People (HR) Operations Manager Germany (all genders)

You as part of tonies:

We are seeking a People Operations Manager to join our People Operations team in Germany. In this role, you will play a key part in the People Operations function, managing day-to-day HR activities and ensuring the smooth execution of processes across a range of People-related tasks. This is a hands-on position where you'll directly support employees with HR-related matters, contributing to the overall efficiency and success of our team.

Your tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Contract Conductor: Manage all contractual processes, such as drafting employment contracts, overseeing onboarding and offboarding, handling contract changes, and ensuring proper documentation and record-keeping. You’ll keep everything organized and compliant!
• Employee Support Champion: Be the friendly first point of contact for our Tonies team members with operational questions and requests. You’ll provide timely and accurate assistance to help them navigate their HR-related needs.
• Data Guardian: Maintain and update employee data in our HR Information System (Personio) and our Org Charts. You’ll help ensure data accuracy and integrity while supporting the development of automated workflows to make processes smoother.
• Benefits Maestro: Collaborate with our Payroll Manager to oversee employee benefits.
• External Communicator: Ensure timely and accurate communication with external partners, like social security agencies and health insurance providers, to keep us compliant and informed.
• Apprenticeship Ally: Help coordinate our apprenticeship program. This includes supporting recruitment, onboarding, and training, and being the go-to person for apprentices and everyone involved.
• Process Innovator: Identify opportunities to optimize our internal processes and contribute to continuous improvement and automation.
• Culture Catalyst: Organize wellbeing initiatives and company events to foster a positive company culture. Be also the Culture Champion in our team by taking ownership of organizing social afternoons, Christmas get-togethers etc.

What we are looking for:

• You’ve got great knowledge as well as a couple of years of hands-on experience in all operational HR processes.
• Strong experience with Personio is essential, and if you have experience as a Personio administrator, including creating and modifying workflows within the platform, that would be ideal for us!
• You know your stuff when it comes to German labor laws
• Attention to detail? You thrive on it! You ensure everything is accurate and compliant.
• You love solving problems and can handle employee queries with practical solutions.
• You’re super organized and can juggle multiple tasks without breaking a sweat.
• You genuinely care about providing excellent support and enhancing the employee experience.
• Fluency in German and  strong English skills 
• And last, but certainly not least: You always handle personal data and information with confidentiality and integrity.

If you’re detail-oriented, enjoy a mix of working from our lovely Düsseldorf office and home, and want to be part of our truly amazing, humorous, passionate, dog- and shawarma-loving People team, we’d love to hear from you!

Why tonies?

• Global Teamwork: We collaborate across departmental and country borders on our vision to bring the Toniebox into every child's room in the world.
• Come as you are: This applies not only to the dress code but also to everything else. Because only where you truly feel comfortable can you give your best.
• Mobility: Choose the option that suits you best - a Deutschlandticket (public transport ticket) for unlimited mobility, a monthly contribution for an office parking space, a leasing bicycle, or a remote work subsidy.
• Enhanced Security: Benefit from subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.
• Rest & Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of paid annual leave as well as three additional days off such as Rosenmontag, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve. After one year of employment, you can also use up to 10 "toniecation days" (unpaid leave days).
• Continuous Learning: Benefit from our internal and external training opportunities as well as an individual learning budget to continuously expand your knowledge.
• Language Learning & Relaxation: Improve your communication skills with the language learning app Babbel and find relaxation through our access to the meditation app Calm.
• Discounts: Benefit from attractive discounts on our entire range of tonies products.

Good to know:

As part of our principles, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at tonies®. We actively celebrate our colleagues’ different abilities, ethnicities, faith and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

About us

tonies® is the world’s largest interactive audio platform for children with more than 7.3 million Tonieboxes and 90 million Tonies sold. The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach. Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes more than 1,100 Tonies figurines in several languages.