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As we push forward, the innovative, open spirit that fuels our 140-year-old start-up culture and rapid growth also drives our personal growth. So, as we shape a more resourceful, less wasteful world, we build our careers too.

The Role

Alfa Laval is currently on an HR journey where we see great potential with established in May 2023 a local HR Service Center (HR SSC) in Krakow delivery support to Employees in Poland, North and Central Eastern Europe Countries. The HR SSC mission is streamlining HR & Payroll processes, ensuring an efficient and effective HR operation with best-in-class Employee support, fully focused on self-service enablement and automation.

In the position of HR Partner, you will be responsible for a variety of HR related activities delivered to Employees in Netherlands and Belgium. You will be part of the local HR SSC Team located in Netherlands, and report to the Local HR Shared Service Center Manager in Krakow, Poland. You will be working closely with other local HR Partners, Payroll Partners, our Vendors and HR Business Partners.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely execution of activities related to the whole employment life cycle: Hiring & Onboarding administration, Time & Absence, Benefits, Pension and Separation process

• Accountable for full management of Employees’ documents preparation, processing (i.e. employment contracts, contract annexes, certificates) and Personal Files management

• Execute transactional Employee Lifecycle activities in Workday and Vendor’s Payroll System

• Resolve Employees HR queries, by providing direct support via HR case (ServiceNow ticketing system)

• Appropriately collect and register monthly mutations to assure data readiness for the payroll process executed by Payroll Partner

• Prepare various organizational/HR reports and process analysis

• Maintain local HR website, related knowledge materials and prepare/deliver regular communication to Employees

• Carry out audit and checks on data changes to ensure compliance between the HR systems

• Actively participate or manage the local and global HR initiatives/projects to continuously improve delivered HR processes, HR system and overall service provided to Employees.

Our Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and relevant experience required

• Minimum of 3 years of HR administration experience

• Familiarity with HR operational process knowledge and experience

• Very good spoken and written Dutch & English

• HR system knowledge i.e. Workday is a plus

• HR case management system knowledge i.e. ServiceNow is a plus

• Knowledge of employment/labor law in Netherlands is a plus

• Open and communicative team player, laser-focused on Employee experience and HR processes improvement.

What we Offer

• Work in a people-oriented team with dynamic and inspiring colleagues and leaders

• Attractive salary and benefits package (private medical care for you and your family, life insurance, lunch card, access to MyBenefit platform, Multisport etc.)

• Flexible working hours, you can start between 7:30 and 9:30 am

• For this role we offer a remote work option, or for people located in Krakow, we offer hybrid work with 3 times a week at our office on Przybyszewskiego 56, Kraków

• No formal dress-code

• Integration events

• Employee volunteering opportunities and interesting CSR projects

• Relocation support within Poland if needed.

We care about diversity, inclusion, and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this, we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application, you will be invited to play the assessment games.

We are looking forward to your application. Applications sent directly via email will be disregarded due to GDPR.

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