HR Business Partner

• Partner with leadership: you're the first point of contact for the managers in your department on workforce planning, talent, and day-to-day people decisions; challenging assumptions and shaping decisions based on business and people impact.
• Advise on the hard stuff: employee relations, performance, and engagement; analyzing cases, presenting options, and recommending balanced solutions.
• Turn strategy into action: translate business objectives and our global HR strategy into concrete initiatives with clear owners, milestones, and outcomes.
• Own the people strategy: develop the long-term people priorities for your department, including measurable outcomes and resource implications.
• Work evidence-based: analyze HR data and trends, flag risks early, and follow through until behavior actually changes; not just until the report is sent.
• Coach managers: on leadership and performance topics, through structured conversations and honest feedback.
• Drive change: support organizational change and design together with L&D, recruitment, and the Works Council; mapping people impact, handling complex and sensitive people decisions with care, and monitoring how change lands.
• Be there for people: managers may be your first customers, but you're just as much there for the colleagues who need HR the most; approachable, fair, and human.

• You bring solid experience as an HR Business Partner or in a comparable advisory HR role.
• You combine a business mindset with genuine care for people; and you're there for them when they need you.
• You know performance and talent management and employee relations inside out; and you apply frameworks with judgment, not just by the book.
• You're evidence-based and structured: data becomes decision-relevant insight, plans have owners and milestones, and you check what actually changed.
• You build trust quickly and keep it. You handle sensitive matters with integrity and deliver unpopular messages when needed.
• You influence senior stakeholders constructively: you challenge assumptions, make trade-offs explicit, and hold the line on agreed standards.
• You're fluent in English; (Dutch is a strong plus)

If you recognize yourself in most of this and are willing to learn and grow in the direction described, we'd love to hear from you.