People Operations

• HR Business Partnering: Sit close to the CEO and leadership team as the person who translates business goals into people decisions
• Define company culture and help it take root across the team
• Design how Sendent hires, retains, and develops people as it scales
• Advise on people decisions that shape the company's future — not just execute them
• Plan for how the company operates and can grow sustainably at 25, 50, and 100 people — not just today
• Build onboarding, policies, and HR foundations from scratch — and run them day-to-day once they exist
• Own recruitment end-to-end: job descriptions, interviewing, offers
• Manage Dutch employment contracts, payroll basics, and compliance — flagging issues before they become problems
• Stay close to the detail — see your decisions play out, not just hand them off
• Direct an admin allrounder who supports you on operational tasks

Founding HR & People Manager – HRBP Mentality

• Work closely with the Talent Manager and the wider Talent team to develop and deliver talent initiatives across the organisation.
• Turn strategic ideas into practical frameworks, tools, and solutions that support employees in stores, distribution centres, and offices.
• Coordinate projects, work with International HR Managers and other stakeholders, and help keep initiatives on track.
• Prepare presentations, reports, and project updates while maintaining project documentation.
• Support talent topics such as learning, performance management, succession planning, and career development.
• Look for opportunities to improve processes and make development simple and effective.

People Development Specialist

• Work closely with the Talent Manager and the wider Talent team to develop and deliver talent initiatives across the organisation.
• Help turn strategic ideas into practical frameworks, tools, and solutions that support employees in our stores, distribution centres, and offices.
• Coordinate projects, work with International HR Managers and other stakeholders, and help keep initiatives on track.
• Prepare presentations, reports, and project updates, while maintaining project documentation and supporting talent topics such as learning, performance management, succession planning, and career development.
• Look for opportunities to improve processes and make development simple and effective.

• Bring to life key employee moments (onboarding, recognition, company milestones, change moments)
• Support company-wide initiatives like Hackathon and People programs such as In Motion
• Create content across formats (copy, visual, video, social)
• Experiment with new tools and formats, including AI-supported approaches
• Contribute to employer branding and recruitment marketing campaigns
• Use data and insights to improve how we communicate and engage

People Communications Intern – Internal Comms, Employer Branding

• Act as the trusted People & Culture partner for managers and employees across your designated business areas, supporting approximately 120 employees.
• Build strong relationships with managers, providing professional advice and coaching on all people-related topics, including performance management, talent development, employee relations, leadership, and organizational effectiveness.
• Manage absenteeism cases and support managers in applying the company's absence management processes and Dutch employment legislation.
• Support and facilitate the annual performance management cycle, including objective setting, performance reviews, development planning, and talent discussions.
• Partner with business leaders on organizational changes, workforce planning, restructuring initiatives, and change management.
• Support the integration and embedding of Stora Enso's culture, values, and leadership behaviours across the different business entities.
• Advise managers on employment legislation, HR policies, and best practices, ensuring consistent and compliant application across the organisation.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, internal mobility, learning and development, and succession planning where appropriate.
• Work with HR data and people analytics to provide insights that support informed business decisions.
• Ensure effective use of HR systems, including Workday and AFAS, maintaining high-quality employee data and supporting continuous improvement of HR processes.
• Contribute to BU Western Europe People & Culture projects and initiatives, including the Engage employee survey, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) programmes, leadership development initiatives, wellbeing activities, and other strategic people priorities.
• Take ownership of, or actively contribute to, cross-functional People & Culture projects that support the BU Western Europe people agenda and drive continuous improvement.
• Build and maintain constructive relationships with employee representatives and other internal stakeholders where applicable.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, improve, and professionalise People & Culture processes and ways of working.

