About Us\n\nWe are a company driven by people with energy, passionate about meeting our customers' needs. Together, we ensure the reliable energy and water supply for the Rhineland region, thinking ahead to tomorrow and actively shaping the energy transition.\n\nAs an employer, we offer diverse and responsible tasks, performance-based compensation, and excellent social benefits. Our employees work in an attractive professional environment with individual development opportunities, a modern corporate culture, and flexible, hybrid work models with home office options.\n\n## Position\n\nWithin our Strategy and Competence department, we are filling the position of Expert Strategic Personnel Management (m/f/d) with a focus on Talent Management (limited until 30.09.2027) at our Cologne location, effective immediately.\n\n## Responsibilities\n\n- Develop, manage, and optimize strategic HR initiatives with a focus on talent and succession strategies.\n- Identify key functions and individuals, conduct structured risk analyses, and develop systematic succession planning.\n- Design and implement an end-to-end talent management process, including talent identification, assessment, potential analysis, development, and promotion.\n- Manage and control the overall process, select, and implement suitable tools for talent and succession management.\n- Collaborate closely with IT and HR Analytics to digitize processes.\n- As part of an expert team, analyze trends, market, and corporate needs, deriving innovative concepts, methods, and instruments for personnel work, implementing them in close coordination with HR Business Partners, the Talent Factory, and other internal/external interfaces.\n- Advise HR Business Partners, departments, and managers on strategic and conceptual issues.\n- Steer and monitor the effectiveness of measures, initiatives, and programs.\n- Foster innovation-oriented, agile, and cross-team collaboration with HR Business Partners, other HR functions, and the business.\n\n## Qualifications\n\n- Completed Master's degree with a focus on Human Resource Management, Industrial Psychology, or a comparable qualification.\n- Several years of relevant professional experience (2-6 years) in talent management, succession planning, or strategic HR management.\n- Strong knowledge of potential analysis methods, competency models, and succession processes, with experience in project management and process design, ideally in complex organizations.\n- IT affinity and knowledge of HR systems such as SAP HCM or SuccessFactors, as well as data analysis skills.\n- Analytical skills to conduct risk analyses and derive measures.\n- Communication and consulting skills for collaboration with managers and HR Business Partners, along with strategic thinking and the ability to develop and implement concepts.\n- Profound knowledge in the development and implementation of strategic HR concepts, methods, and instruments.\n- Active networking and exchange with internal and external stakeholders, acting practically and customer-orientedly.\n- Willingness for continuous development and thinking beyond previous focal points.\n- Ability to present complex contexts clearly and provide impetus for the further development of personnel work.\n- Ideally possess analytical-conceptual competence, strategic and entrepreneurial thinking, innovative strength, creativity, pragmatism, and consulting and implementation skills.\n- Excellent communication and teamwork skills complete your profile.\n\n## Benefits\n\n- Hybrid work model with home office options\n- Performance-based compensation\n- Excellent social benefits\n- Individual development opportunities\n- Modern corporate culture\n- Attractive professional environment\n\n## Contract Details\n\n- Limited until 30.09.2027\n- Location: Cologne\n- Start Date: Immediately
