With over 9.000 employees, Center Parcs runs 29 holiday parks in France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. We embrace the same mission to our guests: Inspire all to truly connect with nature and each other while caring sharing and enjoying. Our parks can be found in all kinds of different nature reserves, where we set the new standards in family holidays.

Thanks to our massive upgrading plan we gave our parks a new boost. Premium and atypical cottages, upgraded Aqua Mundo, harmless experiences such as authentic activities and strong collaboration with local actors - everything contributes to memorable experiences. In Germany we run six beautiful parks and employ almost 1.200 Happy Family Makers. For us Happy Family Makers is not just a buzz word, but our cultural DNA. All together we continuously improve our product and the service we deliver and strengthen our skills in hospitality.  We are convinced: engaged happy colleagues lead to engaged happy guests.

To support our vision we are looking for a high-performing, solution-driven Country HR Manager for Center Parcs Germany. The ideal candidate will bring creative and organizational solutions to enhance our culture and business.  

Mission
In a positive ‘can do’ attitude and determination, you define, propose and manage concrete action plans to be deployed within the framework of the defined HR strategy in Germany. Your future headcount is composed of 1.100 park employees as well as 70 support functions including Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Legal for which you are in charge of:
Further development and adaptation of the European HR strategy in Germany

Core HR:staffing costs, hourly wage policy and follow-up, remuneration and bonusses
Working conditions: Employee incentives and engagement surveys, home office policy
Social relations: you are the main contact person of staff representatives for all matters having an impact on the German scope (Work councils, company agreements)
HR development: preparation and participation to people review, talent review, annual appraisals
Organizational Development: participation in company wide projects, such as D&I, organizational transformation and restructuring processes.

You play a key role in fulfilling our ambition to offer a 5* employee journey to our Happy Family Makers and creating 100% engaged Happy Family Makers. Therefore you coordinate HR actions and ensure consistency between the 6 parks and the Cologne office. You actively collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence on the relevant subjects of their responsibilities: Talent Acquisition, Training, Talent management, Employer Branding & Internal communication.

In order to support you in your missions, you directly manage a small team: an HR Advisor and a Coordinator Payroll Services. You have a dotted line to the 6 HR Managers in our villages, our Recruiter and our L&D Manager of Germany.

About you

You are an established HR leader with a track record of leading an HR function in Germany and working on a strategic and operational level. Ideally a back ground in the service industry (e.g. hospitality, leisure, catering) or related industries (retail, entertainment). You are an authentic leader and bring excellent influencing and communication skills, and the ability to build support and coordination, across a large organization. Trusted advisor for senior management, sparring partner for our CHRO. Experience with Works Councils and thorough knowledge of German labor law is a must. Your leadership style, strong ownership and “out of the box” attitude are key assets in your position. You are definitely result oriented, capable of leading change and enjoying working on many different HR topics.  You are ahead of high customer expectations and able to turn them into pragmatic action plans.