- Steer and coordinate HR Operations across 10 European countries, ensuring standardized processes, high data accuracy, compliant execution, and smooth cross-country collaboration
- Act as the central operational HR contact and trusted partner to the Head of HR, supporting complex cases and relieving day-to-day operational workload
- Lead, develop, and prioritize the HR Operations Specialist and Payroll Specialist, ensuring quality standards, efficient collaboration, and continuous upskilling
- Design, implement, and continuously optimize lean end-to-end HR core processes (including Payroll), ensuring accuracy, compliance, scalability, and structural improvements
- Own and govern HR policies, guidelines, SOPs, documentation standards, and operational controls, ensuring legal compliance and consistent company-wide communication
- Drive HRIS (Personio) administration and optimization, including system configuration, workflows, data integrity, KPI monitoring (speed, accuracy, SLA), and operational performance improvements
- Act as key interface to Finance, IT, Legal, and country teams, ensuring cross-functional alignment, audit readiness, data protection compliance, and clear communication of operational changes
HR Operations Lead (m/f/d)
Essen
Full-time
Permanent employee
Your mission
The HR Operations Lead plays a key role in taking our existing HR processes to the next stage of growth. While core structures and workflows are already in place, this role ensures they become lean, scalable, data-reliable, and fit for a multi-country setup. Reporting directly to the Head of HR, the HR Operations Lead drives operational excellence across 11 European countries, safeguards high-quality execution, and enables smooth, compliant, and efficient HR service delivery as we scale.
Your profile
- 5+ years of experience in HR Operations, HR Administration, or HR Core Processes. Experience in international or fast-scaling companies is an advantage
- Leadership experience with the ability to guide, develop, and coach team members
- Strong process design and optimization skills, with the ability to create workflows and structures from scratch
- Deep understanding of HR operations, including payroll interfaces, HR data management, employee lifecycle operations, and compliance
- Very good payroll knowledge, including collaboration with external payroll providers and understanding of regulatory frameworks
- Excellent organizational and analytical abilities, with a hands-on, pragmatic approach
- Strong communication skills, able to translate complex structures into clear and user-friendly guidance
- High sense of ownership and reliability, combined with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Fluency in English and German, along with strong knowledge of Personio
Why us?
- People take centre stage: Become part of a dynamic, ambitious and agile team that develops solutions for the eMobility market and be part of our EDRI events or the next after-work event
- With us, you get the best of both worlds - 100% start-up with the support of a large company
- The freedom you need: We offer you hybrid working with flexible working hours
- Workation: Enjoy the flexibility to work temporarily from abroad – within the EU
- You will receive a competitive salary with a performance-related bonus
- A company pension scheme is of course also one of the benefits with us
- Sustainable learning opportunities: We support you with a training budget of 5,000 euros per year
- You get everything you need to get started: onboarding with welcome gifts and all the hardware you need
Contact
Diversity counts at E.ON. We welcome all people and are convinced that differences make us stronger. Become part of our inclusive and diverse corporate culture!
Seize the opportunity to become part of our E.ON Drive Infrastructure team and not only create prospects for the future of E.ON, but also for your own.
We look forward to getting to know you!
Lisa
Recruiting and Employer Branding Manager
Do you have any questions or difficulties with your application? Please contact me at lisa.wuerpel@edri.com or LinkedIn.
Seize the opportunity to become part of our E.ON Drive Infrastructure team and not only create prospects for the future of E.ON, but also for your own.
We look forward to getting to know you!
Lisa
Recruiting and Employer Branding Manager
Do you have any questions or difficulties with your application? Please contact me at lisa.wuerpel@edri.com or LinkedIn.
About us
E.ON Drive Infrastructure (EDRI) is a pan-European market leading charge point operator owned by the E.ON group. EDRI builds, owns, and operates public charging infrastructure for all types of electric vehicles. The company purpose is to build a sustainable world, by providing charging for everyone, everywhere. The team currently employs more than 170 people and operates more than 7.000 public charging points across 11 European countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Together with location partners EDRI will expand its network by installing 1,000 additional high power charging points per year.