# People Business Partner
We're looking for an experienced, people-focused People Business Partner to help scale Innatera through its next stage of growth.
Reporting to the Head of People & Culture, you'll act as a trusted partner to leaders while driving strategic People & Culture initiatives that support Innatera's business objectives. You'll help translate business priorities into practical people solutions and contribute to building a high-performing, scalable, and healthy organisation.
## Key pillars of ownership:
### Strategic People Initiatives
- Develop a deep understanding of the business and translate organisational needs into effective people solutions
- Own and continuously evolve key strategic people initiatives aligned with business objectives, including performance & development management, learning & development, compensation & benefits, and organisational design
- Manage the scope, stakeholders, budget, and external partners related to assigned initiatives, ensuring effective delivery and sustainable business impact
- Use people data, feedback, and business insights to assess what is working, identify risks and opportunities, and drive informed decision-making
### Leadership Business Partnering
- Act as a trusted strategic partner to team leads, helping them build strong, engaged, and high-performing teams
- Provide ongoing guidance on leadership, team dynamics, and culture-related topics through coaching, training, and individual support
- Own and coordinate key manager lifecycle moments, including onboarding, offboarding, role changes, team transitions, performance conversations, and organisational changes
- Help identify capability gaps, leadership challenges, and organisational risks, and work with the Head of People & Culture to address them proactively
### Legal Compliance and Culture
- Ensure compliance with Dutch labour law and internal policies, working closely with legal advisors where needed
- Review, create, and maintain fair, business-aligned people policies that reduce risk and support both employees and the organisation
- Oversee sensitive individual cases, including illness, underperformance, conflict, terminations, and other complex employee relations topics
- Lead and support the coordination and development of Innatera's Works Council in collaboration with the People Operations team
- Support a culture of well-being, psychological safety, inclusion, accountability, continuous learning, and ownership
- Participate in other People & Culture projects and activities as necessary
## What you'll need to succeed:
- Solid experience in a senior HR / People role, such as HR Business Partner, People Business Partner, People & Culture Manager, or similar, with strong hands-on involvement in leadership partnering and employee relations
- Experience working in a fast-growing, international, preferably technology-driven environment where you have supported leaders through growth, change, and evolving people processes
- Strong coaching and advisory skills
- Proven experience supporting managers and employees through complex people topics, including performance, development, conflict, feedback, illness, and terminations
- Experience running or improving core people processes, such as performance reviews, development cycles, goal setting, feedback, calibration, or manager enablement
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguity: taking a broad people topic, shaping a practical approach, aligning stakeholders, and helping move it into execution
- Good understanding of Dutch employment law and internal policy frameworks, with the judgement to know when to involve legal or escalate sensitive cases
- A hands-on, collaborative mindset combined with structured thinking — comfortable moving between strategic topics and operational execution
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain people topics clearly, pragmatically, and with good judgement
- Embody Innatera's core values: We are innovators, we care for our people, we are one, we are competitive, we build value for our customers, and we have a growth mindset