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Junior HR Team Lead with German

The Opportunity: 

Join our HR Operations team in a role where your work truly makes an impact. You will play a key role in delivering high‑quality HR administration (Compenstation & Benefits ansd time remanagement related topics) and employee data management, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and a smooth experience.

In this position, you will manage employee records across HR systems, support core HR activities. As a Team Leader (M1), you will lead and support a team, set daily operational priorities, and ensure HR policies and processes are consistently applied.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys leading people, driving operational excellence, and improving ways of working in a collaborative HR environment.
 

How You'll Make an Impact:

  • Manage a team of HR Operations specialists through organizing and prioritization of running operations, workload, and special projects to deliver best in class HR service support to HR communities, business managers and employees.
  • Ensure timely and accurate processing of requests related to Employee Lifecycle / Payroll / Time Management according to the defined Service Level Agreements
  • Drive a high level of Customer Satisfaction and handle escalations.
  • Ensure that the team meets all compliance and control requirements.
  • Ensure process stabilization after HR transformation projects including proper scope management.
  • Propose and drive process improvement / standardization across countries in scope.
  • Drive appropriate people management activities to maintain or build up a high-performance team.
  • Work closely with other HR roles and maintain good working relationship with them.

Your Background:

  • Experience in process management/coordination in HR Shared Service environment.
  • Knowledge of Payroll & Compensation/ Time Management process specific required
  • People management experience would be an asset.
  • Excellent workload management skills and organization, strong customer service orientation, very good communication, and proactive way of working
  • Attention to detail and strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
  • Basic project management skills: break a topic into task, plan in time, allocate resources, follow the progress.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Workday & Service Now
  • Knowledge of Celergo / ADP payroll systems would be an asset.
  • Languages: advanced English, advanced German will be strong asset

More About Us: 

We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us, in work and out. 

We are committed to full transparency and compliance with all legal requirements, ensuring that every candidate knows exactly what to expect at each stage of the recruitment process. Once the process is successfully completed, we will share detailed information about financial conditions and benefits with the selected candidate. Before signing the employment contract, you will receive all remaining details of the offer, giving you the time and space to review everything carefully.*

*Applicable  only for Poland location align with local law regulations 

Location Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
Job type Full time
Experience Management
Job function Human Resources
Contract Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)
Publication date 2026-06-19
Reference number R0127626

About Hitachi Energy

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.