International HR leader with historic business leadership experience

Primary focus for current or most recent role: HR Business Partner

Remits where you can offer expert support: • 20 years of international HR experience and 5 years’ experience from general management positions hence, can offer a broad range of “out-side in” HR support, e.g. how to manage teams and employee engagement due to uncertainty or review of all office functions with ambition to increase effectiveness and control costs.

Unique expertise: Strong in-house consultant who can review how to respond to Covid-19, e.g. 1) Accelerate smart work such as remote working and replace in-person meetings with virtual ones, 2) Manage workforce flexibility by adapting the existing workforce to the current situation, adjusting hiring to temporarily adjusted demand etc., 3) Adopt new hygiene and health habits and 4) Set up new communication channels to communicate with clarity and empathy.

Markets with deep expertise: Europe (Scandinavia, England, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Monaco), Malaysia, the Philippines

Languages : English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

Workforce types directly supported: Experience supporting both office and production environment in Oil&Energy, Medical Devices, Consulting and Industry

Current home country: Netherlands

Home state / kanton / borough: The Hague / Amsterdam / Rotterdam

Team management: Has managed teams of up to 55 employees with approx 10 direct reports. No preference to work as a manager of teams vs being an individual contributor.

Strengths: Business driven and commercially focused. Strong in development and implementation of HR strategies, organization design, recruitment & onboarding, in building capabilities, in managing change and in improvement of engagement. Multi-country experience and expertise with family offices, restructuring, workers councils and unions. An impeccable moral compass, a high EQ and self-drive, pragmatic and straightforward.

Need to know: Charismatic leader with ability to build trust, drive change and create results.

Currently setup with secure home office and reliable internet?: Yes

Any conflict of time/interest clauses we need to be mindful of : No

For more details on this professional and how they might help with your business challenges, please make direct contact with us today and reference P002321