Senior HR Business Partner - Hai Horeca & Leisure

Help build the future of HR within one of the largest hospitality employers in the Netherlands!

The position:

Are you an experienced Senior HR Business Partner, HR Manager, People Business Partner, or Strategic HR Advisor with experience in a multi-site operation? Do you like working at the intersection of strategy, operations, and organizational development? At Hai, you get the opportunity to make an impact within our Horeca & Leisure division. A dynamic environment with locations throughout the Netherlands, where hospitality, people, and performance come together. In this role, you help managers and teams move forward and continue to build a solid HR foundation. You make HR concrete, workable, and visible. You focus on three themes where you make a real difference: Leadership development, Absence & vitality, and Workforce management & personnel planning.

Your role as Senior HR Business Partner:

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you are the strategic and pragmatic sparring and conversation partner for division and operations management. Your base is De Meern, but you work within a national scope and support locations throughout the Netherlands. You work in a dynamic environment with multiple locations, a lot of movement, and a strong focus on daily operations. As a result, you switch effortlessly between MT meetings, analyses, and presence at locations throughout the country. You ensure that HR choices do not remain on paper, but become visible in leadership, team development, and results. With your approach, you bring structure, rhythm, and sharpness: less noise, better cooperation, and more predictability in the operation.

Where you make an impact:

I. Leadership development: You help managers grow in managing people and performance. You work on: strong leadership in the operation; better conversations about development and performance; ownership within teams; a consistent way of leading across locations.

II. Absence & vitality: You bring grip to sustainable employability. You: analyze absence data and patterns; advise managers on interventions; work together with expert teams; ensure that solutions are practical and executable. Goal: healthy teams that can perform sustainably.

III. Workforce management: You help the organization make better personnel choices. You work on: personnel planning; capacity versus demand; roster optimization; peak and off-peak moments; employability and flow. Always with an eye for the reality of hospitality and the long term.

What will you do?

• Be a strategic sparring partner for division and operations management;
• Translate HR strategy into concrete plans that work in the operation;
• Coach managers on performance, absence, employability, and team development;
• Guide organizational change;
• Lead division-wide HR projects;
• Collaborate with expert teams such as recruitment, learning & development, vitality, and employment conditions;
• Work with HR data and steering information to improve behavior and results;
• Guide and strengthen (Junior) HR Business Partners.

What do you bring?

You are analytically strong, organizationally sensitive, and get people moving. In addition, you have:

• HBO or WO working and thinking level (HRM, Business Administration, or similar);
• Minimum 5 years of experience as an HR Business Partner, Senior HR Advisor, or similar role;
• Experience in an operational multi-site environment such as hospitality, leisure, retail, foodservice, healthcare, or services;
• Experience with organizational development, leadership, absence, and workforce management;
• Experience with HR data and steering on insights;
• Driving license B and willingness to visit locations;
• Availability of 32-38 hours per week;
• Due to the nature of the work, a good command of the Dutch language is a requirement.

Our menu for you:

• Gross monthly salary from € 5,500.- (depending on experience);
• Lease car or mobility budget;
• Laptop and phone;
• 25 vacation days (full-time);
• Good pension scheme;
• Training budget and development opportunities;
• Hybrid working and flexibility;
• A lot of independence and room for initiative;
• Working within an organization with social impact.

About Hai Horeca & Leisure:

Hai - Hutten Albron Impactmakers provides food and drink daily at hundreds of locations in the Netherlands. Within Horeca & Leisure, you work for environments such as Albron Center Parcs, Coffeecompany, and other hospitality concepts and locations where hospitality and operations come together. You will become part of an HR team that builds together on strong teams, good leadership, and an organization where people love to work.

Interested?

Would you like to take HR further within a complex multi-site operation? Then we would like to meet you. You will work directly with Desirée Knook, Pauke Hoekstra, Maarten Brouwers, and Bionda Joosen, among others, and will be given the space to make a visible impact on people, teams, and organizational development. Apply directly or drop by first for a cup of coffee. If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to contact Enoc da Costa, Recruitment Business Partner. At Hai, we value diversity and inclusion. We believe there is a place at the table for everyone, regardless of background, identity, or perspective. Together we build an organization where everyone feels welcome and valued.

Application procedure at Hai:

• Applying: Applying at Hai is very simple. Is this your new job? Apply directly via the application button and leave your details. CV is not required! You will receive a confirmation when your application has been received properly.
• Screening: We will get to work with your application. One of our colleagues will contact you by phone as soon as possible so that we can get to know each other.
• The job interview: During this conversation, while enjoying a cup of coffee, we will get to know each other better. On location, you can see where you will work and who your colleagues are.
• Optional: 2nd interview/shadowing day: You will visit our location again so that you can get to know the activities or meet people in a second interview.
• The offer: If you and we are still enthusiastic after the interview, we will gladly make you an offer consisting of a suitable salary and our employment conditions.
• Offer accepted and contract signed? Welcome to Hai! Congratulations on your new job and welcome to Hai!