People & Culture Partner

• Build and run core People Operations processes across the employee lifecycle
• Own workflows for contracts, onboarding, offboarding, employee records, HRIS/data hygiene, policies, and documentation
• Manage probation tracking and make sure managers hold timely review conversations
• Maintain and improve the employee handbook and core people documentation
• Work closely with Finance on payroll, employment cost tracking, and related approvals, coordinating with external advisors where needed
• Identify people risks early and escalate clearly to the COO and leadership team
• Support hiring managers with role setup, interview process, candidate communication, offer workflows, and hiring process discipline
• Work closely with technical recruiters on niche talent sourcing, candidate pipeline quality, hiring priorities, interview process, and offer coordination
• Support remote and international hiring, including employment, payroll, contract, relocation, and onboarding approaches for hires in other European countries
• Coordinate 30% ruling applications for eligible employees in the Netherlands with external advisors
• Ensure our people processes are grounded in Dutch employment practices while scalable enough for a distributed European team
• Improve our trackers, templates, checklists, dashboards, and operating rhythms for people processes
• Turn ambiguous people operations problems into practical workflows with clear owners, timelines, and next steps
• Drive follow-through across managers, hiring teams, external advisors, and internal stakeholders
• Use tools such as Notion, Ashby, HRIS platform, Slack, ChatGPT, and AI agents to reduce manual work and improve visibility
• Gradually help build lightweight processes for performance reviews, salary reviews, role clarity, and future People function scaling

People Operations Lead

• Play a critical role in supporting the success of Kramp and our Software Engineers.
• Help software engineers grow, feel empowered, and do their best work.
• Support product teams working with Agile principles.
• Encourage a strong sense of ownership and collaboration across teams.
• Foster the happiness and satisfaction of engineers and provide opportunities for transitioning between teams.
• Track key metrics such as employee net promoter score (NPS), team health, and retention rates.

Tech People Manager

• Support the onboarding journey for new employees by coordinating introduction programs, organizing onboarding activities, and ensuring all practical arrangements are in place for a smooth and welcoming start.
• Actively contribute to ongoing People & Culture initiatives such as internal events, the DE&I employee resource group, and team-building activities.
• Help foster an open, inclusive and engaging company culture by supporting internal communications, tracking and analyzing trends to suggest follow-up actions.
• Support with People & Culture projects such as talent reviews, people survey results analysis, goal‑setting and other company‑wide processes that help teams grow and perform at their best.
• Help coordinate the smooth adoption of our L&D program by boosting attendance, gathering requirements and feedback, and contributing ideas to continuously improve how we support learning across the organization.
• Work closely with the People & Culture team and stakeholders across the company, supporting, where needed, our operations and processes, ensuring information is accurate, up to date and handled with care and confidentiality.

People & Culture Internship

• Build — First and foremost, this is a building role. You'll work closely with the SVP People & Talent to roadmap People products that genuinely serve both employees and the business.
• Master of your craft — You're passionate about HR and stay ahead of how the world of work is evolving. You want an environment where you can shape culture, launch meaningful programs, and have the freedom to experiment.
• Geographic ownership — You'll be the primary point of contact for all hires in the Netherlands, with demonstrated expertise working in-country.
• Business partnership — You'll be the primary HRBP for our technical vertical (security operations, product, and engineering) internationally.
• Coach and support leaders — You'll partner with leaders and employees on day-to-day challenges and strategic decisions, comfortable at all levels and able to balance the big picture with individual needs during rapid scaling.
• Employee experience — You'll build impactful People infrastructure: onboarding, performance frameworks, promotion processes, retention strategies, compensation reviews, and offboarding.
• Cross-functional collaboration — You'll partner with the Director of Talent and L&D Manager on company-wide initiatives and with People Operations on tooling and manager/employee touchpoints.
• Scaling expertise — You take a holistic view of HR and leverage the full employee lifecycle as the foundation for building scalable People processes.

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Founding HR & People Manager – HRBP Mentality

People Development Specialist

People Development Specialist

People Communications Intern – Internal Comms, Employer Branding

People & Culture Partner

People Operations Lead

Tech People Manager

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