HR Manager and Site HR Manager
Date: Aug 4, 2026
Location: Rostock-Warnemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Company: Teleflex
Expected Travel: Up to 10%
Requisition ID: 14207
About Teleflex Incorporated
As a global provider of medical technologies, Teleflex is driven by our purpose to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. Through our vision to become the most trusted partner in healthcare, we offer a diverse portfolio with solutions in the therapy areas of anesthesia, emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and radiology, surgical, vascular access, and urology. We believe that the potential of great people, purpose-driven innovation, and world-class products can shape the future direction of healthcare.
Teleflex is the home of Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, LMA™, Pilling™, QuikClot™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ – trusted brands united by a common sense of purpose.
At Teleflex, we are empowering the future of healthcare. For more information, please visit teleflex.com.
Position Summary
The HR Manager is responsible for all HR activities at the Warnemünde production site and creates the conditions for a high-performing, committed, and future-oriented organization. In this key role, he/she acts as a strategic HR business partner for the plant management and the site's executives and works closely with the global HR functions and the international matrix organization.
Key tasks include managing operational and strategic human resources, shaping constructive employee and working relationships, talent management, workforce planning, and ensuring compliance with all relevant labor law and regulatory requirements.
The HR Manager fosters a positive corporate culture, supports the implementation of global HR initiatives, and promotes a trusting partnership with employee representatives. Furthermore, they make a significant contribution to the successful implementation of change processes and support the achievement of corporate goals through modern, sustainable, and value-creating HR solutions.
Principal Responsibilities
Strategic HR partnership
- Trusted sparring partner of the plant management in all personnel, management and labor law issues
- Development and implementation of location-specific HR strategies and workforce plans in line with global corporate goals.
- Support for organizational development, productivity and transformation initiatives
- Analysis of relevant HR key performance indicators and derivation of data-based recommendations for action regarding personnel and workforce trends.
Employee and labor relations
- Responsibility for employee affairs, investigations, disciplinary proceedings, and conflict and complaint management
- Promoting an appreciative corporate culture and constructive, solution-oriented collaboration
Talent Acquisition & Personnel Planning
- Overall responsibility for filling open positions at the location
- Development and implementation of forward-looking workforce planning to support production requirements and growth targets
- Close collaboration with managers in identifying staffing needs and continuously improving recruitment processes.
- Strengthening employer attractiveness and building sustainable talent pipelines, including training and junior staff programs
Performance Management & Talententwicklung
- Control and continuous development of performance management processes in collaboration with the global Centres of Expertise
- Support for succession planning and leadership development
- Promoting a culture of continuous learning, development, and performance awareness
Compensation & Benefits
- Support in implementing compensation and benefit programs in accordance with company policies and operational regulations.
- Ensuring fair, market-based and competitive remuneration structures
- Participation in salary negotiations, job evaluations and benefit processes.
- Monitoring of personnel costs and personnel-related budgets
HR Operations & Compliance
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant labor law, social security law, data protection law and occupational safety law requirements as well as internal guidelines.
- Responsibility for employment contract issues, the implementation of guidelines, and legally compliant HR documentation.
- Support and continuous development of HR systems as well as ensuring high data quality
- Responsibility for successful audits, compliance checks and regulatory requirements
Payroll
- Ensuring timely, correct and legally compliant payroll processing
- Ensuring accurate data collection and a proper release and documentation process in accordance with SOX requirements.
Health, Safety & Wellbeing
- Close collaboration with the Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) departments to promote a sustainable safety culture
- Management of absences and support for reintegration measures
Leadership & Team Development
- Professional and disciplinary leadership and further development of the HR team at the location
- Defining clear goals and individual development measures for team members
- Promoting a culture of responsibility, collaboration and continuous improvement
Education / Experience Requirements
- Successfully completed studies with a focus on human resources management, business administration or a comparable qualification
- At least 7 to 10 years of professional experience in human resources with progressively increasing responsibility.
- At least 3 to 5 years of management experience in an HR management function within a production, industrial, automotive, engineering or supply chain environment.
- Proven experience as a strategic HR business partner for executives and management teams
- Experience in internationally operating companies and matrix organizations
- Sound knowledge of modern HR processes and best practices throughout the entire employee life cycle.
- Strong leadership, communication and consulting skills, as well as the ability to build resilient and trusting relationships at all hierarchical levels.
Specialized Skills / Other Requirements
Language skills
- German at native speaker level, both spoken and written.
- English at a negotiation-level fluency, both spoken and written.
Professional skills
- Sound knowledge of German labor law, works constitution law and co-determination
- Extensive experience in employee and labor relations as well as constructive cooperation with employee representatives.
- Good knowledge in the areas of payroll, compensation & benefits as well as relevant compliance requirements.
- Understanding of workforce planning in a production environment as well as productivity and labor management key performance indicators
- Experience with HR information systems, ideally SAP SuccessFactors
- Confident handling of HR metrics, analyses and data-driven decision-making processes
Leadership skills
- Strong strategic thinking skills and a high level of business acumen
- Ability to effectively link HR strategies with corporate and location goals.
- High persuasiveness and influence, as well as pronounced competence in stakeholder management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills at all hierarchical levels
- Proven experience in conflict resolution, mediation and negotiation
- Experience in supporting transformation and change processes
- High integrity, trustworthiness and professionalism in handling sensitive information
- Ability to successfully lead and develop high-performing, committed, and future-oriented teams.
Teleflex is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to age, gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion and/or membership of the traveller community.
If you require accommodation and support to apply for a position, please contact us at talent.emea@teleflex.com
Diversity fosters innovative thinking and entrepreneurship and that’s what we are about at Teleflex. We trust and value our people and their diversity and we make it fun to work here. We are on a journey to ensure our workplaces mirror the patients we serve and the communities we operate in. Our approach is simple, we embrace everyone and want them to feel they belong here. We are building a culture where all employees can bring their best and unique selves to work. If that appeals to you, we would love to hear from you. Come join a company where diversity is sought out and inclusivity is how we progress.
At Teleflex, we follow a comprehensive hiring process. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from agency recruiters or 3rd party firms. We do not make unsolicited job offers. We do not ask for money or require equipment purchase up-front.
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