HR Business Partner

Are you passionate about people and leadership? Join Specsavers as our new HR Business Partner and help create workplaces where employees thrive. We’re proud to be ranked number 4 in the Great Place To Work in Netherlands!

At Specsavers, we’re dedicated to making eye and hearing care accessible to all. As pioneers and a global leader in innovative technologies, we help people optimise their vision and hearing. We foster your expertise, welcome you into a supportive family, and propel your growth. Grounded in our collaboration, curiosity, courage, and compassion values, we strive to challenge the status quo and invite you to team up with us.

Your role

As HR Business Partner, you’ll be the first point of contact for Support Office managers, Partners, and Regional Retail Managers on all People matters. You’ll drive HR initiatives that support organizational objectives across stores and the support office, ensuring compliance, engagement, and a great employee experience.

Your responsibilities will include:

Support to Stores

• Deliver HR onboarding, ensuring each understand their responsibilities as employers and people leaders.
• Provide training and guidance on HR-related topics, employment law, and cultural expectations.
• Support Partners and RRMs in performance management, organizational change, and absence management.
• Drive engagement initiatives, including GPTW survey follow-up and action planning.
• Champion Specsavers’ values and culture, focusing on wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion.
• Provide tools and guidance for health & safety compliance and legal obligations.

Support to Support Office

• Partner with managers to enhance leadership capabilities and team performance.
• Ensure best practice in HR admin processes across the employee life cycle: recruitment, onboarding, compensation, engagement, and offboarding.
• Collaborate with the Arbo service provider in dealing with absence and make sure we have up to date knowledge on our sickness and retention figures and be proactive towards the business. 
• Support workforce planning, talent development and succession planning.
• Drive training programs and development activities, including workshops and leadership forums.
• Ensure compliance with employment law and accurate people data management.
• Lead and participate in local and regional HR projects (D&I, Wellbeing, GPTW).

Your new team

We're a passionate and collaborative team with an ambition to take Specsavers' employee experience to the next level. As HRBP you´ll be working closely with our other HR Business Partner and our Head of P&O NLD. We like to get involved, challenge each other, learn from each other, and have fun together. You´ll also collaborate with many other colleagues at the support office and in the stores.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who has the following qualifications:

• Solid background in HR, including experience in an HRBP role and good understanding of key HR processes.
• Strong knowledge of Dutch employment law.
• Strong knowledge of Absence Management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Analytical skills and ability to interpret HR metrics.
• Fluency in Dutch and English (verbal and written).
• Experience working in an international, multi-site organization (desirable).
• Experience from retail or consumer goods (desirable).

As a person, we believe that you are:

• Independent, proactive, and self-driven with the ability to manage tasks and projects through to conclusion.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to coach, support, and challenge managers constructively.
• Flexible and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Great team player who values knowledge sharing.

What awaits you upon joining Specsavers

At Specsavers, you'll get more than just a job. You will join us on a journey to make eye health services easily accessible to everyone.

We offer you an exciting and challenging everyday life and career in a company with success and ambitions. You will also be part of a workplace with a strong, unique family culture and a community that extends beyond a single department.

Joining us, you’ll get:

• A competitive compensation and benefits package, including eye care vouchers and wellbeing initiatives.
• Opportunities for growth and development through learning platforms, leadership programs, and personal development plans.
• A strong, unique family culture with social gatherings, celebrations, and a collaborative environment. 
• Great coffee, lots of laughs, social gatherings, celebrations, and loads more

Is this your next step? Then apply today

To apply, please send us your CV using the button below. We want to respect your time, so including an application letter is optional. Feel free to apply as soon as possible.

Please avoid including any photos or references to your age in your CV. It contributes to a fairer and more unbiased assessment.

We review CV’s and call in for interviews continuously and in standard, our recruitment process consists of a screening, two rounds of interviews including a personality assessment feedback.

If you're interested in learning more about the incredible team you'll be joining and our shared goals as a family business, visit our pages: This is who we are, and This is what we do.

About Specsavers

It's 1984, on the small Channel Island of Guernsey, when the optometrist couple Doug and Mary Perkins lay the foundation of their new optical company. They revolutionised the market by offering affordable glasses to everyone.

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Specsavers is one of the best workplaces

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Diversity & Inclusion at Specsavers

Specsavers will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected factor.

In line with our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we integrate these principles into all aspects of our work, from product development to teambuilding.