People and Culture Senior Business Partner (f/m/d), approx. 12 months limited contract

Bring It

You bring extensive experience in People & Culture Business Partner roles. International and matrixed environments are your natural ground. A Master's degree or equivalent in HR, Business, or a related field underpins your background. Strategic workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, and organisational development define your depth. You combine strong consulting, negotiation, and analytical skills with trusted senior relationship building. Your cultural awareness and integrity help you navigate complex, sensitive stakeholder environments with maturity. You have proven experience leading complex change and transformation initiatives with significant business impact. Excellent communication and presentation skills in English and ideally German allow you to engage effectively at all levels. You work effectively with AI, applying structured checks to outputs and experimenting to improve outcomes. You integrate AI agents into daily workflows to automate complex, multi-step tasks with accountability.

Build It

You will act as strategic partner and trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives at SAP. You provide strategic HR consulting to accelerate SAP's Next Level Transformation. Your approach draws on data-driven insights and operational excellence. You drive the People Agenda and workforce strategies across the business area, supporting change management and influencing scalable People & Culture (P&C) solutions. You translate business-specific needs into P&C requirements and drive cultural change as a culture shaper within the organisation. You advise senior leaders on talent and skill gaps. You co-create strategies across talent management, leadership development, and succession management. You coach leaders to strengthen their leadership effectiveness and build capability across SAP. You lead people workstreams in transformational business initiatives with strong project management discipline. You represent business needs in the design and rollout of global P&C programmes, frameworks, and solutions. Using AI-assisted approaches, you automate workflows and generate governed, scalable solutions across the team.

Belong

You will join a global P&C Business Partnering team at SAP, dedicated to shaping the people agenda through transformation and growth. The team operates at the intersection of business strategy and people, driving impact through inclusive collaboration. Diverse experiences and perspectives are valued here. Your insight contributes to real, meaningful outcomes for SAP and its customers. Your work guides decisions on talent pipelines, succession, and organisational effectiveness at the highest level. If shaping people strategy at enterprise scale motivates you, this is where you belong.

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