Who we are

On July 1, 2025, IPL Plastics merged with Schoeller Allibert to form IPL Schoeller (the ‘company’). Its operations are split across North America (11 manufacturing plants), The UK and Lommel (6 manufacturing plants) and Europe (9 manufacturing plants). The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. IPL Schoeller is a leading manufacturer of sustainable rigid packaging solutions across a range of end market segments including returnable transit packaging, consumer and industrial packaging, environmental containers and agricultural packaging. The company employs c.4,100 employees across North America (1,600 employees) and Europe (2,500 employees).

Job Overview

The HR Business Partner - Group Functions will act as the strategic HR partner to the global corporate functions of IPL Schoeller, supporting organisational effectiveness, capability development, transformation execution, and leadership effectiveness across a complex international business environment. The role will partner closely with senior functional leaders to ensure group functions are structured, resourced, and operating effectively to support business performance, transformation priorities, governance requirements, and scalable growth.

This is a commercially focused and transformation-oriented HRBP role requiring strong organisational capability, stakeholder management, and execution discipline. The successful candidate must be capable of operating credibly with senior functional leaders while balancing global consistency with practical local execution.

The role will support:

Functional organisation design and workforce planning
Capability and succession development
Performance and accountability improvement
Transformation and operating model evolution
Cost and productivity alignment
Leadership effectiveness
Talent management and succession planning
Change execution and organisational simplification

This role is particularly critical as the organisation continues to mature following merger integration, standardisation initiatives, and implementation of scalable global ways of working. The successful candidate must be comfortable operating in environments with ambiguity, pace, restructuring activity, and high-performance expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership

Act as trusted HR advisor to Group Functional leadership teams globally
Translate business and functional priorities into practical people plans

· Support leaders in balancing capability, cost, scalability, and performance

· Provide challenge and insight using workforce, organisational, and business data

Partner with leaders to improve organisational effectiveness and accountability

Organisation Design & Workforce Planning

· Support functional organisational design and restructuring activity where required

· Assess role clarity, duplication, spans and layers, and decision-making effectiveness

· Drive simplification and alignment of structures across regions and functions

· Support workforce planning aligned to business priorities and cost discipline

· Embed globally consistent organisation design principles and job architecture

Talent, Succession & Capability

· Identify critical capability and succession risks within Group Functions

· Support internal mobility and development pathways

· Build practical development plans aligned to business priorities

· Partner with functional leaders on talent reviews and succession planning

· Strengthen leadership pipelines across specialist and corporate functions

Reward, Governance & Compliance

· Partner with Reward and HR leadership on implementation of reward frameworks and pay governance

· Support EU Pay Transparency readiness activities within Group Functions

· Ensure people decisions align to governance, compliance, and risk management requirements

· Support consistency in grading, role design, and organisational structures globally

Data, Metrics & Insight

· Use workforce and organisational data to drive decision-making

· Support development of meaningful people metrics linked to business outcomes

· Monitor organisational trends relating to turnover, productivity, capability, and succession risk

Drive evidence-based HR decision-making rather than activity-based approaches

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum of five years’ experience in HR Business Partnering, organisational effectiveness, or transformation roles
Proven experience supporting corporate or specialist functions within complex organisations
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, multi-site, or international environments
Experience supporting transformation initiatives, restructuring, and performance improvement programmes
Exposure to private equity–backed, manufacturing, industrial, or matrixed environments is advantageous
Strong understanding of organisational design, workforce planning, and performance management
Proven ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders and leadership teams
Brings a constructive, challenge-oriented approach, providing thoughtful insight as well as support

If you have the above experience and are looking for a role where you can make a real difference, apply today to find out more!

Senior HR Business Partner (Director) - Group Functions

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