HR Advisor

Are you based in Heerhugowaard?

Do you have operational HR experience, and can work in an agile and entrepreneurial manner?

Do you have experience working in a global consumer brand?

MacGregor Black is currently partnering with a Retail Business, on the search for an HR Advisor. This is a permanent role based in Heerhugowaard.

As the HR Advisor, you will work as part of a wider EMEA HR team with HRBPS in Europe and centres of excellence based in the US.

Key Responsibilities:

• First line HR support to colleagues based in The Netherlands, answering queries or escalating to HR team members if necessary.
• Responsible for administration surrounding new starters and leavers – including inputting roles into approval system, issuing contracts, updating pension and benefits providers, processing joiner and leaver information. Partnering with relevant departments such as finance/IT.
• Ensuring EMEA information in internal database (Workday) is kept up to date, completing requests for promotions/data changes to be approved and running reports from this database to provide to colleagues where required.
• Lead the induction/on-boarding of all new starters, working with HR Business Partners on induction process.
• Benefits administration and contributing to comparisons with competitors to ensure we remain an employer of choice.
• Responsible for the absenteeism registration and the process regarding ‘Wet Verbetering Poortwachter’
• Recruiting new colleagues, together with the hiring manager; write and post vacancies, coordinate the recruitment & selection process, maintain contacts with recruitment agencies.
• Support on HR communications to the Warehouse employees, including maintaining the notice board and internal display screens.
• Ensure up-to-date versions of relevant forms, policies and useful information are available through the intranet.
• Partnering with US based Centres of Excellence to create process improvement and collaboration – Payroll, HR Service Centre and Total Rewards.
• Collate monthly payroll amendments and queries and pass to the Payroll team.
• Coach managers/employees as appropriate.
• Work with HR Business Partners/HR Director on HR projects and employee relations cases as appropriate.
• Embrace company Vision, Mission & Values and be an ambassador for them within the business
• Any other duties as reasonably requested

What are we looking for?

• At least 1-2 years’ experience in a similar position
• Intermediate Excel and other Microsoft Office suite skills
• Fluent in spoken and written English and Dutch
• Attention to detail with experience in working on highly accurate reports
• Customer service orientated
• Similar environment experience would be an advantage
• Ability to prioritize and work in a fast-paced environment & effectively manage time
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Other European languages would be beneficial
• Ability to deal with sensitive information in a confidential manner

Salary up to €45k + benefits.

Please contact Alice Redmond today for more information.