HR Business Partner - German Speaking (m/w/d) at Dyson in Germany

HR Business Partner - German Speaking (m/w/d) Location: Germany - Cologne Office About us Our People team is at the heart of Dyson’s global growth, shaping the experience of every individual who joins and thrives within our business. We activate Dyson’s unique philosophy and values across the entire employee lifecycle—from attracting and hiring the best talent to developing and retaining exceptional people. In a fast-moving, constantly evolving organization, our People team drives meaningful change and influences decisions that shape Dyson’s future. Joining us means being part of a collaborative, forward-thinking function that champions innovation, empowers individuals, and helps maintain Dyson’s competitive edge through its most valuable asset: its people. About the role As HR BP you will report into the Senior HR BP for DACHP (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland). In the role of HR Business Partner, you'll work closely with functional teams, people managers, and leaders to support our retail teams throughout Germany. Your will be supporting the development of people strategies and planning activities that enhance organizational effectiveness and drive impactful results for both the business and our people. You'll handle day-to-day HR activities, including operational queries, managing employee records, coordinating onboarding and offboarding, resolving operational issues, supporting performance management, handling misconduct cases, and assisting with recruitment. Responsibilities: Work in collaboration with the German leadership and other senior leaders in their teams.  Provide support to deliver actions that’ll drive people and organization performance, including development of their own team. People plans – implement the people plan to support delivery of the Germany and DACHP & Global People Blueprint.  Facilitate the implications of business goals and ensure plans in place to tackle risks, challenges and opportunities over the short and long term. Ensure the right capabilities, frameworks and ways of working are in place to deliver Manage employee relations issues, including disciplinary and grievance procedure Collaborate with Dyson shared services team to deliver end to end Payroll and Admin for all employees. Talent acquisition - Work with Centers of Expertise to ensure effective hiring strategies; ensure teams are recruiting for the future as well as the now. Talent development & career – Provide the framework and facilitate talent moves and succession.  Ensure key roles are resourced with great talent, future leaders developed, career paths/aspirations supported, and succession/capability risks understood and managed. Performance management – Develop and champion high performance culture across your function. Coach, influence, up-skill and encourage senior leaders to provide clear direction, and line managers to provide continuous goal clarity, feedback and development. Manage employee relations issues, including disciplinary and grievance procedure Able to dive into data and details and analyse, interpret and present back to the business Proven track record of delivering results and driving employee engagement About you Experience as an HR Generalist within a retail or high-volume environment Must have, speak German & English (full professional proficiency) You will have previous experience of 3-5 years as a true HR generalist where you have provided both operational and strategic HR support to a business in a global, matrixed organisation. HR partnering experience - typically supporting professional client groups (who enjoy logic, process and detail) with experience of engaging and influencing senior and challenging stakeholders. Strong legal experience & knowledge about German labour law Great relationship builder connects effectively across a range of senior professional leaders and personalities and can works effectively across boundaries and networks. Results driven. Tenacious and determined to get things done in the face of ambiguity and even opposition; and inspires others to do the same. Change management experience - has provided frameworks, influence and challenge to senior teams to identify and drive through organisation change in a variety of scenarios Experienced at working with speed, pragmatism and professionalism, ideally in an entrepreneurial culture. Passion to contribute to on development of high-performance culture and culture of motivation & satisfaction Open, practical and pragmatic.  Able to balance a high volume of conflicting priorities and works with energy and pace. Resilient and tough; bounces back when knocked. Benefits At Dyson, Reward goes beyond just salary and bonuses. Through a comprehensive package of Financial, Lifestyle, and Health Benefits, we provide support tailored to every stage of life and the moments that matter most. #LI-RK2 Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.