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As a Senior Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP), you’ll be a key driver in optimising HR practices within the agency, managing both local team operations and supporting global initiatives across our group. Reporting to the People Director NL, you'll engage in both strategic and operational HR efforts, ensuring smooth HR management while contributing to impactful global projects. We are looking for someone with a passion for strategic HR and a keen interest in fostering a dynamic, inclusive work environment. This is very much a hands-on role requiring you to work independently as an advisor to the business. Ensuring the HR outputs are aligned with business objectives and delivered seamlessly is imperative.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and support HR operations for 200 employees, overseeing employee relations, performance management, and development plans with a strong understanding of local Netherlands employment law and relevant processes.
- Provide advisory support on HR policy and social strategy, guiding talent and organisational planning.
- Supervise onboarding and offboarding processes to ensure a positive employee experience from day one.
- Drive skills development initiatives, including performance reviews, training plans, and talent growth support for local teams.
- Promote health, safety, and well-being by managing occupational medicine, coordinating well-being programs, and overseeing preventive measures.
- Coordinate local HR projects design and oversee our compensation and benefits programs. You will guide the team in maintaining the benefits we already have as well as recommending incentives for employees to make us more competitive in the industry.
The essentials:
- 5-7+ years as an HR Business Partner, ideally within a tech or global organisation in the Netherlands
- Comprehensive knowledge of Dutch employment law, compliance, and social relations
- Experience supporting HR across multi-country teams, with the ability to adapt global strategies locally
- Proven track record in HR project management, including experience with organisational transformation
Not a must, but a plus:
- Familiarity with WORKDAY
- International HR experience
- Data driven
At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.