HR Manager/in - Setup & Recruiting (m/f/d)

It's the end of the workday, and you leave the office, happy and with a good feeling. Your first day at PRESCH was simply great 🔥

You've met your team, taken a first look at the personnel files, and have the open positions on your desk. You immediately realize: here, we don't just talk, we act.

And you notice something else. This position doesn't exist with us yet. HR has been handled on the side so far, spread across two shoulders who actually have other tasks. This means for you: you're not inheriting structures, you're building them.

We are 22 people and will hire five to ten more in the next twelve months. Growth, not replacement – we hardly lose anyone. That's precisely why we're not looking for someone to sort personnel files, but someone who will build an HR function from the ground up and then operate it 💪

You will report directly to management. If you've done this before and want to do it again, we should talk.

Responsibilities

🛠️ You will be responsible for our complete personnel administration. Preparatory payroll and salary processing with our tax advisor, contracts, digital personnel file, absences, employment certificates, and travel expenses. Not forwarding, but taking responsibility – including plausibility checks before payment.

🛠️ You will take over our recruiting up to the interview stage. We decide which position to fill. You will refine the profile, seniority, and salary band together with us. Posting, channels, applicant management, pre-selection, and scheduling will then be your responsibility. We will join at the personal interview stage at the latest.

🛠️ You will build our employer brand and our own recruiting channels. Career page, review profiles, active outreach. Today, we receive too few applications for our own job postings and buy the rest. You will turn this around.

🛠️ You will implement our HR system. Time tracking, vacation, digital personnel file. You will be involved in the selection, implementation, and data migration – you will decide, rather than inheriting a system.

🛠️ You will write our processes and policies. Mobile working, onboarding, contract structure. Everything that is currently a case-by-case decision will become a process under your responsibility.

🛠️ You will be responsible for the onboarding process. With this hiring pace, culture is determined at the start – not later. Professional induction remains with the managers; the process is yours.

🛠️ You will coordinate and document occupational health and safety. You will organizationally track risk assessments, training, occupational medical check-ups, and first-aiders and document them completely. Professionally, you will work with our external specialist partners and the managers – as a manufacturer of tools and personal protective equipment, we take this topic particularly seriously.

🛠️ You will provide HR key figures to management. Personnel cost ratio, headcount planning, time to fill, sickness rate. So that we can steer and not guess.

Your Impact after 12 months

🛠️ Payroll, contracts, and absences will run without management involvement. We will only look at approvals.

🛠️ Our HR system will be live, vacation balances will be retrievable on a daily basis, and personnel files will be fully digital.

🛠️ Our job postings will receive significantly more suitable applications than today. We will only need external recruiters for specialist roles.

🛠️ Every new colleague will be ready to work from day one: workplace, access, materials, and induction plan will be prepared beforehand.

🛠️ Our HR processes and occupational health and safety documentation will be cleanly set up. You will know where we stand at all times.

🛠️ Within the company, you will be the go-to person for all HR-related topics.

Qualifications

🛠️ Several years of experience as an HR generalist. Broad, not specialized – you have experience with payroll, contracts, recruiting, and employee matters concurrently.

🛠️ You have built up HR before, not just managed it. Implemented a system, written policies, established processes. This is the most important point on this list.

🛠️ Preparatory payroll and salary processing is solid. You have worked with an external payroll office or tax advisor and reviewed the reports, rather than just approving them.

🛠️ You reliably apply labor and social security law. And you reliably recognize when a case belongs to a specialist lawyer. Both are equally important to us.

🛠️ You have managed recruiting independently. From clarifying needs with the department to pre-selection. You know channels that work and understand why some job postings remain unfilled.

🛠️ You work independently. We don't assign tasks to you; we delegate responsibility. We make personnel decisions together, and you shape the path to get there.

🛠️ Discretion is a matter of course for you. You have access to everything. This requires trust, in both directions.

🛠️ You use AI as a work tool – or want to start. We use it throughout the company. If you have already built templates, reports, or workflows with it: even better.

🛠️ Very good German. English is helpful for international topics and colleagues, but it is not a mandatory criterion.

Bonus: If you bring a policy or an onboarding concept that you have written yourself – show it to us. We want to see how you think, not just what's on your CV.

Benefits

🛠️ You will build your own function. This position does not exist with us yet. You decide what HR at PRESCH looks like – and where the function grows, from personnel development to compensation structure, you will have a say.

🛠️ You are the first HR person at PRESCH, but not alone. For payroll and tax matters, our tax advisor is available, for labor law cases a specialist lawyer, and in accounting, you have a colleague who will represent you.

🛠️ Flexitime. Do you want to dedicate the same time to your job and family and therefore long for a flexible working time model? No problem! We integrate work into our lives, not the other way around.

🛠️ Home office days. After your induction, you will work flexibly from home in agreement with the team. You will be present in person where it matters: for meetings, onboardings, and team exchanges.

🛠️ You want to develop further, undertake further training in labor law, or attend an HR conference? Alright, let's go! We place great importance on your further education and create the financial and time framework for it.

🛠️ Company pension plan with our subsidy.

🛠️ 30 days of vacation.

🛠️ Employee discount on our entire tool assortment.

🛠️ Our hierarchies are flat, and the team spirit is strong: we celebrate our success. Knowledge sharing, mulled wine evenings, BBQs, and regular team events await you. Drinks are of course provided.

🛠️ You will be involved in all the happenings of our young and growing company and will lead your own projects.

If you want to build HR, not just manage it, we look forward to hearing from you!

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