People Partner, Europe North & Central

Are you someone who has an expertise to partner with business to achieve their people goals and help build great work culture?

If you want to play a key role in enabling Hempel and our leaders deliver on this strategy, if trusted advisory comes natural to you and you know your way around your HR tool box, then this role might just be right next career move for you!

As People Partner within EMEA and SEA, you will become part of our dedicated P&C team. Your role will be based in Gdansk, Poland and you will report to the Head of People Partnering & People Operations, EMEA & SEA.

Do You Dream of Working in a Culture of Inclusion, Transparency, and Support?

Across the People Partnering organization we help attract, grow and retain remarkable employees. As a People Partner, you will be an advocate for our culture and core values. You will partner up with business leaders, helping them build and develop their organizations, making sure that all people decisions are sound, sustainable and data driven. You’ll also play a meaningful role in advancing a more diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce in Hempel, securing this through our hiring, promotion, retention practices.

Collaborating closely with Strategic Business Partners and COE functions across People & Culture, you will help execute on People Strategies, Yearly P&C processes as well as project and tasks throughout our joiner, mover and leaver processes, incl. playing a key role in implementation of Global P&C Programs within compensation, performance, and talent management. Mentoring people, resolving employee issues, managing P&C programs globally with a business and solution focus.

What will your main responsibilities include?

As a People Partner, you will engage with designated business areas in the locations and manage their HR agenda with the following main focus areas:

• Effectively partner up with business leaders, providing full range support on People and Culture lifecycle activities, incl. annual performance-, organizational- and compensation reviews
• Collaborate with Strategic Business Partners (who support Top Management) on implementation of Functional People Strategies
• Understand business priorities and identify how P&C can drive value creation in pursuit of Company goals
• Collaborate with Colleagues across the P&C organization from Regional People Partner teams throughout People Operations teams and Centre’s of Excellence teams on delivery of projects and tasks. For Poland close collaboration with Senior People Partner, who supports the entire Polish organisation and is placed in Buk
• Counselling and execution within the following area of expertise: Career, performance & talent management, review processes, coaching, data analysis, compensation and rewards, employee relations, conflict grievance and dispute resolution, learning and development, recognition programs and engagement surveys
• Act as talent broker and encourage internal career mobility

Are you a data driven people partner, who understands how to build trusted relationships and be a catalyst for change and value creation?

To succeed in the role as People Partner we imagine that you:

• Come from a similar position within a larger global organization, are used to working in a matrix set-up and have some experience from deployment of annual HR wheel activities to every day case resolution.
• You possess strong business acumen, are good at linking P&C priorities with business goals and are keen on driving value creation.

• You are good at building trusted relationships and are a natural “go-to person” because you get things done.
• You thrive at developing and improving P&C activities, linked to overall business purposes.
• You are well versed with local employee legislation mainly in Poland.
• You can identify challenges and play an advisory role in addressing them, while ensuring that implemented solutions make a real difference.
• Lastly, you hold a relevant academic degree and are fluent in English.

Sounds like a match?

To apply for this position, please submit your application letter with a CV in English via our recruitment system by clicking the link ‘Apply‘ on or before 25th May 2026.

Application due

2026-05-26

Seniority Level

Associate

Job Functions

Human Resources

Industry

Chemicals

At Hempel, you’re welcomed to a global community of +7000 colleagues around the world. A workplace built on shared trust, mutual respect and support for each other. 

We’re on a mission to double our impact. To succeed, we need bright minds and team players. Which is why, from day one, your input, ideas and initiative are not only welcomed, but expected. In return, you will enjoy great opportunities for development in a growing global company – and be part of the solution by contributing to our global impact. 

At Hempel, we are committed to everyone feeling safe, valued and treated equally, in an environment where each employee can bring their authentic selves to work.  We believe that inclusion is key to innovation and by bringing together the most diverse perspectives and talents,  we can achieve great things, together.