HR Business Partner

TOPdesk; Delft; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10 to Grow programme

Hybrid working environment

Open, informal culture

Excellent employment conditions

Paid parental leave

Job summary

TOPdesk is seeking an HR Business Partner who will act as a strategic sparring partner for department leadership, advising on workforce planning, talent, performance, employee relations and organizational change.

You’ll translate business and HR strategy into concrete initiatives, use data to drive decisions, and coach managers through complex people topics while collaborating with senior stakeholders in a hybrid Netherlands setting.

Qualifications

• Solid experience as an HR Business Partner or in a comparable advisory HR role.
• Evidence-based and structured: data becomes decision-relevant insight, plans have owners and milestones.
• Knowledge of performance and talent management and employee relations; apply frameworks with judgment, not just by the book.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders constructively and hold the line on agreed standards.
• Fluency in English; Dutch is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic sparring partner for department leadership, advising on workforce planning, talent, performance, employee relations and organizational change.
• Translate business and HR strategy into concrete initiatives; use data to drive decisions.
• Coach managers through complex people topics.
• Build trust quickly and maintain integrity when delivering sensitive messages.
• Influence senior stakeholders and make trade-offs explicit.

Skills

Strategic HR partnerships

Workforce planning

Talent management

Employee relations

Data-driven decision making

Coaching managers

Stakeholder management

Fluent in English

Dutch language skills

Job description

As an HR Business Partner, you’ll act as a strategic sparring partner for department leadership, advising on workforce planning, talent, performance, employee relations and organizational change. You’ll translate business and HR strategy into concrete initiatives, use data to drive decisions, and coach managers through complex people topics.

• You bring solid experience as an HR Business Partner or in a comparable advisory HR role.
• You combine a business mindset with genuine care for people; and you’re there for them when they need you.
• You know performance and talent management and employee relations inside out; and you apply frameworks with judgment, not just by the book.
• You’re evidence-based and structured: data becomes decision-relevant insight, plans have owners and milestones, and you check what actually changed.
• You build trust quickly and keep it. You handle sensitive matters with integrity and deliver unpopular messages when needed.
• You influence senior stakeholders constructively: you challenge assumptions, make trade-offs explicit, and hold the line on agreed standards.
• You’re fluent in English; (Dutch is a strong plus)

Who you are

• You bring solid experience as an HR Business Partner or in a comparable advisory HR role.
• You combine a business mindset with genuine care for people; and you’re there for them when they need you.
• You know performance and talent management and employee relations inside out; and you apply frameworks with judgment, not just by the book.
• You’re evidence-based and structured: data becomes decision-relevant insight, plans have owners and milestones, and you check what actually changed.
• You build trust quickly and keep it. You handle sensitive matters with integrity and deliver unpopular messages when needed.
• You influence senior stakeholders constructively: you challenge assumptions, make trade-offs explicit, and hold the line on agreed standards.
• You’re fluent in English; (Dutch is a strong plus)

If you recognize yourself in most of this and are willing to learn and grow in the direction described, we’d love to hear from you.

The team

You’ll join a compact team of three: our Global Head of HR Business Partnering, who also carries part of the operational workload, and two HR Business Partners. With you, we’ll be four, together covering all TOPdesk departments. You’ll report to the Global Head of HR Business Partnering, who is part of the VP HR leadership team, so your line to decision-makers is short.

What's in it for you?

A strong focus on personal development — including, in the Netherlands, our “10 to Grow” programme: 10% of your time and budget for your own growth.

A hybrid working environment built on freedom, trust, and responsibility.

An open, informal, and supportive culture, with collaboration across national borders.

Excellent employment conditions.

This is what you do it for

The nicest colleagues, a laptop, and a salary that grows with you. That is a no-brainer, of course. But there’s more. Much more. In the Employee Handbook, you’ll discover all of our employment conditions.

10 to Grow

Devote 10% of your working time and a budget equivalent to 10% of your gross annual salary to personal development.

Paid parental leave

Receive your full salary for 9 weeks + 50% of your salary for 17 weeks. Why? Because parenting is hard work.

Simply do it during work time. Did we mention helping people is part of our DNA?