Human Resources Consultant

Changing lives. Building Careers.

Joining us is a chance for you to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, more than 4,000 of us are challenging what's possible and making headway to help improve outcomes.

At Integra the work we do is important to create change and it is shaping the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, more than 4,400 global colleagues are challenging themselves with what's possible and making headway to help improve outcomes.

This role will operate as a HR Business Partner and consultant, working both strategically and hands-on, providing day-to-day HR support while driving key projects focused on compliance, labor requirements, HR delivery optimization, and organizational design. Driving HR alignment of the business and country strategies and organizational capabilities for multi-year growth for manufacturing plant(s), service and repair center(s) and HR management responsibilities for multiple countries in Europe. 

Roles & Responsibilities

HR Business Partnering & Operational Support

• Act as the interim HR Business Partner for day-to-day HR needs at two manufacturing facilities, one in Switzerland and the other and one service & repair site in Germany.

• Provide hands-on support for employee relations, policy interpretation, performance management, and HR compliance issues.

• Ensure effective handling of onboarding, offboarding, employment changes, and HR documentation in line with German labor law in collaboration with HR Shared Services.

Compliance & Labor Law

• Review and assess current labor compliance frameworks in Germany, identify gaps, and implement compliant, scalable HR practices.

• Serve as the HR compliance lead for Germany and provide guidance on topics such as working time regulations, work contract and termination documentation, etc.

Process Optimization & HR Operating Model

• Partner with HR Shared Services, Payroll, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, and HR Business Partners to create documentation for end-to-end HR delivery in Germany. Implement systems such as Workday effectively.

• Define and recommend best practices and operating model improvements for HR service delivery in Germany. Switzerland as required.

Strategic HR Support

• Provide strategic HR support to the Swiss manufacturing facility, focusing on talent development, organizational design and effectiveness.

• Advise and support organizational workforce planning, and operational efficiency initiatives across both Germany and Switzerland.

Cross-Border and Global Collaboration

• Work closely with global HR and business stakeholders, especially counterparts in the US headquarters, ensuring alignment with global policies and practices.

• Navigate and manage multi-lingual, multi-cultural environments, working effectively with French-speaking colleagues, as well as German and English-speaking stakeholders.

Qualifications 

• Minimum 10 years of HR related experience, including managing country regulations and People-centered change management activities

• Comfort operating in a business environment where workforce is fluent in German, English, and French

• Background in a strategic HR Business Partner required, experiences in a HR center of excellence including talent acquisition, total rewards, employee relations, or HR operations preferred

• Proven experience working in a human resources role within a manufacturing or similar workforce environment strongly preferred. Familiarity with managing the unique challenges of hourly workers, including scheduling, timekeeping, and labor relations.

• Experience with US-headquartered organizations strongly preferred

• Exposure to best-in-class, business-focused human resource functions, with a deep understanding of the impact and synergies between talent strategies and other human resource processes, such as rewards and compensation.

• Previous life sciences / MedTech sector experience or similar highly regulated environments highly preferred.

• Collaboration and influence across the company, without direct authority, a must.

• Ability to coach, mentor and advise where appropriate to help employees grow and develop alignment with business and personal goals

• Strong project management skills

• Strong facilitation skills, basic business acumen, analytical and strategic and critical thinking skills

• Experience with HR systems, payroll, & planning tools.  Experience with Workday a strong plus

• Good judgment and ability to balance the needs of the company, managers and employees

• Ability to demonstrate Integra values and an enterprise mindset.

Unsolicited Agency Submission

Integra LifeSciences does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs/resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. A formal written agreement is required before engaging any agency, and it must be executed and authorized by the Vice President, Talent Acquisition. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions (the initial sharing of a candidate's name, resume, or background) are position-specific and may only occur within the scope of that approved agreement. Please, no phone calls or emails.