Lead HR Manager, Central and Eastern Europe

Company:Marsh

Description:

Lead HR Manager, Central and Eastern Europe

We are seeking a talented individual to join Marsh as Lead HR Manager for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In this role, you will lead HR management support across the region, ensuring HR policies, practices, and programs are aligned with business and people strategies. You will partner closely with People Managers and Business Leaders to deliver the CEE people agenda, provide guidance on colleague matters, and help drive consistent, high-quality HR delivery across 15 countries.

A key part of this role is leading a team of six HR Business Partners across the region, providing direction, coaching, and support to enable strong execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The CEE Lead HR Manager reports directly to the Europe HR Integration and Delivery Leader to ensure global and regional consistency, and indirectly to the CEE  Marsh People Leader.

We will count on you to:

• Lead regional HR support across CEE, ensuring consistent and effective service delivery for People Managers across 15 countries, covering following areas of our Business: Marsh Risk, Marsh People and Investment, Marsh RE, and Corporate/Tech.
• Oversee the delivery of HR processes, initiatives, and core people programs across the full employee lifecycle, ensuring alignment with the CEE People Leader, and other regional and global People Leaders to support business needs and objectives.
• Provide advice, coaching, and support to People Managers across the region, helping them strengthen people leadership capability and improve the colleague experience throughout the employee lifecycle.
• Partner closely with HR Services and Centers of Excellence (COEs) to deliver regional and enterprise HR initiatives in line with business priorities.
• Ensure employee relations matters are managed effectively, in line with risk, compliance, and business requirements.
• Support the successful implementation of regional programs and solutions, including annual compensation, performance, and talent review processes.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of HR Business Partners, ensuring clear priorities, strong coordination, effective resource planning, and timely delivery of key projects and deadlines.
• Drive consistency and continuous improvement in HR delivery across countries, while adapting to local business needs where required.
• Act as a trusted HR partner to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and contributing to the overall people strategy for the region.

What you need to have:

• Minimum 15 years of professional experience in HR, with significant exposure to cross-country or regional HR leadership in a multi-country environment (minimum 5 years of international experience).
• Strong experience across the full employee lifecycle, ideally within a complex, matrixed, multinational organization.
• Proven leadership capability, including excellent communication skills, experience leading remote teams, and the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple countries.
• A track record of building and leading inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Strong ability to manage complex priorities, navigate ambiguity, and deliver with discipline and accountability.
• Experience working effectively in a distributed HR model.
• Previous experience in multinational companies and/or highly complex matrix organizations.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

What makes you stand out:

• Experience driving organizational effectiveness, transformation, or change at pace.
• Familiarity with HR systems such as Workday or similar platforms, and enthusiasm for learning new capabilities, including artificial intelligence tools.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of the insurance environment
• Any additional good spoken and written CEE language

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and make an impact on colleagues, clients, and communities.
• Our scale enables us to offer a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards that support your well-being.

The Lead HR Manager for Central and Eastern Europe can be based in any Central and Eastern Europe country where Marsh has an office. The role is covered by our hybrid working policy, with 3 days per week in the office.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.