Dutch HR Business Partner

at  Specsavers

Are you professionally strong and have a burning commitment to people and good leadership? Do you want to further develop leaders and build a good workplace? Then we would like you to apply for this position as HR Business Partner at Specsavers.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for someone who has the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in P&O or similar and at least 3 years of experience in an HR Business Partner role
• Good expertise in labour law, negotiation experience and broad experience of manager support and employee matters
• Used to independently run projects and different areas of responsibility
• Very good language skills both written and oral in Dutch and English
• Preferably experience from retail or manufacturing and distribution environment
• Awareness of working in a multi-site organization.

As a person, we believe that you are:

• Solution-oriented and service-minded, and good at creating and maintaining good relationships and good collaboration so that together we reach our goals
• Communicative, empathetic and a good listener, while knowing what questions to ask to challenge and create constructive dialogues and develop our partners and the organization
• Educational and comfortable with holding webinars, presentations and used to adapting your way of communicating based on the target group
• Responsible, driving and taking initiatives to develop and improve our processes and working methods
• Committed and structured, and can see what needs to be prioritized in a fast-paced everyday life.

Employees and their well-being are at the heart of Specsavers and therefore also our biggest focus area. As a HR Business Partner, you support the support office with various HR (P&O)-related areas, and you help our store owners (partners) to create a workplace where job satisfaction and employee development are part of everyday life. You will work closely with the P&O team at the support office in Maarssen and the regional managers for the stores, and these will be your main tasks:

• Provide HR support, advice and challenge to the wider management team
• Responsibility for different P&O areas based on the needs of the organization – for example onboarding, wellbeing, D&I, management support in recruitment processes, internal communication and insurances
• P&O-related administration
• Being the driver with absence management for both support office and stores
• Understand and contribute to the development of the People Strategy with the rest of the P&O team
• Support the Head of P&O to develop plans to drive through the people agenda and execute against the plan
• Act as a facilitator to enable individual, team and business development
• Support and proactively work with partners on P&O-related issues, such as employee and team development, rehabilitation, and labour law issues and negotiations
• Use the P&O strategy to scope project plans that are relevant to your business area.