HR Business Partner (all genders)

adesso Schweiz AG

Zürich

Key information

Publication date:06 December 2025
Workload:100%
Contract type:Unlimited employment
Place of work:Zürich

Job summary

Join adesso, a top address in the IT world focused on optimizing business processes. We offer an empowering work environment with great benefits.

Tasks

Support employees and team leads with various HR topics.
Oversee the Employee Life Cycle from onboarding to offboarding.
Drive and implement our HR roadmap and optimize processes.

Skills

HR background with a focus on labor law and social security.
Excellent communication skills in German and English.
Proficiency in MS Office and ERP systems.

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We are one of the top addresses in the IT world and focus on optimizing our customers' core business processes. Through the smart use of tailored IT solutions, we support our customers in getting the best out of their business and current technologies. However, we achieve our success through one thing only: the people at adesso! They bring ideas, professional know-how, and technologies together. Together we program (your) future at adesso. To strengthen our decentralized HR team, we are looking for a committed HR Business Partner / Generalist 80 - 100% for our location in Zurich-Altstetten (and partially in St. Gallen) starting February 1, 2026, or by arrangement.

WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE

As a reliable sparring partner on employment and workplace well-being topics, you support employees and team leads with advice and assistance. You raise awareness of the entrepreneurial situation and help ensure that all employees can develop their full potential. As an HR Business Partner / Generalist, you are responsible for the Zurich location and support the other locations (mainly St. Gallen):

Support, advice, and assistance to our employees and team leads on various personnel matters (including global mobility)
Co-responsibility for the entire employee life cycle from onboarding to offboarding (including social insurance and payroll, personnel administration, excluding recruiting)
Active promotion & operational implementation of our HR roadmap, participation in HR projects, and optimization of existing processes
Ensuring know-how transfer & training of personnel processes and HR tools as well as culture and leadership topics

General tasks:

Shared responsibility and participation in corporate services (e.g., reception, switchboard, infrastructure/office management)
Ensuring compliance with processes and procedures, checking their legal conformity (especially in labor, social insurance, tax law, and international guidelines, nDSG), supporting risk identification and tracking, reporting
Participation in ISO/audit documentation as well as maintenance of our communication tools (e.g., Confluence), regulations, guidelines, and templates
Assistance in organizing and conducting personnel events

HOW YOU SUCCEED

#GrowTogether - that is our credo! Do you love the versatile activities around the employee life cycle as an HR all-rounder? Are you a passionate and empathetic HR personality eager to accompany our company on its further path of internationalization and growth? Are you energized as a proactive "DOER" with high-quality standards by a dynamic work environment, and do you want to drive changes rather than just manage processes? In addition to solid, long-standing HR expertise (including labor law, social insurance, payroll, and global mobility) and business understanding, communication skills, and personal responsibility, you bring the following competencies:

Commercial training with further education as an HR specialist with a federal diploma
Confident German, fluent English skills
Solid knowledge of MS Office. ERP knowledge of Abacus, experience with SAP SuccessFactors is an advantage

Note on workload: 80 – 100%; ideally 100% during maternity cover, then 80–100% by arrangement.

OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER - WHAT MAKES ADESSO SPECIAL

Our promise: You will feel comfortable with us! Collegial, communal, and on equal footing – we live exchange, team spirit, and respectful interaction. Diversity and different perspectives are valued just as much as you as a person. That and much more stand for our very special sense of togetherness. There is even a word for it: adessi.
Our culture and collaboration are characterized by mutual appreciation, recognition, and support. That connects us – also at the different locations and in the home office. Growing together and being opportunity providers is programmed in our DNA. We have been repeatedly voted one of the best employers in Switzerland – would you like to contribute positively as a new adessi and in your role as HR Business Partner / Generalist?

Contact

You will like it here! Apply now directly online including your salary expectations and earliest possible starting date.
adesso Schweiz AG // Nicole Johner // T +41 58 520 97 06 // career@adesso.ch