HR PEOPLE PARTNER OFFICER

ABOUT UNILEVER

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home Care, Personal Care and Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. It has 161,000 employees. Over half (58%) of the company’s footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Knorr, Dove, Domestos, Hellmann's, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry's, Marmite, Magnum, Lynx and Axe.  

In the Netherlands, we have several sites. As HR People Partner you will be part of a geography-wide team, but your focus will be on employee groups for a specific location (for this vacancy, our operating company at Hofplein). 
 

MAIN JOB PURPOSE

This role as People Partner Officer will support the People Partner team and lead several activities related to employee experience at Unilever in the Netherlands.

Are you driven to make employee experiences at Unilever as simple and delightful as it can be? Do you want to support people so they can be their best? As HR People Partner Officer you are at the heart of the end-to-end delivery of all people related activities, processes, and experiences. You are hands-on and bring strong operational excellence and support the People Partner team on HR activities such as (international) moves, on-boarding, reward, special leave, illness, wellbeing, change management and (team) performance. 

You love connecting with people, have good expertise and knowledge of (HR) policies, labor law and processes and are therefore able to provide (proactive) advice on all day-to-day HR activities. You are always drive to deliver a great experience and can leverage a network of HR experts behind the scenes.
 

JOB SUMMARY

 You deliver a great employee and line manager experience everyday by:

• Acting as main support for People Partner team in NL for all HR activities. And support linemanagers and employees. You make their life’s simpler and more effective.
• Acting as single point of contact for employee challenges, developing close relationship with employees and line managers, and providing them with clear guidance. 
• Finding the right approach for specific questions using our policies, available expertise, knowledge of laws and systems, social skills as well as your common sense.
• Ensuring that employee policies, practices, and programs are consistently applied across the business.
• Owning and leveraging (personnel) technologies to deliver a great employee experience
• Managing a variety of employee transactions in HR systems end – to -end (e.g. Workday) and leveraging a network of experts behind the scenes to provide the right solution first time.
• Being involved in organizing and implementing workshops, HR (organizational) changes, health, wellbeing & development activities for employees, enabling them to thrive.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

 This job is a great opportunity for you when you:

• Are a proactive, progressive HR generalist, with a solid experience in advising and coaching line managers and/or employees on HR related matters 
• Are not afraid to push back when needed but driven to deliver an excellent end – to – end employee/line manager experience.
• Understand the bigger picture but have an eye for detail.
• Are pragmatic but thorough in doing your work and finding the best approach for every situation and spot opportunities for improvement.
• Have proficient and broad understanding of policies, labor law and able to navigate (complex) processes and systems
• Able to work independently whilst also enjoying collaborating with your colleagues.
• Love to work with (new) technology and are interested in HR trends and developments.
• Like to work in a dynamic, complex, international, and ever-changing environment 
• Love to be part of great team of HR professionals.
• Fluent in Dutch and English.