HR Director Netherlands – Van Der Valk International (40 Hours Per Week)

HR DIRECTOR NETHERLANDS - VAN DER VALK INTERNATIONAL (40 hours per week)
Strong in the field, close to the hotels and businesses

We are looking for an HR Director Netherlands: an experienced HR professional who provides direction to the further development of HR within our Dutch hotels and businesses. You connect professional HR expertise with daily hotel practice and contribute to good employer ship, leadership, and organizational development.

You will do this within an entrepreneurial family business in which responsibility lies close to the hotels and in which important choices are made in consultation with management and the family. This requires someone who advises independently and with sound reasoning, can connect different interests, and at the same time keeps an eye on what works in practice.

In addition to your presence in our hotels in the Netherlands (and 1 location in Belgium), you will regularly work at our central HR location in Amersfoort, your base.

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WHAT EXACTLY WILL YOU BE DOING?
As HR Director Netherlands, you provide direction to the further development of HR for our Dutch hotels and businesses. Based on your expertise, you introduce proposals, advise on choices, and ensure that decisions taken are translated into clear frameworks and good execution. In doing so, you always seek the balance between collective frameworks and local entrepreneurship. Not everything has to be the same everywhere, but on topics such as good employer ship, employment conditions, laws and regulations, and important HR processes, clarity and consistency are needed.

You work closely with the HR directors of the other business units. On topics that you tackle together, you represent the needs of the Netherlands, coordinate proposals with each other, and work on solutions that are applicable within the different business units.

You report to the Business Unit and a member of the Board of Directors. In this environment, you know when you can act independently, when coordination is needed, and when decision-making lies at another level. Even when interests or views differ, you remain clear about your professional HR advice.

You provide (functional) leadership to the HR organization in the Netherlands, consisting of HR Business partners, HR Shared Services, and HR policy. HR Shared Services, including functional management, is led by a Team Leader. Payroll processing falls under Finance.

We are working towards more HR responsibility at the hotels and their managers. HR supports them in this through clear collective frameworks, expertise, and advice. You help to further shape this movement and ensure that HR and the hotels work well together in this.

And furthermore:

• You advise the Board of Directors and managers of the hotels on HR and organizational issues;

• You continue to build professional, consistent, and practically applicable HR policy and HR processes;

• From HR, you actively contribute to organizational development and change tasks and advise on the impact thereof on leadership, people, and organization;

• You translate HR figures and developments in the labor market into clear priorities and concrete actions;

• You monitor that we comply with laws and regulations and act carefully and consistently as an employer;

• You are responsible for the HR budget;

• Together with the other HR directors, you develop and coordinate proposals in the field of, among other things, employment conditions, labor relations, integrity, and trust policy;

• You provide direction to leadership and talent development, succession planning, and management development;

• You work on our positioning as an attractive employer and the further development of employer branding;

• You lead strategic HR projects, such as the further development of a job architecture;

• Together with HR Shared Services, you ensure a reliable, efficient, and customer-oriented HR administration for our hotels and businesses;

• You are responsible for the HR content of our employee app My Toucan.

WHY DOES THIS JOB SUIT YOU?
You are an experienced senior HR professional who combines substantive expertise with a sense for people, organization, and administrative relations. You advise clearly, dare to make different insights and interests discussable, and translate choices into workable solutions.

You feel at home in an entrepreneurial family business where formal responsibilities, local entrepreneurship, and family involvement converge. In that environment, you can connect different interests without losing your independent professional judgment.

Furthermore, you understand that influence does not only stem from a formal mandate. You build support, make responsibilities clear, and get people moving through substance, persuasiveness, and collaboration.

You are visible, approachable, and move easily between the Board of Directors, family, management, HR, and daily hotel practice. You are decisive and result-oriented, but also understand that sustainable change requires attention to relationships and to what is actually achievable within the organization.

WHY WE SHINE AT VAN DER VALK?
Working at Van der Valk International B.V. means: working in the most atmospheric environment, with the nicest colleagues and plenty of growth opportunities. We work hard, both in front of and behind the scenes, to ensure that guests experience a fantastic stay. And besides hard work, making fun together is also part of it! And that is why, in addition to a good salary, you can expect a beautiful package of secondary employment conditions from us!

Additionally, you can at least count on:

• A salary between € 8,000.00 and € 10,000.00 gross per month (based on full-time), depending on your experience;

• A bonus scheme of up to 20% of the gross annual salary, which is dependent on the company result and individual KPIs;

• Holiday allowance of 8%;

• An employment of 40 hours per week;

• An electric lease car;

• A laptop and phone;

• A good pension scheme;

• Access to our Loyalty App: this app offers you many exclusive employee benefits, both within our own group and with many external partners! Think, for example, of staying in our hotels at an attractive employee rate and discounts in the restaurants of Van der Valk International. Additionally, you earn rewards (e.g., on your birthday) that you can exchange for various vouchers.