Group Head of HR Vice President of Human Resources

Do you want to make a difference with your career by helping the world manage valuable resources
better? Join us as

**Group Head of HR | Vice President of Human Resources**:

- Take your next career step with GWF, a diverse, growing and increasingly global team. As a long-term oriented family business and building on our 123-year history, we have developed and are executing a strategy fueled by investments in innovative products, technologies and customer orientation. Our people and solutions make a lasting impact on the environment by providing innovative measurement technologies for valuable resources like water, wastewater, gas, heating, and electricity.
- In this newly defined role, you will enable the success of our strategy and focus on designing, setting up and leading an effective group-wide HR function. You will create new HR competences, design new processes, and implement systems to support and sustain those. You will be involved in organizational change and transformation programs and ensure the further advancement of our company culture. This is a strategic, and fulfilling role for someone who wants to shape, move, and build an HR organization beyond the traditional support function paradigm. In this pivotal role, where you will build a group-wide HR team around you, you are not alone. Our existing HR specialists as well as the Chief Strategy Officer and the CEO will fully support your efforts to shape the future.**Your work and responsibilities**
- Embody our employee-oriented, values-driven culture and way of working
- Define as well as purposefully communicate our employer value proposition
- Function as a strategic advisor and coach to senior management regarding key organizational and corporate development topics
- Evolve HR into a group-wide team and ensure a solid appreciation of the local office cultures Utilize modern talent acquisition techniques including partnerships with academic institutions, and vocational programs
- Craft and implement a group-wide professional learning and development program Craft and roll-out a plan to retain our top talent
- Drive the digitalization of HR processes
- Frequent travel between our offices is required to strengthen relations with local management

**Your Background**
- Passion for people and change management
- 6+ years of experience in a leading HR role, preferably in a mature company with advanced people practices
- Experience in the tech/manufacturing industry with hand-on mentality and eagerness to engage in an SME setup
- Experience in setting up a new organization and driving change, aligning people towards a common cause
- Familiarity with a diverse colleague base ranging from tech talent to manufacturing specialists Exposure to executive work and proven track record in coaching the C-level
- Broad management foundation and basic understanding of concepts around finance, operations, supply chain management, software development and new product introduction is highly desirable
- Excellent written & verbal, structured communication skills in English and German

**Further, you have**
- High level of commitment, goal orientation and demonstrated problem-solving skills
- Entrepreneurial thinking with a bias for action (“ask for forgiveness, not for permission”) Interest in the topics of technology, sustainability and social responsibility of companies Proven to have successfully worked with people from various cultural, educational, and social backgrounds

**We offer**
- Lots of room and freedom to leave your mark
- A fun and achievement-oriented work environment in a growth-oriented company with a long history of technology innovation
- Learning and growth opportunities in an international company setup with ambitious colleagues Collaboration opportunities with experienced colleagues in an international environment Individual development and training opportunities, from job specific to soft skills
- Flexible working models

**Interested?**

We are a growing, supportive, and agile SME environment where actions count more than words.

We hold a worldwide leading position in the niche market of flow data measurement and collection, especially for water, heat, and natural gas consumption data.

We are a creative, proud Swiss company with over a century‘s metering experience, currently undergoing a wave of dynamic technology and infrastructure investments.

We combine high-precision measuring instruments with our in-house developed and globally installed GWFcoder® technology to deliver advanced and reliable ICT solutions.

We pursue a visionary digital strategy to create a modern customer experience though internally digitized end-to-end processes and new data-enabled offerings.

GWF MessSysteme AG | Obergrundstrasse 119 | 6005 Lucerne, Switzerland | **gwf.ch