Talent & Operations Working Student
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Job description
Quantis posted this role. Below, we break down what it means for a working student in Berlin: your weekly hours, take-home pay and visa limits. You can also open ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt to tailor your CV, check your fit, draft a cover letter or prep for the interview.
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Description provided by Quantis
Quantis, a BCG company, is a leading sustainability consultancy helping organizations address complex environmental challenges. For two decades, our expert team has partnered with organizations across the globe to bring sustainability into strategy, decision making, and action. We guide companies from ambition to action by uniting the latest science with strategic insights, helping them navigate complexity, make progress on sustainability priorities and create lasting value.
United by a shared commitment to making meaningful progress, our 250+ professionals embody a unique, collaborative culture that we call the Quantis Spirit. We are innovative. We are impact-oriented. We are science-driven. We are Quantis.
Learn more about Quantis and our mission.
The Role
As our Talent (HR) and Operations Working Student, you'll collaborate with our local support team to ensure smooth Human Resource administration and some operational tasks.
As our Talent and Operations Working Student, here's a preview of the tasks you will be supporting:
Talent Operations
- Workday (HR Information System) update
- Monthly Leaves update, sharing with managers
- Overtime tracking and reporting
- Monitoring our feedback collection campaign for our consultants and our support functions
- Monthly team events coordination (e.g. for Project Managers or Consultants)
- Training session logistics
- 1st day preparations
- Checklist distribution & tracking
- Off-boarding checklists
- Coordinating interviews and panels and consolidating feedbacks
- Collecting documents
- Campus events coordination
- Office life & events support (Retreat, D&I initiatives, Sustainability @ Quantis initiatives)
- Adhoc Finance & Administration support
- Adhoc communications support
- Location: Berlin (Germany)
- Job type: Working student position (maximum 20 hours /week)
- Optimal start date: ASAP
- You're motivated to put your skills to work in an environment working towards building a sustainable future
- You're a team player that works quickly, independently, and on schedule with a keen eye for detail and accuracy.
- You're fluent in written and spoken German, with working proficiency in English.
- You have some knowledge or experience with German labour law, office management and/or human resources.
- You have good interpersonal skills, and you practice open and transparent communication; welcome effective dialogue and productive disagreement with minimal tension.
- Functional understanding of Microsoft Apps (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) with an ability to learn new technologies quickly
- You have good synthesis skills and a strategic mindset.
- You're organized and juggle multiple projects and deadlines well.
- You have a strong entrepreneurial spirit: you are always looking for new ideas and ways to push the envelope.
- You are studying in the final phase of your studies in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related fields
- Currently enrolled at University, with further enrollment planned for another 6 months minimum
To learn about the Quantis Spirit and what makes us exceptional, check out our Braver New World video.
Furthermore, working students at Quantis have access to the following benefits:
- Urban Sports Club M Membership or Deutschland-Ticket subscription
- Home-Office Budget
- Great office amenities at our brand new office
At Quantis, Unlocking Potential means empowering our employees to thrive, enabling them to drive our mission and manifesto forward—creating meaningful impact for people and the planet.
We aim to achieve this by nurturing a culture rooted in collective action, and shared purpose, where diversity is cherished, inclusion is lived, mental wellbeing is supported, and opportunities are open to all.
This extends to our clients, their clients, and their entire value chain as sustainable thinking and collective representation are integral components of our purpose to transform the way that businesses operate.
This is how we commit to our people, live our manifesto, and shape a sustainable future - together.
Working student essentials
What this HR working student role in Berlin means for you: the weekly-hours rules, the social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
Studying in Germany
