Senior Director, Human Resources, EMEA
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22 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Senior Director HR EMEA serves as the key strategic business partner to the SVP Dematic EMEA and is a critical member of the Dematic HR Leadership Team. This executive partners closely with senior leaders across the region to develop and execute the people culture and organizational strategies needed to advance Dematics growth market leadership and customer value delivery. The role leads a team of five directreport HR Business Partners and a broader HR organization of 30 professionals supporting 3600 employees across EMEA.
This leader collaborates deeply with global HR COEs to drive enterprisealigned talent culture and organizational solutions. Success is measured through succession readiness highpotential retention employee engagement internal mobility diversity in leadership organizational simplification and reduction of voluntary turnover.
This leader collaborates deeply with global HR COEs to drive enterprisealigned talent culture and organizational solutions. Success is measured through succession readiness highpotential retention employee engagement internal mobility diversity in leadership organizational simplification and reduction of voluntary turnover.
We offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Tasks and Qualifications:
This is what you will do in this role:
- Strategic Business Partnership: Serve as the primary HR advisor to the SVP Dematic EMEA and senior regional leadership shaping organizational talent and workforce strategies aligned to the business strategy.
- Organizational Design and Simplification: Lead efforts that optimize structure scalability efficiency and overall organizational health across EMEA to support operational performance and strategic growth.
- Culture and Change Leadership: Drive a strong leadership culture aligned with Dematics values; lead complex change initiatives that strengthen engagement accountability and organizational effectiveness.
- Succession Planning and Leadership Pipeline: Build robust talent pipelines through disciplined succession planning leadership assessment and targeted development actions for critical roles.
- Talent Retention Engagement and Employee Movement: Enable datadriven strategies to retain highpotential talent improve employee engagement and increase internal mobility across the region and enterprise.
- Workforce Planning and Strategic Capability Building: Partner with business leaders to anticipate capability needs shape futureready skills and align workforce plans with growth priorities in engineering and technologydriven environments.
- Diversity in Leadership: Drive actions that strengthen diversity in leadership roles and ensure equitable development and advancement opportunities across EMEA.
- Leadership of HRBP Team and HR Operational Excellence: Lead and develop the EMEA HRBP team; ensure consistent HR processes governance compliance and operational excellence while focusing on strategic impact and delivery.
What we are looking for:
- 12 years of progressive HR leadership experience including significant experience in engineering and/or technologydriven organizations
- Bachelors degree required; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred
- Fluent in English
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate strategy into people and organizational actions
- Executive influence presence and credibility with senior leaders
- Strategic agility and systems thinking applied to complex matrixed environments
- Expert capability in org design change leadership and cultural transformation
- Datadriven decision making and talent analytics capability
- Leadership coaching talent development and team-building expertise
- Ability to navigate globalregionallocal dynamics with collaboration and alignment
- High judgment discretion and ability to manage sensitive organizational dynamics
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Talent Management
- Employee Relations
- Succession Planning
- Employee Evaluation
- Human Resources Management
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Benefits Administration
- HRIS
- Training & Development
- Employment & Labor Law
- Organization Design
- Human Resources
About Company
We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.
