Overview
Are you an experienced HR Business Partner looking for a new international challenge? Do you enjoy connecting with business leaders, shaping HR strategy, and supporting growth across multiple domains? Then you might be the person we’re looking for.
As a Strategic HR Business Partner at Daikin Europe, you act as the trusted advisor for several business units—with a strong focus on our sales organisations. You build close relationships with managers, translate business needs into HR actions, and use data to guide decisions. Together with your HR BP colleagues, you strengthen our organisation across workforce planning, talent management, leadership development, culture, and wellbeing.
Responsibilities
Strategic impact
Partner with business managers to translate their long-term growth ambitions into a solid HR roadmap.
Shape organisational and team development initiatives in a truly international context.
Collaborate closely with HR colleagues at HQ (Belgium) and across our European subsidiaries.
Lead and contribute to projects on workforce planning, recruitment, competence development, talent identification, retention, and more.
Operational excellence & daily partnership
You are the first point of contact for business leaders and support them in areas such as:
HR process optimisation – Adapt and refine HR processes to match evolving business needs.
Change management – Guide managers and employees in building a resilient, futureready mindset.
Selection & recruitment – Support final-stage hiring decisions and challenge the business with creative, long-term talent solutions.
Performance management – Co-lead the annual performance review cycle for employees and management.
Retention & resilience – Use data to identify risks and opportunities, and roll out initiatives such as career pathways, development programs, and workshops.
Reporting & analytics – Own and improve reporting for your departments, using data to drive decisions.
Talent & leadership development – Help managers identify and grow their talent pools.
Stakeholder management – Align with social partners, managers, employees, and HR colleagues on key topics.
Profile
Master’s degree, preferably in an economic field, with interest in social law.
Enjoys variety and switching between different business domains.
Proactive, diplomatic, and solution-oriented.
Willing to travel up to 20%.
Strong analytical skills; comfortable with tools like Excel and SAP.
Creative, hands-on, and able to drive projects to completion.
Fluent in Dutch and English.
We offer
If you want to play a key role in shaping the people strategy of a growing international organisation, we’d love to meet you. This is your chance to influence, innovate, and grow — together with Daikin Europe.
Daikin Europe is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries Ltd. and the leading provider of heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification, and refrigeration technology. The company designs, manufactures and brings to market a broad portfolio of equipment, as well as tailor-made solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial purposes in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). To date, Daikin EMEA has over 12 000 employees across more than 59 consolidated subsidiaries. It has 12 major manufacturing facilities based in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Austria, and the UK. Our aim is to drive sustainable and effective solutions, sparking a good climate for the generations to come. And all this can only be achieved because of our People.
Good climate starts with people Our employees are the beating heart of our company. At Daikin, you get to work in a positive environment backed by trust, creativity and continuous improvement. Together, we create our top-quality solutions by empowering talented teams. You will get plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. We are deeply committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace culture that reflects the communities we serve. Good climate starts with people.
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