HR Business Partner (m/f/d)

To support our next growth phase, we are looking for an HR Business Partner who will shape the people agenda hand-in-hand with the CEO and leadership team, ensuring that culture, performance and capability keep pace with ambition.

Your role – trusted partner, builder and enabler

As HR Business Partner, you will act as a strategic sparring partner to the CEO, while also being hands-on across the full employee lifecycle. You will help turn strategy into culture, growth into capability, and ambition into sustainable performance.

 Your key responsibilities include:

• Strategic HR partnership
  • Act as a close advisor to the CEO and leadership team on all people and organizational topics
  • Translate business strategy and growth plans into a forward-looking people agenda
• Culture & leadership
  • Shape and strengthen a high-performance, entrepreneurial and inclusive culture
  • Support leaders in building strong teams, role clarity and accountability
• Performance management
  • Design and embed pragmatic, value-adding performance management practices
  • Enable continuous feedback, development and outcome-oriented performance
• Talent, learning & skills
  • Drive talent development, succession thinking and skills evolution in a fast-changing market
  • Partner with leaders to identify critical capabilities for future growth
• HR operations & employee lifecycle
  • Own and orchestrate all HR topics across the entire employee journey – from onboarding to development, engagement and retention
  • Ensure compliant, efficient and employee-centric HR processes in close collaboration with Group HR
• Change & growth
  • Support organizational scaling, new roles, structures and ways of working
  • Be a change agent who balances speed, quality and sustainability

 Your profile – entrepreneurial HR with business acumen

You are energized by growth, complexity and responsibility, and you enjoy working close to the business.

You bring:

• Several years of experience as an HR Business Partner or senior HR generalist, ideally in financial services, reinsurance, consulting or other high-performance environments
• Strong business understanding and the ability to engage confidently with senior leaders
• Experience across culture, performance management, talent development and HR operations
• A hands-on, pragmatic mindset with the ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution
• High credibility, emotional intelligence and the courage to challenge constructively
• Fluency in English; German is an advantage

Why UNIQA Re?

• A unique opportunity to shape HR in a growing reinsurance business with a start-up spirit
• Direct impact and close collaboration with the CEO and leadership team
• An innovative, fast-paced environment with short decision paths
• The backing, professionalism and long-term perspective of a strong international group
• A workplace in Zurich, at the heart of the global reinsurance market

Ready to build the future of UNIQA Re – through people?

We look forward to meeting HR leaders who want to make a real difference.