Key skills
Collaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Serve as the primary HR advisor to business and site leaders in Belgium and the Netherlands, providing coaching and pragmatic guidance
- Translate global HR strategy into local execution plans and country people priorities
- Lead employee relations topics end-to-end, including investigations, performance management, absenteeism, and disciplinary processes
- Build and maintain effective social dialogue, including engagement with Works Councils and employee representative bodies in Belgium and the Netherlands
- Ensure compliance with Belgian and Dutch labor law and applicable collective agreements, partnering as needed to manage risk and governance
- Own key parts of the HR year calendar, including performance, talent, and compensation cycles
- Support managers on job profiles, grading, compensation, and benefits decisions within IFF frameworks
- Partner with People Services Shared Services and HR Centers of Excellence (CoEs) on onboarding, mobility, and exits, ensuring a consistent employee experience
- Lead or contribute to local and regional HR projects, change initiatives, audits, and manager training/information sessions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Employment Law, or a related field
- Senior HR Business Partner experience in a multinational environment
- Strong expertise in Belgian labor law; solid working knowledge of Dutch labor law
- Demonstrated experience working with Works Councils and employee representative bodies
- Ability to operate independently with country-level HR accountability, prioritizing effectively across two countries and multiple sites
- Proven capability to handle sensitive employee relations matters with sound judgment and confidentiality
- Fluent in Dutch and English (written and spoken)
Benefits
- Hybrid working combined with multi-site exposure (Olen and Zaandam)
- Opportunity to translate global HR strategy into meaningful local impact for leaders and employees
- Collaboration with HR CoEs and shared services in a modern HR operating model
- A role combining strategic advisory work with hands-on delivery where it matters most
- The chance to contribute to innovations that elevate everyday products through our Food Ingredients business