Senior HR Business Partner
Germany | Austria | Poland
Location – Berlin, Germany

(Please submit you CV in English)

About Staycity Group

At Staycity Group, we bring together two leading aparthotel brands — Staycity Aparthotels and Wilde Aparthotels — united by a shared commitment to modern, flexible hospitality. Across our properties and support teams, our goal is simple: to deliver exceptional experiences for our guests and create an environment where our people can do their best work.

Whether you’re joining our operations or head office teams, you’ll be part of a fast-growing European hospitality group built on our values of curiosity, drive, collaboration, kindness, and respect. We’re a diverse and inclusive team that encourages you to bring your unique self to work — because we believe great hospitality starts with people who feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Role:

We are seeking an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join our People Team, with strategic responsibility across Germany, Austria, and Poland. Reporting to the European Head of People (based in Dublin, Ireland), this role will partner closely with senior operational leaders to shape and deliver the people strategy across multiple countries, legal frameworks, and cultures.

This is a high impact, senior role suited to someone who thrives in complexity and ambiguity — bringing strong judgement, commercial acumen, and a coaching mindset. You will be trusted to influence leadership teams, challenge thinking, anticipate risk, and ensure our people practices enable sustainable growth across the region.

Benefits:

We want you and your loved ones to thrive, we’ll support your health, wellness, learning and development and if you decide it’s time to start or grow a family rest assured we celebrate that too: 

• Annual Bonus; - based on your contribution and impact

• Discounted rates for overnight stays for you, your family and friends 

• Refer and earn scheme - earn up to £/€550 

• Education Support to help you foster new skills

• Volunteer days: 2 paid volunteer days per year 

• • Support for you and your family when you need it with our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

We would love you to have...

• 7–10+ years’ experience as a Senior HR Business Partner operating in complex, multisite and/or multi-country environments.

• In-depth working knowledge of employment law and HR practices in Germany, Austria, and Poland.

• Proven ability to operate as a credible partner to senior leaders, influencing outcomes and challenging decisions with confidence and empathy.

• Strong experience navigating ambiguity, change, and organisational growth, ideally within hospitality, retail, or other service led sectors.

• Highly developed coaching capability and sound judgement in sensitive and complex people matters.

• Confident using data, insight, and commercial understanding to shape strategy and decision-making.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related discipline

• High energy, resilient, and comfortable working at pace across multiple priorities and geographies.

• Fluency in English, German and Polish

What you can do for us...

• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders across Germany, Austria, and Poland, shaping leadership effectiveness, organisational capability, culture, and engagement.

• Lead the people agenda for the three regions, aligning workforce strategy with business priorities across multiple countries and operating models.

• Coach General Managers and leadership teams to build high performing, engaged, and values led teams

• Partner on complex employee relations matters, providing clear, confident guidance while balancing legal compliance and Staycity Group values.

• Ensure all HR guides, contracts, and processes are compliant with local employment legislation and reflect best practice across the three regions.

• Anticipate people related risk and proactively address issues related to performance, capability, succession, and organisational design.

• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and Learning & Development to ensure regional hiring, onboarding, and development strategies meet current and future needs.

• Play an active role in People initiatives, including DEI, engagement, change management, and government or regulatory requirements.

• Use people data and insight to influence senior decision making, challenge the status quo, and drive continuous improvement across the region.

• Act as a role model and mentor within the wider People Team, elevating capability and consistency of people partnering.

Why Staycity Group?

With hyper growth comes ambiguity, we are all facing new problems that need to be overcome quickly, if you are someone who thrives with high pace and ambiguity you’ll love working here. We also love having our minds changed, with data and making data led decisions, if you have at least 7-10 years’ experience as a Senior HR Business Partner and or Senior HR Manager role and think it’s the right environment we’d love to hear from you.  

Start your Staycity Group journey — apply now! (Please submit you CV in English)