THE ROLE
As Team Leader HR, you will take on the functional and disciplinary leadership of our HR team in Aachen and, together with us, shape the next stage of HR at ModuleWorks. Your focus will be on developing clear structures, scalable processes, and a modern HR organization – staying close to daily operations while acting as a strategic partner to management and executive leadership. You combine leadership with a hands-on mindset, trust with clarity, and HR excellence with a strong human attitude.
Location: Aachen
Hours: Full-time (40 hours/week)
Salary Range: €65,000 – €80,000 gross p.a. (based on relevant experience & qualifications)
Start: As soon as possible
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Leadership & Team: You take on the functional and disciplinary leadership, development, and empowerment of the HR team.
- HR Operations & Governance: You ensure smooth HR processes across the entire employee lifecycle, including compliance with labor law and regulatory standards.
- Data Quality: You ensure high-quality HR master data and are responsible for maintaining and further developing the HR intranet.
- Insights & Reporting: You create statistics, reports, and analyses on HR topics for internal and external stakeholders.
- Employee Experience & Process Optimization: You analyze existing HR processes and continuously improve them – making them simpler, more digital, more efficient, and more user-friendly.
- Business & Management Partnering: You act as a sparring partner to leaders and executive management on all HR-related matters. You prepare and make personnel-related decisions in line with company objectives and actively support organizational, change, and growth phases.
- Projects & Future Topics: You lead and manage international HR projects and drive the further development of digital HR systems, workflows, and smart automations. You also help shape key future topics such as leadership development, employer experience, and HR strategy.
- Tools & Technologies: You work with modern HR and collaboration tools including Personio, Microsoft 365, Jira, Confluence, and DocuSign.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Professional Foundation: Several years of experience in HR, ideally with international responsibility. Proven leadership experience defined by clarity, empathy, and integrity. Strong knowledge across all HR disciplines – from recruiting and people development to HR operations and offboarding – as well as very good knowledge of labor law and compliance-related topics. You work in a structured, pragmatic way and focus on what truly matters.
- Communication Skills: You communicate clearly, respectfully, and reliably – engaging with employees, leaders, and management at eye level.
- Hands-on Mindset: You take ownership, get things done, maintain oversight, and consistently bring topics to completion.
- Growth Mindset: You want to grow both professionally and personally and actively help shape HR in a sustainable and future-oriented way.
- Digital Mindset: You are comfortable in an IT-driven environment and enjoy working with tools, systems, and digital processes.
- Nice to Have: A relevant qualification or degree (e.g. HR management certification, coaching, etc.), experience with Personio, and interest in automation and AI use cases in everyday HR work.
- Language Skills: German and English at least at B2 level – predominantly German locally, with English used regularly in tools, documentation, and international collaboration.
WHAT YOU GET AT MODULEWORKS
No fluffy “feel-good” copy – just things that genuinely make your workday better (in the office and in your head).
- Flexibility: Trust-based working hours, flexible office hours, and a range of remote-work options.
- Great Workstations: Height-adjustable desks, at least two monitors, ergonomic gear plus fast, pragmatic IT support.
- Energy: Free drinks, free lunch in the canteen (Aachen site), ice cream in summer and yes – the fruit basket too.
- Well-Being: Yoga & back-care classes, free vaccinations, company run & internal movement challenges.
- Development Path: Annual feedback & development talks, workshops, seminars, coaching, external team supervision and free language courses
- Community: International teams (25+ nationalities), first-name culture, no dress code, annual team-building budgets, and events like hackathons, Summer Jams, holiday parties, and pizza & after-work evenings.
- Mobility: JobRad bike leasing, subsidized Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transit pass), good public transport links, on-site parking and bike racks.
READY TO MOVE FORWARD ON YOUR CAREER PATH? LET’S GO!
Send your application to careers@moduleworks.com.
Please include your CV (cover letter optional) and relevant certificates/references as PDFs. Helpful for us: earliest possible start date and salary expectations (so we can move quickly).
