HR Operations Manager
$55,000–$70,000 year
HybridEindhoven, North Brabant, The Netherlands
Job Summary
Coordinate monthly payroll input with Finance and external advisors, process contract and role changes, and maintain GDPR-compliant personnel files in Exact Synergy. Draft employment contracts, manage the full employee lifecycle from pre-boarding to exit interviews, and support visa/IND, relocation, and sickness absence cases. Advise managers on employee relations and performance while delivering HR reports on headcount, absence, and turnover to Finance and leadership. Own cross-functional HR processes for change initiatives and maintain accurate documentation under Dutch employment law. Report to the General Manager with direct oversight of HR operations in an international automotive cybersecurity and AI environment.
Required Qualifications
- Several years as an HR Operations Manager, HR Advisor, HR Coordinator or senior HR Officer in the Netherlands
- Strong grasp of Dutch HR processes: employment documentation, payroll preparation, absence follow-up, employee lifecycle admin
- Experience with Sickness absence and reintegration cases conform 'Wet Verbetering Poortwachter'
- Experience collaborating on multidisciplinary processes and projects with Finance, IT, Quality, payroll providers and/or external advisors
- Good practical understanding of Dutch employment law and applicable regulations in HR
- Accurate, consistent, confident with Excel for checks and reporting
- Dutch: fluent — required for Dutch authority's communication and execution under Dutch employment law and applicable regulations in HR
- English: good business level — this is our company language for contracts and employee communication
- Living in the Netherlands, preferably within reasonable commuting distance of Eindhoven to come 3 days per week to the office
Desired Qualifications
- Earlier start
- Experience working in Exact Synergy, Nmbrs and/or Recruitee
- Experience with (corporate) recruitment
- Processing Visa/IND procedures and the 30% ruling applications as recognized sponsor
- Familiar with an international / tech / automotive / software / Brainport environment
- Driven by HR reporting, dashboards, Power BI and process improvement
- Skilled in utilizing AI tools from Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.
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