Job Title: European HR Manager Location: Veszprém, Hungary Reports To: Global Vice President, Human Resources (Sarasota, Florida) Industry: Medical Simulation Employment Type: Full-Time About the Company: We are a global leader in medical simulation solutions, headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, with a mission to improve patient outcomes through innovative training technologies. With locations in the United States, Canada, Germany, Hungary, and a distributed workforce across the AMEA region, our organization is experiencing significant growth and impact worldwide. Position Summary: We are seeking an experienced and resourceful European HR Manager to join our global HR team. This role will provide comprehensive HR leadership and operational support for approximately 80 employees across our European operations, primarily in Germany and Hungary, and play a key role in supporting a decentralized organizational structure. The European HR Manager will ensure consistent application of HR practices, compliance with local labor laws, and alignment with global HR strategies. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on professional with experience managing payroll through ADP and Celergo, and be fluent in running payroll in both Germany and Hungary. Key Responsibilities: Serve as the primary HR contact for employees and managers in Germany, Hungary, and other locations across Europe and AMEA. Manage all aspects of the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, performance management, and offboarding. Administer and process payroll for Germany and Hungary using ADP and Celergo systems, ensuring accuracy and compliance with local tax and labor regulations. Collaborate closely with the Global VP of HR to implement HR initiatives aligned with global business strategy. Partner with local leadership to support workforce planning, organizational development, and employee engagement efforts. Ensure compliance with local employment laws, regulations, and company policies across all European operations. Maintain accurate employee records and HRIS data. Support global HR projects, such as compensation reviews, talent development programs, and training initiatives. Manage external vendor relationships, such as payroll providers, benefits brokers, and legal advisors as needed. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. HR certification is a plus (e.g., PHRi, SHRM-CP, CIPD). Minimum 5 years of progressive HR experience in an international and decentralized business environment. Proven experience running payroll in Germany and Hungary, with hands-on proficiency in ADP and Celergo. Strong knowledge of European labor laws and HR best practices. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills. Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. Working knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines, including compensation practices, organizational diagnosis, employee and union relations, diversity, performance management, and federal and state respective employment laws. Fluent in English; German and/or Hungarian language proficiency strongly preferred. Experience in a medical or life sciences environment is a plus. Work Environment and Travel: This is a hybrid position based out of our Veszprém, Hungary office. Occasional travel (up to 10%) may be required to support regional or global HR initiatives. Skills & Competencies Leadership: Strong ability to lead through influence, coaching, and mentorship. Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present to all areas of the organization. Analytical Abilities: Ability to analyze people data, identify trends and use data to drive programs and policies. Adaptability: Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-changing environment, and able to adapt strategies as needed to respond to the employment environment. Relationship Management: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to maintain confidentiality and relationships with the entire organization. About the Company Elevate Healthcare was recently added to the Madison Medical portfolio of companies in February of 2024 with the acquisition from CAE corporation. Elevate designs, manufactures, and services healthcare simulation products used to educate nurses, doctors and medical professionals on the proper techniques and procedures to have confidence and competence in the life saving moments that matter. Currently, society is facing a significant shortage of nurses and doctors needed to treat an aging world population. Medical errors represent the third largest cause of death in the United States. Elevate plays a critical part in reducing medical errors and expanding the workforce for healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes. Elevate serves all of the major nursing and medical programs at hospitals, universities, nursing schools, medical schools, medical associations and medical technology manufacturers worldwide. Madison Industries Holdings LLC is one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world. Driven by a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive, the company is uniquely designed to foster, empower, and build exceptional companies and teams that are essential to collective health and well- being. Founded 25 years ago by Larry Gies, Madison Industries has morphed from a "buy, build, sell" model prevalent among venture capital and private equity