Head of HR Services and HR Digitalisation (m/f/d)

What You'll Accomplish With Us

• Provide technical and disciplinary leadership to the HR Services department

• Manage personnel administration, payroll, time management, and digital HR services

• Ensure legally compliant, economical, and service-oriented HR processes

• Strategically develop HR services and the HR system landscape

• Oversee digitalisation, SAP, and transformation projects

• Advise managers on HR service, process, and digitalisation topics

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and represent the department in projects and committees

What You Bring

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Business Law, or a comparable field with relevant practical experience in HR management

• Knowledge of employment, collective bargaining, tax, and social security law

• Understanding of core HR processes (across the employee lifecycle)

• Familiarity with modern HR systems (particularly SAP HCM) and HR process digitalisation and automation

• Leadership skills as well as strategic and conceptual abilities

• Strong skills in project management and control

• Expertise in delegation, prioritisation, and decision-making

• Self-reliance, decision-making ability, result-oriented action

Compensation

We offer remuneration according to pay group 13 as per the Collective Agreement for Public Utility Companies (TV-V). Depending on personal qualifications, a lower pay group may apply.

Reasons to Start Your Career with Us

• Innovative technologies for Berlin's water cycle

• Sustainable environmental protection through active research

• Meaningful tasks with responsibility and team spirit

• Diverse career perspectives and advancement opportunities (e.g., Female Leadership Programme, individual development plans, in-house training options)

• Balanced work-life balance: 39-hour week, 30 days holiday per year, up to 60% home office per quarter depending on activities, various work time models (e.g., sabbatical, flexitime, part-time, 10 additional holidays through salary conversion, etc.), occupational pension scheme (VBL), subsidised mobility schemes (VWL), subsidy for the Germany Ticket Job, corporate benefits offers, 39 weeks continued pay in case of illness, workplace health management (e.g., bike leasing), family friendliness, professional employee advisory services for all life situations

Application Information

• People with disabilities will be given preference if equally qualified.

• We are particularly interested in applications from women as we aim to promote equal opportunities and the professional advancement of women.

• Applications from people with a migration background are explicitly welcome.

• Applications with different qualifications will be examined on a case-by-case basis and may be recognised depending on prior knowledge and professional experience.

Your Application

Please apply with your complete profile (cover letter, CV, certificates, and possibly proof of disability) by 18.08.2026, quoting the job ID via our career page.

Interviews are expected to take place from week 38 onwards.