Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a HR Manager Switzerland to work in a truly global environment, managing and improving all aspects of operational Human Resources & Data Analysis. With a dual report to the Global Head of HR & European Regional HR Lead, the role provides long term development potential to strengthen our Human Resources capabilities and performance on a local and global level, alongside enhancing how we track, report, and understand key HR metrics across the business.

Business Overview

Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.

This role will be working from the Volcafe headquarter in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Key Accountabilities

Operational HR Management responsibilities:

• Managing the full employee lifecycle from onboarding, employee lifetime and offboarding.
• Acting as the trusted assistant to Head of HR alongside business partnering with senior management and wider global teams.
• Ensuring compliance with Swiss employment regulations (tax, social security, insurances & pension plans), as well as internal minimum control standards.
• Accurately processing payroll, ensuring compliance with local regulations and administering employee benefits.
• Acting as a Business Partner to key stakeholders based in Switzerland.

Data-Driven HR Management responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve data accuracy in the HR system, training users and following up with data owners.
• Contribute to workforce planning and forecasting as well as conducting engagement surveys and internal mobility.
• Build and maintain reporting of key HR metrics through Excel & Power BI dashboard for analysis related to topics including turnover, hiring, promotion & absenteeism.
• Track and analyze data from engagement surveys, exit interviews, and internal mobility.
• Miscellaneous external and internal administrational tasks.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelors Degree educated preferably in a field related to Human Resource Management.
• Strong knowledge of Swiss labor law and HR best practices, knowledge of German labor law would also be beneficial.
• 10 years of experience within a global dynamic environment, providing HR support to a variety of stakeholders (multilingual / multicultural).
• Strong Excel & Power BI experience to create professional data for analysis.
• Experience with HR systems (SuccessFactors, Workday etc) alongside payroll systems.
• Problem-solving and conflict resolution expertise
• Fluent written and spoken German and English
• Excellent communication & negotiation skills, ability to work independently and able to maintain high level of accuracy.
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to build trust across functions and levels.
• Solution-oriented and proactive, with a hands-on, results-driven mindset.
• Adaptable and positive under pressure, able to thrive in changing environments.
• Skilled in problem-solving and conflict resolution.
• Strong execution and follow-through; delivers initiatives with consistency and attention to detail.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.