🍇 About grape:
Our entrepreneurial spirit drives us in what we do and what we are passionate about. Our mission is to become the premier health partner in the insurance business. Recognising the need for innovation in the traditional employee insurance model we are set to revolutionize the employee insurance industry. We help companies support people before and after they get sick and to make more of their time. Our insurance solutions reduce monotonous and manual work for employees, doctors, HR & payroll managers. As we strive to lead a technology-driven transformation, we put employees first.
At grape we pride ourselves on our people and our culture. We continue to grow fast and that’s where you come in. Our team is dynamic, diverse and full of creative ideas. Want to join? We can’t wait to get to know you!
🚀 Your role:
As we continue to grow, we’re seeking our first Senior People Partner to lead and manage people operations in Switzerland while also driving strategic people initiatives. In this expanded role, you will act as a trusted advisor to the Head of People, team leads, and employees, bridging operational efficiency with strategic people projects. This position is pivotal in fostering an engaged, high-performing workforce while continuously improving processes, policies, and programs.
Beyond ensuring that core people operations run seamlessly, you will lead cross-functional people initiatives, develop innovative people strategies, and act as a key partner in shaping our organizational culture and employee experience.
🔍 What you’ll do:- People Operations (50%):
- Oversee and optimize the entire employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, and all transitional phases, ensuring exceptional employee experiences
- Serve as the primary point of contact for complex employee inquiries related to benefits, leave, payroll, policies, and employment law compliance
- Maintain and improve personnel records, data accuracy, and system functionality within our HRIS (Hibob)
- Oversee payroll input and collaborate with our Finance Manager to ensure accuracy and timeliness in payroll cycles
- Ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations while proactively updating policies to align with organizational growth and market changes
- Develop and manage people analytics, delivering actionable insights to guide data-driven decision-making and shape organizational strategies
- People Business Partnering & People Projects (50%):
- Lead and execute strategic people projects, monitoring and improving total rewards programs (incl. designing innovative benefits programs), performance & growth management, implementing engagement surveys, and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
- Partner with the Head of People to design and implement strategic people initiatives, such as talent development programs, succession planning, and change management
- Collaborate with leadership and managers to address complex employment-related challenges
- Continously identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency across all HR functions, driving forward-thinking solutions and best practices
- Serve as a culture ambassador, contributing to initiatives that strengthen team collaboration and organizational alignment.
🛠️ What you’ll need:- 6+ years of experience as an HR Generalist across a full range of HR topics in a fast-paced tech or startup environment
- Comprehensive understanding of people operations, compensation structures, employee relations and HR compliance requirements
- Strong affinity for people, process simplification, and problem-solving, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in an organized manner
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail
- Detail - oriented with a commitment to maintaining accurate systems and records, coupled with the ability to handle project ambiguity and complexity while always building for scale
- Proactive mindset with a drive for continuous improvement and the ability to adapt to the evolving needs of a growing organization
- Data-driven mindset with experience in people analytics, translating metrics into actionable insights
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships across all organizational levels
- Excellent communication skills with fluency in both German and English (verbal and written)
🤝 What we offer in return:- Empowering workplace: Join a passionate team and an empowering workplace where you are given the ownership, tools, and support to make decisions and take initiative. Together we grow and build innovative solutions.
- Hybrid setup: Enjoy the flexibility of our hybrid work setup, with the freedom to work remotely or from our offices in Basel and Zurich. On Thursdays, our team day, we meet together in our Zurich office.
- Salary: A competitive compensation package with the opportunity to obtain phantom stocks options.
- Results-Oriented Work Environment: In a full time (5 days per week/42 hours), we encourage you to focus on objectives and delivering high-quality work rather than sticking to a fixed schedule.
- Learn & Grow: We support you in improving your skills, acquiring new knowledge and advancing your career. We also allocate a CHF 1'500.- budget annually.
- Wellbeing: Work-life balance is important to us and we foster a supportive work environment. You will have access to 12 mental health sessions per year.
- Leave: Enjoy 5 weeks of annual leave (25 days) of paid vacation and 9 public holidays.
- Travel Support: We will provide you with a SBB half-fare card.
- Relocation Support: We aim to make the transition as smooth as possible. If you are relocating from the EU we will cover your relocation costs and visa.
- Social gatherings: Together we have fun at our monthly team events and bi-annual team retreats.
🏁 How we hire:
When making a hiring decision, we look for a match in four main areas: skills and technical abilities, mindset & values and we assess them in the following three steps.
Step 1 - Your Application: Our talent acquisition team and hiring manager will review your application and respond within one week.
Step 2 - Your Motivation: We'll invite you to a 30-minute motivational chat with our talent acquisition team so we can get to know each other better.
Step 3 - Your Role & Culture Fit: You’ll have two more interviews to confirm your fit for the selected role and our culture. In case of highly technical roles we’ll additionally assess the specific skills you’ll need for your role.
A variety of experiences, perspectives, and voices make us the company we are and we’d love to hear about yours!
