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Picnic

App-based online grocery delivery service

HR Business Partner

HR Generalist & Employee RelationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLangenfeld, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A successfully completed bachelor's and master's degree in human resources, law, or a similar field.
  • At least 4 years of professional experience as an HR Business Partner or in a comparable HR position; experience in a dynamic, high-growth operations or logistics environment is advantageous.
  • Demonstrated success coordinating complex HR projects across multiple sites.
  • Strong knowledge of German labor law and practical confidence working with employee representatives and workplace committees.
  • Fluent German and English language skills for communication in an international environment.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a strategic partner to site leadership, provide feedback on leadership culture, and coach leaders to independently address challenges such as absenteeism and employee retention.
  • Identify recurring patterns across individual cases and shifts, determine root causes, and develop standardized solutions across sites, such as in absence management.
  • Connect people key performance indicators with operational goals, develop business cases, and help leaders make clear, sustainable decisions.
  • Manage several HR projects, escalations, and operational decisions in parallel, prioritizing work as circumstances change, including during peak seasons and ramp-ups.
  • Set high HR quality and compliance standards and ensure People processes are conducted consistently and in compliance with employment law.
  • Align stakeholder interests, anticipate the impact of decisions on employees, and guide operational teams through change initiatives.
  • Provide functional leadership and development for the local People team, set priorities for day-to-day work, and coach colleagues.
  • Work regularly onsite at the fulfillment centers in Langenfeld, Mülheim, and Hamm.

Desired Qualifications

  • Prior initial leadership experience or experience providing functional mentoring.
  • Experience in a dynamic, high-growth operations or logistics environment.

About the Company

Picnic

App-based online grocery delivery service

Picnic delivers groceries through a mobile app-based service. Customers order from a wide product range in the app, and centralized hubs plus optimized routing handle warehousing, picking, and last-mile delivery to homes. It differentiates itself by being app-only with no physical stores, which lowers overhead and enables free delivery in its regions (Netherlands, Germany, and France). Its goal is to make groceries affordable and convenient through a simple app experience while expanding across Europe and forming partnerships to enhance shopping.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$1.9B
Headquarters
Amsterdam-Duivendrecht, Netherlands
Founded
2015

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