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HR Operations Lead (m/​f/​d)

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • E.ON Drive Infrastructure
  • Full time
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HR Operations Lead (m/f/d)

E.ON Drive Infrastructure

E.ON Drive Infrastructure (EDRI) is a market-leading charging station operator across Europe and part of the E.ON Group. EDRI builds, owns, and operates public charging infrastructure for all types of electric vehicles. The company's goal is to create a sustainable world by providing charging stations for everyone, everywhere.

The team currently employs more than 170 people and operates over 6,600 public charging points in 10 European countries: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary, and Romania. Together with site partners, EDRI will expand its network by installing an additional 1,000 high-power charging points per year.

HR Operations Lead (m/f/d)

Location: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Job description

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.
  • 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

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

What else you should know:

Employment type:Full time
Work Model:Hybrid
Company:E.ON Drive Infrastructure
Job number:2537277

What makes EDRI stand out as an employer

  • Home office option

  • Flexible working hours

  • Performance-related bonus

  • Standard number of vacation days

  • Personal training budget

  • Teamevents

Recruiter

Recruiting and Employer Branding Manager

Any questions?

Lisa will be happy to answer any questions you may have by e-mail.

lisa.wuerpel@edri.com

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LOVE

TRUST

DO

How we work at EDRI

Sustainability is at the heart of what we do – our EDRI goal is to create a sustainable world by providing charging infrastructure for everyone, everywhere. We plan, install, and operate a network of public charging infrastructure that supplies all electric vehicles with 100% green electricity and contributes to the decarbonization of transport and mobility across Europe. More than 170 amazing employees in 10 different European branches form a motivated team driven by a company culture based on trust and enjoyment. As an employer, we care about your well-being, as well as long-term learning opportunities and professional development, to maintain the maker mentality that we value so much in our team.

1. Love

We LOVE infrastructure and are passionate about what we do. The entire team is intrinsically motivated to achieve our goal of creating a sustainable world by making charging available to everyone, everywhere.

2. Trust

We TRUST our colleagues. Each individual is an expert in what he or she does. Our company's success is the sum of all the valuable contributions of each individual. We cannot and do not want to miss a single team member. That is why we promote a working environment of trust and belonging in which team spirit is the greatest asset.

3. Do

We pursue a doer:in mentality in everything we do, because we want to move forward quickly and get things done. That's why our hierarchies are flat, decisions are made quickly and each individual is fully responsible and authorized to act in his/her area of expertise.