Senior HR Business Partner

Join our high-performing global HR team, where success is made real.

The Senior HR Business Partner plays a key role in aligning HR strategies with business objectives, supporting a positive culture, and managing global multi-matrix structures. Key tasks include working with senior executives, improving talent management, and overseeing organizational change.
This full-time role can be based at our Global Headquarters in Schaan, Liechtenstein, or alternatively in Kaufering, Germany.

What You'll do

In this position, your focus area will be Global Operations: production, operational excellence, quality, logistics, and After Market Services. You will partner with senior business leaders and the HR community to drive the following topics:

• Translate business strategy into actionable people initiatives for the Business Unit, incorporating strategic workforce planning.
• Develop and implement together with the Talent Acquisition team strategies for talent attraction and hiring, aligning with Hilti's 80% internal promotion approach.
• Facilitate talent discussions, performance calibration, and succession planning with leadership teams to ensure current and future competencies.
• Challenge and support management teams in developing and delivering effective people plans and organizational/structural developments, acting as a change agent for employee engagement.
• Collaborate with other HR functions to share best practices, deliver value-added solutions, and implement core HR initiatives.
• Utilize HR analytics for data-driven insights, monitoring key metrics and trends for continuous improvement.
• Coach team leaders on people-related matters and ensure adherence to HR processes and standards at the management level.
• Contribute to the global HR community through participation in projects such as DEI, Total Rewards, and Skill Management, expanding HR competencies beyond the immediate area of responsibility.

What You’ll Bring

To help you succeed, we’ll provide you with everything you need so that we’re driving impact together from day one. You’ll find a stable working environment, exceptional support, learning and development, and a great team around you. Here’s what you’ll need to bring with you:

• Master’s degree in business administration, economics, HR, psychology, or related field.
• Extensive HR experience, ideally related to Operations (e.g. production, logistics, quality environments) and within an international matrix organization.
• Proven track record in managing strategic HR initiatives, showcasing a comprehensive grasp of various HR disciplines.
• Strong capability to deliver excellent consulting to business leaders and a passion for supporting and enabling the organization's People objectives.
• Fluent English; proficiency in German is an advantage.

What’s In It for You

We really value our people, and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this, creating your future to be just how you would want it. Some of our benefits include:

• Connection with a diverse community of over 2,100 colleagues from 70 nationalities in a region where Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland intersect.
• Employee groups actively supporting causes like female empowerment and the LGBTQIA+ community.
• Leisure activities like mountain biking and tennis.
• Opportunities for community engagement both locally and internationally.
• Shared e-bikes, an on-site gym, dining options, learning opportunities, financial guidance, free parking, fuel discounts, workation, sabbatical, home office opportunity, flexible and trust-based working hours, meditation/ relaxation rooms, Hilti tool rental service, massage possibilities, and relocation support.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

Join us in making construction better.
For further questions, please feel free to contact Carolin Porschen, Global Head of HR Business Areas, or Frances Bruno, Talent Acquisition Business Partner.
*For non-EU / EFTA citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in Liechtenstein and note that if you do not own a valid Liechtenstein work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.
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