Head of Talent Growth & Analytics (m/f/d)
Summary
Leads a new talent analytics and rewards function for a high-tech automation company, building workforce planning, compensation frameworks, and people analytics from scratch while scaling internationally.
We are looking for an experienced talent leader to elevate how we find, reward and understand our people.
In this newly created role, you will build and own the capability that tells us who we need, where to find them, what to pay them, and what the data says about how we’re growing — starting in Germany, with international relevance from day one.
You will report to the Director People & Talent.
In this newly created role, you will build and own the capability that tells us who we need, where to find them, what to pay them, and what the data says about how we’re growing — starting in Germany, with international relevance from day one.
You will report to the Director People & Talent.
Talent Acquisition
- Lead and develop an existing TA team of 4 + Team Lead
- Shift from reactive recruiting to strategic Talent Acquisition
- Build sustainable sourcing capability and talent pipelines
- Develop Employer Branding and Candidate Experience with real substance
- Define agency strategy and governance
- Build Recruitment Analytics & Reporting that inform business decisions
Compensation & Benefits
We have a solid job architecture and salary bands. As we grow, you will evolve this step by step into a global rewards structure.- Extend our existing job architecture and salary bands into new markets as we expand, keeping one coherent global framework
- Grow our compensation benchmarking capability as new geographies come online
- Own annual comp cycles and build out-of-cycle standards
- Lead pay equity audits and get the organization ready for Pay Transparency obligations
- Design a scalable global benefits strategy
People Analytics
- Define what People Analytics means for this company and build accordingly. We're currently hiring the first IC into the team as well.
- Establish Workforce Analytics — headcount, cost, productivity trends
- Develop predictive models over time: attrition risk, hiring forecasting
- Partner closely with HR Tech to build the data foundation
- Translate people data into executive-ready insights
- Support in Due Diligences and Audits
Workforce Planning
- Own Workforce Planning for Germany — headcount forecasting, capacity gaps, hiring priorities
- Work closely with business leaders and HR Business Partners to anticipate talent needs before they become urgent
- Feed planning insights back into TA prioritization, comp budgeting, and Analytics development
- 10+ years in Talent, Rewards, or People functions in scale-ups, preferably in tech
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders, board-fluent communication skills
- Proven experience building functions from scratch, and successfully leading them
- Depth in Talent or Comp & Ben, plus a solid understanding and genuine curiosity about the rest
- Strong sense of ownership
- Comfort with ambiguity and the discipline to create structure where little exists
- Business proficiency in English, German is a plus
- Own and shape this function from the beginning, and bring strategic value to the company
- Dynamic high-tech company combined with financial soundness and world class investors.
- Join an interdisciplinary, international team with 60+ different nationalities in a collaborative work environment.
- Challenging tasks and impactful projects alongside experts that enable professional and personal growth.
- Corporate Benefits Program that covers health, mobility and learning with 100 € net per month.
- Modern office facilites with a rooftop terrace overlooking Munich