Interim HR Business Partner for Operations (6 month-assignment)

Job Description

This is a full-time, six-month fixed-term assignment. We are also open to individual consultants or contractors via third party.

Nutreco is a leading global animal nutrition company offering solutions that go beyond nutrition. We support our customers in producing more feed in a sustainable way to meet the needs of a growing population.

In 2021, Nutreco established the Nutreco Exploration (NutEx) group, which develops novel and proprietary ultra-specialty ingredients and enables the development of plant-based innovative functional feeds. Within this phytotechnology program, Nutreco founded the Competence Center for Medicinal Plant Solutions (Nutreco Garden of the Future – NuGaFu).

Why join us
Own your contribution at Nutreco, an SHV company. In this interim position, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring structure, compliance, and operational excellence in a fastmoving, innovative environment. You will help shape the future of Nutreco’s Garden of the Future by putting solid HR foundations in place, enabling the team to focus on innovation, science and impact.

What you’ll do
In this six-month interim assignment, you will build on the existing HR fundamentals to further enable NuGaFu to grow effectively and compliantly. Your responsibilities will include:

• Serve as the temporary first point of contact for employees and managers in Arbon, supporting them with Employee and Manager Self-Service and ensuring HR operational excellence.

• Ensure compliance with Swiss labor law and all local regulatory requirements.

• Implement and maintain primary HR processes, including:

• Onboarding and offboarding

• Absence and illness management

• Region-specific rules and extraordinary local regulations

• Other core HR processes as defined by organizational standards

• Lead the implementation of HRIS Workday, ensuring all primary HR processes are correctly configured and fully functional.

• Own the knowledge transfer to the HR Service Center and relevant stakeholders, ensuring long-term sustainability.

• Maintain accurate HR documentation, such as our existing Employee Handbook, and reporting to ensure structure, clarity, and continuity.

Who we’re looking for
We’re seeking a hands-on HR professional who is structured, accountable, and ready to take ownership from day one. You bring:

• Proven HR operations experience in Switzerland, including strong knowledge of Swiss labor law.

• Familiarity with local HR processes and compliance requirements in the Arbon (Thurgau) region.

• Hands-on experience with HR systems, ideally Workday, including configuration or implementation experience.

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently in a fastmoving environment.

• You have completed further training as an HR specialist and already have several years of experience in a comparable position as an HR manager.

• Excellent communication skills in German and English.

What you’ll receive

• A dynamic and interesting project within a global organization to establish a strong local HR blueprint.

• Free garage parking, free coffee, tea, soft drinks, and fruit

• Discounts in the company cafeteria

• State-of-the-art infrastructure and technology

• Bright workspaces

• Flexible working hours

• Excellent social benefits

This is a six-month full-time or part-time assignment, either under a temporary employment contract or via a consultant arrangement (individual or via third party).

How and why to find out more
This temporary role offers the opportunity to leave behind a structured, sustainable HR foundation in a cutting edge innovation environment. If you’re ready to Own your expertise, your structure, and your impact, we’d love to hear from you.