Are you an experienced leader with a passion for fostering growth and inspiring teams? Then join our innovative Global Transaction Center in Berlin as a dynamic and results-oriented Team Lead (m/f/d) who will be responsible for overseeing a talented group of professionals and guiding them towards achieving exceptional outcomes in HR administration and payroll processing.

Don't miss this unlimited, full-time leadership opportunity with KWS Group - a global leader in the agricultural sector.

Your responsibilities: Inspire, lead, and empower a team of around 20 employees to achieve their full potential in a trustful and collaborative environment. You will be supported by one team coordinator for Payroll and one for HR Admin. Team responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensuring correct and timely payroll for our German companies (employees and retirees).
• Administration of the company pension scheme and other benefits
• Administrative processing of all personnel measures from hiring to leaving/retirement, such as the creation of contracts and contract amendments, implementation of salary adjustments and bonus payments, creation of certificates and reference letters
• Handling inquiries from employees and managers in our ticket system
• Ensuring deliveries for annual and quarterly financial statements (e.g. HR accruals)
• Ensuring internal controls and coordinating internal and external audits

Embrace Innovation: Encourage a culture of continuous improvement and explore new technologies and best practices to enhance HR and payroll operations.

Acting as a role model: Conduct disciplinary management activities and ensure proper staffing to maintain a high-performing team.

Quality Improvement: Steer via appropriate KPIs and derive measures to improve quality and increase efficiency. You will be leading the team by setting transparent and ambitious goals and providing the framework and conditions for a collaborative mindset and efficient end-to-end service delivery.

Clear and timely communication: It is essential for both internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, fostering cross-functional collaboration and an efficient information flow between Global Functions, Global Transaction Center (GTC), and Business Units will be part of your responsibilities.

Your profile:

• You are an experienced HR professional with strong leadership capabilities and sound knowledge in HR Admin & Payroll. Experience in a shared service environment would be beneficial. Confident appearance, good communication and conflict resolution skills complete your profile.
• As a leader, you see your responsibility in inspiring your team and creating an environment where everyone has opportunities to learn and grow. Developing a high-performing team means for you to enable people to realize their full potential while staying motivated and healthy.
• You're not satisfied with the status quo, and you are constantly looking for improvements. You prefer a pragmatic but very structured approach to prioritize, initiate and steer improvement activities.
• You enjoy interacting with different stakeholders to find the best solutions. You are comfortable making clear decisions and always communicate openly, honestly, and respectfully. You are not afraid of conflict and deal openly with mistakes, seeing in them an opportunity to make problems transparent and find better solutions.
• You are very good in German and English (written and spoken).

Why should you apply?

• We are an international team with diverse and cross-functional experiences shared by open-minded people.
• Best of both worlds: KWS Berlin combines the security of a big, stable company with the passion of a start-up.
• As a family-backed company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight, and independence; this culture is lived in practice creating an open and friendly working atmosphere from day one.
• Our location in the heart of Berlin Schöneberg is very modern, directly opposite of a train station and with secure car & bike parking facilities.
• We offer a hybrid working model (onsite / home office).
• We offer an attractive remuneration package incl. company pension plan and other benefits.
• Following our motto "Make yourself grow", we support employees' professional and personal development with individual training measures.

We look forward to receiving your online application via our application system SuccessFactors! Please use the "Apply" function in the online advertisement.