Full-Time

Senior HR Business Partner

Posted on 8/21/2026

LGC Group

LGC Group

1,001-5,000 employees

Sells oligos, probes, primers, viral materials

No salary listed

Luckenwalde, Germany

Hybrid

At least three days on-site per week required.

Category
People & HR (1)
Required Skills
Data Analysis
Excel/Numbers/Sheets

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Requirements
  • Significant generalist human resources experience with in-depth understanding across all human resources disciplines in the employee lifecycle; professional qualification is ideal.
  • Ability to work strategically and operationally, including designing and delivering strategic human resources initiatives and delivering quality human resources operational services.
  • Extensive, in-depth experience in organisational design and development.
  • Significant experience designing and managing complex change initiatives, including restructurings and culture change.
  • Demonstrable in-depth experience designing and delivering training and learning interventions.
  • Sound commercial and financial understanding, good numeracy skills, excellent Microsoft Excel skills, good general information technology skills, and understanding of artificial intelligence and its application in human resources.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to influence at all levels, and good facilitation and presentation skills.
  • Proactive, self-starting, energetic, engaging, and results-oriented approach with a track record of delivering quality work and projects on time.
  • Excellent employment law knowledge and significant experience advising on and handling employee relations matters and collaborating with works council bodies.
  • Experience analysing and using human resources data to identify trends and people priorities.
  • Experience championing and delivering diversity, equality, inclusion, and belonging initiatives.
  • Good stakeholder management and coaching skills; certified coaching qualification is ideal.
  • Proven ability to work in a matrix organisation, prioritise across geographies and local initiatives, balance priorities, and understand key performance indicators and success measures.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with business unit leadership teams to develop and deliver the local people strategy supporting organisational and team effectiveness and business objectives.
  • Support and coach leaders and managers in designing and implementing effective organisational structures and creating teams and work environments that support engagement and performance.
  • Ensure effective people management practices are in place.
  • Provide human resources and project management expertise for organisational change, including reorganisations and cultural alignment.
  • Develop and use people analytics to monitor effectiveness, inform business decisions, and recommend solutions to improve engagement and performance and manage and retain talent.
  • Advise on and manage employee relations matters and apply learning from employee relations cases to develop people-manager capability.
  • Champion and drive diversity, equality, inclusion, and belonging initiatives and support an inclusive culture across the employee journey.
  • Collaborate with human resources Centres of Excellence and Human Resources Operations to align wider people initiatives and operations with local human resources practices.
  • Work with global and local human resources business partner teams and contribute to projects and high-quality human resources operational support.
  • Lead and coordinate a comprehensive performance-management approach across stakeholders in collaboration with Centres of Excellence.
  • Assess, plan, and manage LGC talent, focusing on learning and engagement and using global tools to deliver local results.
  • Design and deliver training to develop the competence and capability of colleagues and people managers, improve performance, and support people initiatives and business objectives.
Desired Qualifications
  • Professional human resources qualification.
  • Certified coaching qualification.

LGC Group provides life-sciences tools and services worldwide, including oligo components, probes, primers, recombinant viral materials, and proficiency-testing schemes for food safety. Its products support vaccine development, diagnostics, and therapies through mass spectrometry, immunoassays, and nucleic acid chemistry. It differentiates itself with a broad catalog of high-quality tools plus global proficiency-testing services and a wide customer base across diagnostics, healthcare, and pharma. Its goal is to improve healthcare outcomes and help create safer vaccines and treatments by delivering reliable tools and quality services.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

1841

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • LGC bought ChromaDex Reference Standards on 26 February 2026, expanding North American reach.
  • LGC opened its CAD$100 million Vaughan synthesis center in 2026, increasing chemistry capacity.
  • DiaMex integration keeps widening LGC's clinical diagnostics portfolio after the 4 December 2024 deal.

What critics are saying

  • S&P kept LGC at B-/Stable in 2025, citing 12x-13x leverage.
  • Cinven and Astorg own LGC, keeping exit pressure and debt servicing overhang high.
  • Thermo Fisher, Bio-Rad, and Randox squeeze margins in controls, standards, and diagnostics.
  • If 2026 integration or capex disappoints, lenders force asset sales or refinancing.

What makes LGC Group unique

  • LGC's 3,000-plus ChromaDex standards deepens its reference-material moat across regulated labs.
  • LGC Axolabs Berlin adds cGMP oligonucleotide API manufacturing, spanning discovery through commercial supply.
  • LGC's National Laboratory role and proficiency-testing franchises embed it in compliance workflows.

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6 month growth

-8%

1 year growth

-8%

2 year growth

-8%
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