Team Leadership
- Provide guidance, coaching and structure to your team of two direct reports, ensuring strong HR service delivery and continuous development of their capabilities.
- Act as a people leader who promotes collaboration, clarity, and accountability within the HR function.
Strategic HR Business Partnering
- Act as an active member of the Site Leadership Team, defining HR policies and processes aligned with business needs.
- Support leaders in shaping the most effective organizational structure.
- Anticipate talent and capability needs in line with site evolution and development.
- Understand operational challenges and provide actionable HR insight to support decision-making.
Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning
- Ensure compliance with recruitment policies, while proactively recommending improvements.
- Oversee the preparation and validation of job descriptions, interview guides, and recruitment documentation.
- Conduct pre-screenings, coordinate interviews, and participate in final selections.
- Manage the full hiring administration process and maintain an organized talent pipeline.
- Lead a structured onboarding and integration process (induction, training, administrative setup, etc.) to secure long-term talent retention.
Compensation & Benefits
- Support payroll administration with accurate HR inputs.
- Develop and maintain competitive compensation and benefits packages in line with group policy.
- Lead salary negotiations for new hires and existing staff, ensuring fairness and internal equity.
- Consolidate annual salary review proposals and liaise with Group HR for board approval.
- Monitor market trends to ensure competitive positioning and lead the site's implementation of the Pay transparency Directive.
- Guarantee accuracy and timely submission of payroll information together with your team members.
HR Policies, Procedures & Social Legislation
- Ensure local HR practices comply with Belgian legislation and group standards.
- Deploy and continuously improve core HR policies (leave management, payroll transitions, training policy, internship policy, onboarding, etc.).
- Ensure compliance with local legal frameworks and best practices.
Core HR Processes & People Development
- Work with managers to ensure clear objective-setting for all new employees.
- Lead the performance management cycle, monitoring deadlines and training managers as required.
- Deploy goal-setting processes in coordination with the Leadership Team.
- Build and implement the site's annual training plan aligned with capability development priorities.
- Support managers in handling performance issues constructively and professionally.
The ideal candidate can demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Master's degree in Human Resources or Social/Employment Law or equivalent by experience
- Minimum 10 years of HR experience within an industrial or manufacturing environment
- Solid HR generalist background with both strategic and hands-on responsibilities.
- Strong knowledge of Belgian labor law and proven experience in social dialogue with union representatives.
- Demonstrated leadership experience, ideally including the management of a small HR team.
- Strong organizational, project-management, and change-management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with multicultural teams.
- Fluent in French, English and Dutch.
- A strategic leadership role with direct impact on people, culture, and site performance.
- Opportunity to shape organizational design and drive key HR initiatives in a growing pharmaceutical environment.
- A collaborative, international company culture committed to excellence and innovation.
- Permanent contract with a competitive salary package, complemented by attractive fringe benefits, including a company car, group insurance, hospital insurance, meal vouchers, a performance bonus, and net allowances.