firms, into partnerships that mutually benefit customers, employees and the business owners who join it. Madison’s goal is to build something truly remarkable that will long outlast all of us. Through Madison’s strategy, the company has grown into an international manufacturing powerhouse. It has built market leaders in the filtration, medical, safety, healthcare simulation, industrial equipment, process improvement, instruments & controls, plastics, energy, and indoor air quality industries with combined enterprise value of nearly $20 billion. Its footprint spans across Europe, Asia and the Americas operating over 300 facilities in 40+ countries, with over 18,000 engaged employees. Madison/Elevate Culture Elevate is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive by inspiring positive outcomes in healthcare. We are committed to an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and a strong bias for action. The team at Elevate is committed to building something truly remarkable that long outlasts us while coaching others to reach their highest potential. Elevate is part of the Madison Medical platform which has built its reputation by fostering three key attributes: Trust, Bias for Action, Entrepreneurial. Elevate’s Values Trust – Honesty and transparency are essential to the way we do business. We work with and build management teams we believe in and don’t add arrogancy, complacency or bureaucracy to the mix. We also believe in the power of the team and how critical trust is in that relationship. We work as hard for the person on our left and the person on our right as we do for ourselves. Consequently, our teams operate at the highest level of engagement and are inspired by our mission and their leaders. Trust is: Open, honest, and transparent. Ethics and integrity are assumed, and anything less is not tolerated. We meet all our commitments. We are a team, and we can rely on each other. We are what we do, and we do what we say Trust isn’t: An environment in which we have no oversight, approvals or control. Trust is a cultural attribute, not a management method. A set of rules and policies. Trust is earned, not legislated. Bias for Action – Unless you continually work, evolve and innovate, you will learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has! Consequently, we lean forward and challenge the status quo. And if there is an opportunity for us to make the world safer, healthier or more productive, we move quickly. In fact, we close our acquisitions in less than 30 days, providing minimal disruption to the companies with which we partner. Bias for Action is: Bold and ambitious. We inject speed and velocity into our processes. We are not victims of things which we cannot control. We control outcomes through our own actions. We act with imperfect information; confident in our ability to adjust as necessary. We embrace change and see it as an opportunity to improve. Bias for Action isn’t: Reckless decision making for the sake of speed. Ready, shoot, aim. An excuse for making poor decisions. Entrepreneurial – Madison Industries is an operating company owned by the team that runs it. Madison has over 900 owner leaders in its ecosystem. The company is not publicly traded, so no quarterly earnings reports. It is not private equity, so no artificial 3-5 year timelines, which means you can build your company for the long term. Businesses are run locally by the entrepreneurial teams who have an 'owner's mindset' and are closest to the customer, product and the team best positioned to make decisions. Therefore, we partner and not acquire; consequently, the name stays on the door and the management team remains in place. This incredible ecosystem of companies will remain a part of the Madison family long after we are gone, ensuring that our companies can continue their missions. Entrepreneurial is: We are self-reliant. We are gritty and tenacious. We have passion and perseverance for our long-term goals We are all salespeople at heart – and in our defined roles. 100% of our team members have the responsibility to be salespeople and to focus on customers. We are optimistic and believe we will be successful. We are adaptable and not set in our ways. We learn, grow and find ways to reinvent ourselves as circumstances change. We are ambitious. We want to great things and have great impact on the world. An attitude and approach to thinking that actively seeks out change, rather than waiting to adapt to change. It’s a mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement. Creativity and unwillingness to accept that there is not a better way. Constantly questioning. Constantly striving for improvement. Healthy paranoia – that leads to continuous innovation, improvement, and the like. Anticipatory and proactive – we constantly strive to be ahead of the curve. Recognition that we live in an "and" world, not an "or" world – our business requires us to balance multiple priorities with ambiguity and risk. We embrace this paradox and create operating constructs that allow us to make good decisions in that reality. Entrepreneurial isn’t: A sense of entitlement. A free pass to do whatever you want because you are acting like an "owner". An operating construct that has no oversight, no central authority and no hierarchy. A product of the kinds of businesses or sizes of companies from which we came. Elevate is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor