HR Business Partner - Restructuring/Layoffs

Project overview

Service Description:

Objective

The subject of the mandate is the independent provision of project-related HR consulting and support services in connection with a defined scope of employment law sensitive personnel measures within the German business unit.

The scope of services includes the structured analysis and preparation of facts, the creation of decision-relevant documentation, the coordination of defined project-related interfaces, and the support of agreed sub-projects until the handover of the defined work results.

Services are provided independently in terms of content and organization. The contractor decides independently on methodology, approach, and organization of service provision, as far as project-related coordination requirements do not conflict.

The mandate expressly does not include the assumption of HR line functions, permanent operational support in day-to-day business, representation of the employer in decision-making functions, legal advice, or legal activities.

Integration into the employer's operational organization is not planned.

Project Scope

The subject of the mandate is the processing of a pre-defined and documented set of employment law relevant personnel measures.

Before the project begins, the scope, project goals, priorities, milestones, expected work results, and the facts to be processed will be coordinated and documented between the client and the contractor.

Services are provided exclusively within the defined project scope. An expansion of the scope or the assumption of additional services requires a separate written agreement.

The mandate is not intended to cover personnel capacity bottlenecks or general support for ongoing HR operations.

The project is considered complete upon handover of the agreed work results, final documentation, and overview of open measures.

Services

Work Result

For each commissioned case:

Demarcation

Personnel resource management and binding task allocation to employees remain exclusively with the client.

The actual commissioning, prioritization, and control of internal resources, as well as the decision on the type, scope, and timing of internal activities, are solely the responsibility of the client.

The contractor does not assume any professional or disciplinary leadership of employees.

The contractor acts exclusively in a consulting and support capacity.

Employer decisions, legally relevant declarations, binding commitments, negotiations, severance offers, and other legal transactions are made exclusively by authorized representatives of the client.

Permanent operational support for individual employees or managers is not part of the mandate.

The contractor does not act as a representative of the HR department or as a decision-maker of the company towards employees of the client.

The following are not part of the service:

The contractor has no authority to issue instructions to the client's employees at any time.

Approvals, personnel decisions, payment orders, authorization grants, releases, and other employer actions remain exclusively with the client.

The contractor is not integrated into organizational line structures and does not participate in general standard processes, line meetings, or disciplinary control tasks of the client.

Services are provided exclusively on the basis of the agreed project goals and work results.

• Factual Analysis and Documentation Preparation
• Analysis and structuring of provided documents
• Conducting coordinated information interviews with designated contact persons
• Creation of comprehensible factual representations
• Creation of chronological case summaries
• Documentation of open questions, discrepancies, and clarification needs
• Consolidation of relevant information for further processing
• Structured case file
• Chronology of significant events
• Source overview
• Documentation of open points
• Overview of required follow-up actions
• Project Planning and Control of HR Interfaces
• Creation of case-related process and action plans
• Identification of relevant interfaces
• Coordination of information and escalation paths
• Consideration of given employment law framework conditions
• Derivation of required support from involved company functions
• Documented project and action plan
• Overview of required approvals
• Stakeholder and interface overview
• Status and risk assessment
• Preparation and Support of Defined Personnel Interviews
• Creation of interview preparations and organizational process concepts
• Creation of briefing documents for managers
• Preparation of coordinated communication measures
• Moderated support of expressly agreed-upon interviews
• Documentation of agreed results and follow-up actions
• Interview guides
• Briefing documents
• Documentation of appointments
• Follow-up and action lists
• Factual Support in Employment Law Proceedings
• Compilation of relevant facts and documentation
• Coordination of agreed information deliveries
• Updating of defined case and documentation statuses
• Preparation of factual data and information for external consultants
• Creation of status reports and escalation overviews
• Documented fact and information packages
• Status reports
• Decision templates
• Overview of open points
• Legal advice
• Litigation representation
• Legal activities
• Legal negotiation management
• Legal assessment of facts
• Deadline control within legal proceedings
• Implementation Support and Project Completion
• Creation of case-related implementation checklists
• Consolidation of status reports from involved stakeholders
• Documentation of implementation statuses
• Identification and escalation of deviations
• Creation of a final and handover documentation
• Complete final dossier
• Documented implementation overview
• Overview of open measures
• Recommendations for further internal processing

Requirements

Additional Information:

Project No.: 1084165

Job Type: Location: Start: 10/26/2026 Duration: 6 months

• Several years of experience at Senior HR Business Partner, Employee Relations, or comparable level in Germany
• Demonstrable experience with sensitive personnel measures, restructuring, and complex management cases
• Sound employment law background and ability to recognize legal clarification needs and hand them over to the mandated law firm
• Experience with external employment law consulting and HR-side factual preparation for contentious proceedings
• Ability to independently plan clearly defined project services and deliver with comprehensible results
• Very good documentation quality, confidentiality, and security in handling sensitive personnel data
• Confident, clear, and empathetic communication skills; no pressure for immediate signing and no unapproved commitments
• Very good German and English skills and experience with international interfaces
• Willingness to consistently adhere to competence boundaries and to address unrealistic or out-of-scope requirements early on

Project details

• Start: 26.10.2026
• Duration: 6 Monate
• Location: DE
• Languages: German