People Operations Manager

Are you a detail-oriented and empathetic HR professional passionate about ensuring smooth daily operations and fostering a positive workplace? We're looking for someone that has extensive experience in people operations, building the function efficiently and creating processes that stick. If you combine that with some experience as a business partner to join our team and manage our HR processes, ensuring everyone feels valued and supported. 

This role is crucial for strengthening our people ops function, where you'll be responsible for the excellence of our day-to-day HR tasks across the employee lifecycle, including meticulous payroll processing, seamless onboarding, accurate administration, and proactive employee support. All of this in the vibrant environment of a scale-up with an international team, where your hands-on contribution directly impacts our team's well-being.

Key responsibilities:

• HR Operations: Execute and maintain all daily HR operations, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with best practices and legal requirements.

• Talent Management: Lead and refine our end-to-end recruitment, onboarding, and offboarding processes. Responsible for Compensation and Benefits administration and development.

• Employee Experience: Proactively support initiatives that enhance employee engagement and wellbeing. Serve as a go-to person for employee questions and concerns, connecting with individuals to understand and respond to team dynamics and 'undercurrents' to foster a healthy and happy team environment.

• Performance & Development: Implement and manage robust performance management processes and build learning and development programs.

• Strategic Partnership: serve as a key operational support and trusted point of contact for employees regarding HR processes and questions. Escalate complex or sensitive issues to the leadership team as needed.

• Systems: Support the implementation and optimization of HR systems and tooling, contributing to a scalable and flawless administration and people operations.

We're Looking for Someone Who:

• Is a true 'people person' with high empathy and a caring character, who genuinely enjoys connecting with colleagues and understanding team dynamics.

• Has 3-5 years of hands-on experience in an HR Operations role, demonstrating meticulous attention to detail..

• Knows their way around Dutch employment laws and HR best practices.

• Loves solving complex problems and can keep things organized.

• Thrives in building inclusive, engaging, and high-performance workplace cultures.

• Can think big-picture strategically while still getting things done on a day-to-day basis.

Why You'll Love It Here: 

You’ll have a huge opportunity to make a positive impact and grow your career. We offer a supportive, flexible environment, a competitive salary, and the chance to make your mark and lead initiatives that truly make a difference.

Competencies

• Adaptability: You're comfortable with change and resourceful in finding new solutions.

• Collaboration: You bring people together, foster teamwork, and address conflicts with a constructive mindset.

• Integrity: You are consistent, accountable, and promote an environment of open communication.

• Organizational Awareness: you are highly observant of team dynamics and can intuitively sense 'undercurrents,' enabling proactive support and timely responses to maintain a healthy and happy team environment

• Problem-Solving: You proactively identify challenges and lead the charge on finding solutions.

• Judgment & Decision-Making: You make well-informed, timely decisions by focusing on the most critical information.

• Planning & Organizing: You are skilled at setting clear goals and executing work efficiently to meet them.

What you get

• Competitive salary + Employee Incentive Program;

• Fun international team and frequent events;

• Dynamic scale-up vibe and lots of opportunities to make an impact;

• Our own office, next to Utrecht Central Station. We have a hybrid way of working with 3-4 days from the office and with Monday and Thursday as our company office days with free healthy lunch;

• 25 vacation days;

• Membership of MyWheels EV car sharing service;

• Learning & Development opportunities;

• Laptop and noise-canceling headphones from Eco-Movement;

• A role with a lot of freedom, challenge, and opportunity – no dull moments, guaranteed!

Why work with us?

We are Europe's leading platform for EV charge point data, delivering the most complete, reliable and enriched data to leading navigation companies, car manufacturers, and Mobility Service Providers. With our data, we want to help our partners to create the ultimate electric driving experience, and thereby accelerate the electric revolution. With an enthusiastic team of 60 and a ''get things done'' mentality, we consider ourselves pioneers and are happy to share that passion with you! Are you ready to shake up the EV market even more?

If you have some questions upfront, please feel free to reach out to xrondhuis@eco-movement.com and we will set up a call shortly after. If you are convinced by now -> apply and I will reach out to you within a couple of days.