Are you passionate about shaping corporate culture, driving employee engagement, and leading strategic HR initiatives?

Join us, at Lidl Bulgaria and become a key contributor to our employee experience! With more than 140 stores and 2 logistics centres in the country, Lidl Bulgaria has been consolidating its leading position as a responsible investor, a loyal employer and a preferred shopping destination offering high quality at a good price for more than 15 years.

For our Head Office in Garitage Park, Sofia, we are looking to hire:

Culture and Engagement Expert (m/f)

What will you do?

Your mission will be to ensure our organizational culture thrives, actively engaging employees and driving strategic HR initiatives. As a core part of our team, you will:

• Facilitate the creation of concepts regarding employee retention and motivation.
• Drive organizational change initiatives, ensuring that employee engagement remains at the core of our cultural and business transformation. 
• Organize, conduct, and analyze employee surveys, including moderating focus groups if needed, and derive, track, and implement action areas and measures.
• Coordinate, communicate, and consult on all national topics and processes related to engagement and culture.
• Organize, plan, and execute employee events, national or regional initiatives (e.g. teambuilding and other events).
• Strategically orient, develop, and manage occupational health programs.
• Implement and support future concepts related to corporate values, leadership, and new ways of working (NWOW).
• Ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion are seamlessly embedded in the entire employee lifecycle, fostering a culture of belonging at every stage. 
• Implement concepts and measures in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility.
• Prepare evaluations, analyses, statistics, and concepts on key topics related to employee engagement.
• Support internal communication (e.g., creating intranet articles) in collaboration with Corporate Communications.

What do we expect from you?

We are looking for a highly committed professional with strong organizational skills who can quickly integrate into our team.

Core Requirements:

• Proven ability to organize and understand complex facts and interrelationships.
• Self-initiative, high responsibility, and excellent project management skills, willingness to learn, and flexibility in thinking and actions.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Proven attention to detail, especially when working with data and reporting.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and teamwork skills.
• Proficiency in Bulgarian (minimum fluent) is mandatory, and minimum good knowledge of English (B2) or German (B2) is required.

Valuable assets:

• Proven experience (5+ years) in Employee Engagement, Talent development, Organizational Culture, or HR Project Management in a corporate environment is a strong asset.
• Direct experience with building concepts, facilitating change initiatives, organizing corporate events, health management initiatives, or DE&B programs is highly valued.
• Ability to easily establish trusting relationships with colleagues and business partners.

What do we offer you?

• Work in an international company with career development opportunities.
• Onboarding training.
• Food vouchers worth up to 102,26 € per month based on hours worked.
• Additional health insurance.
• Multisport card at a preferential price.
• 1 additional day paid leave for your birthday.
• Additional day of paid vacation for every 5 years working at the company.
• “Refer a Friend” bonus of 515 € to 770 € gross.
• Gift and cash bonus for the birth of a child in the amount of 340 € gross.
• Gift set of school supplies for employees with children from 1st to 8th grade.
• Discount on annual subscription to online learning platform for employees with children from 1st to 12th grade.
• Christmas and Easter bonus.
• Assistance program for employees and their families - free psychological, financial and legal counseling.
• Workplace - Garitage Park, Sofia.

Apply online now!

• To be considered, please attach your resume to your application.
• We will contact shortlisted candidates directly, so please provide a current phone number.
• All applicants will receive a written response.

Lidl Bulgaria guarantees

• Honesty, punctuality and transparency in the employment relationship.
• Complete confidentiality in reviewing of applications.
• Full protection of your personal data in accordance with current EU regulations and Bulgarian legislation.

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