Wellbeing and workplace partner

CitizenM; Leiden; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Lunch subsidy

Hybrid work

Discounts at Marriott hotels

Employee assistance program

Commuting covered

Team events

Job summary

Another Star is seeking a Wellbeing & Workplace Partner to drive employee wellbeing, safety, and absence management. You will partner with leaders to build initiatives that prevent absence and ensure health and safety compliance across Leiden.

You’ll coordinate sickness absence processes, advise managers, and continuously improve wellbeing strategies, working with HR and operational teams to deliver a healthy, safe, and productive workplace.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of employee wellbeing, occupational health, workplace health & safety, and absence management.
• Experience developing and implementing wellbeing or health & safety initiatives.
• Proactive, pragmatic, and able to translate ideas into practical actions.
• Empathetic and credible with sound judgement.

Responsibilities

• Lead wellbeing, safety, ergonomics, and occupational health initiatives.
• Coach managers on sickness management and absence prevention.
• Coordinate sickness absence processes with health providers and policies.
• Improve sickness absence and prevention strategy for early intervention.
• Collaborate with Operations and Risk Management to align practices.
• Ensure compliance with health & safety legislation and RI&E processes.
• Co-create policies including hybrid/remote working practices.
• Analyze wellbeing/absence data with HR Data Analyst to inform improvements.
• Translate feedback into practical wellbeing programs and awareness initiatives.
• Coordinate environmental data to support Dutch regulations and ESG goals.

Skills

Wellbeing

Occupational health

Workplace safety

Absence management

Wellbeing programs

Empathy

Trust building

Job description

The Wellbeing & Workplace Partner creates a healthy, safe, and inspiring workplace that enables employees to do their best work. Partnering with leaders and employees, the role leads Another Star's wellbeing, workplace, occupational health, and workplace safety practices by developing initiatives that support healthy ways of working, prevent absence, and ensure compliance with health and safety obligations. Through prevention, data-driven insights, and continuous improvement, the role helps create Another Star's one-of-a-kind workplace where employees feel supported, can perform at their best, and choose to stay and grow.

• Department: human resources.
• Employment type: Permanent; this is a full-time position; part-time arrangements may be considered.
• Reporting to: director talent excellence.
• Compensation: €4,013 - €5,000 / month.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading workplace wellbeing, safety, ergonomics, and occupational health initiatives that enable employees to do their best work.
• Advise and coach managers on sickness management, absence prevention, workplace accommodations, and recognising early signs of stress, burnout, or disengagement to support early intervention and employee wellbeing.
• Partner with the HR team to coordinate the sickness absence process, including occupational health providers, ensuring compliance with applicable legislation and internal policies, and supporting timely and sustainable return-to-work.
• Lead the continuous improvement of the sickness absence and prevention strategy and processes, driving a more proactive and effective approach to early intervention and employee wellbeing.
• Partner closely with relevant stakeholders and departments, including Operations, Risk Management, to proactively manage workplace health, safety, risk and employee wellbeing and ensure consistent implementation across Another Star.
• Ensure compliance with workplace health and safety legislation, including workplace risk assessments (RI&E), preventive measures, and the implementation and monitoring of required actions.
• Co-create and maintain workplace policies and ways of working, including hybrid and remote working practices, to support employee wellbeing, collaboration, and business needs.
• Partner with the HR Data Analyst to collect, analyse, and interpret wellbeing, absence, attendance, and workplace data across the hotels and Support Office, identify trends and risks, evaluate initiatives, and recommend practical improvements that strengthen employee wellbeing and organisational performance across Another Star.
• Translate employee feedback and organisational needs into practical wellbeing programmes, awareness initiatives that promote healthy working habits, and create a healthy and safe support office workplace experience.
• Coordinate the collection of office environmental data with the building owner and ESG team to support GRESB, BREEAM, and compliance with applicable Dutch environmental legislation.

Qualifications / skills

• Strong knowledge of employee wellbeing, occupational health, workplace health & safety, and absence management.
• Experience developing and implementing wellbeing, workplace, or health & safety initiatives.
• Pragmatic and action-oriented, taking initiative to identify opportunities and translate them into practical solutions and implementation plans.
• Builds trust through empathy, credibility, and sound judgement.

Location / hours

• Location: Leiden Support Office (The Netherlands).
• Hybrid working is supported, with an expectation of spending an average of 100 days per year in the office. This is a full-time position; part-time arrangements may be considered
• This is a full-time position; travel to locations are considered to be part of the role.

Please note that we are only able to consider applicants with the right to work in the Netherlands. We won't be able to sponsor Visas for this role.

What's in it for you?

• citizenM experience nights for you. Discount rates at Marriott hotels
• Personal and professional development opportunities and programs
• Latest tech devices and all the tools you need to be successful in your role
• Commuting travel costs covered (by car or public transport)
• Pension and cycle-to-work scheme
• Subsidized fresh daily lunches at our support office
• Flexible public holidays
• Employee assistance program
• Varied team days and social events (from food trucks and quizzes at the office to parties on boats)

About Another Star

Another Star is the company behind all citizenM hotels in Europe and the USA. Our purpose is simple – to make sure citizenM hotels have everything to run smoothly and keep the guests happy. Bedding, tech, room maintenance, crunchy croissants and more – Another Star takes care of it all.