HR Business Partner (m/f/d)

MB Energy, founded in 1947 and headquartered in Hamburg, is an independent and integrated energy company with operations in Europe, the United States, and Singapore. The company is active in the import, storage, distribution, and marketing of petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), chemicals, and biofuels. With decades of industry experience and an innovative approach, MB Energy plays an active role in the global energy landscape, supporting its customers in the transition to lower-emission energy sources by developing and providing forward-looking alternatives.

Let’s shape the future of the energy industry together!

For our company headquarters in Hamburgʼs HafenCity , we are looking for you to start as soon as possible as

HR Business Partner (m/f/d)

Here’s what you can look forward to:

In this role , you are crucial in shaping how our business performs through its people. You work side by side with senior leaders in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment and help them make better decisions on organization, talent, and culture. You translate complex business challenges into pragmatic people solutions, strengthen leadership quality, and ensure that growth, transformation, and performance go hand in hand with our values and legal standards across our international setup. Your work has visible impact: you influence key strategic decisions, help build future-ready teams, and contribute directly to MB Energyʼs long-term success in an evolving energy market.

• Partner with Senior Leadership: You act as a strategic sparring partner for senior leaders (including SLT and ExCom members), challenging and supporting them on all people-related topics.
• Advise and Enable Managers: You provide managers at all levels with advice, guidance, analysis, and options for decision-making on personnel plans, people strategies, and all non-standard people topics (including M&A and post-merger integration).
• Shape People and Organization Strategy: You advise on organizational design, culture and engagement, diversity and inclusion, talent and succession, reward and performance management, and capability and workforce planning, working closely with our People Centers of Excellence (CoEs).
• Drive Development and Capability Building: You partner with managers to identify critical capability needs and define the right development initiatives in cooperation with the CoEs.
• Steer Transformation and Employee Relations: You support and challenge managers in transformation and restructuring processes, proactively mitigate (legal) risks, and resolve employee relations issues in line with legal, compliance, and works council requirements as well as our Code of Conduct.
• Connect Business and Global People Agenda: You act as the interface between the business and the People CoEs, recruit strategic key positions together with Talent Acquisition, and contribute to global People projects to further develop and implement the MB Energy People strategy.

• Education: A university degree in HR, business, psychology, law, or a related field.
• Professional Background: Extensive experience as an HR Business Partner (m/f/d) or in a comparable strategic HR role in a fast-paced, commercial environment, ideally within energy, commodities, or financial / trading businesses.
• International Experience: Track record working in international organizations and cross-border setups.
• HR Expertise: In-depth knowledge of core HR disciplines such as organizational design, talent and succession management, performance and reward, learning and development, and workforce planning.
• Labor Law and Employee Relations: Solid knowledge of German employment law and hands-on experience in handling employee relations topics.
• With these characteristics, you fit perfectly with us:
• Strategic and Hands-on: You move confidently between strategic discussions and operational follow-through, enjoying both conceptual work and pragmatic implementation.
• Business-Minded: You understand commercial and trading drivers, work with data and KPIs, and use insights to challenge and support leaders in their decisions.
• Communicative and Influential: You communicate clearly and to the point, adapt your message to different stakeholders, build trust quickly, and are able to influence and coach stakeholders at all levels – including senior leadership.
• Integrity and Responsibility: You act with integrity, take responsibility for sensitive topics, and maintain a clear stance in critical situations.
• Even if you do not fulfill all of the above require­ments, we encourage you to apply if you believe your expe­rience will add value to our team.