HR Operations Manager
- Compensation
- €55K–€70K / yr
- Location
- Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Several years as an HR (Operations) Manager, HR Advisor, HR Coordinator, or Senior HR Officer in the Netherlands.
- Strong grasp of Dutch HR processes: employment documentation, payroll preparation, absence follow-up, employee lifecycle admin.
- Experience with Sickness absence and reintegration cases conform ‘Wet Verbetering Poortwachter’.
- Experience collaborating on multidisciplinary processes and projects with Finance, IT, Quality, payroll providers and/or external advisors.
- Good practical understanding of Dutch employment law and applicable regulations in HR.
- Accurate, consistent, confident with Excel for checks and reporting.
- Dutch: fluent — required for Dutch authority’s communication and execution under Dutch employment law and applicable regulations in HR.
- English: good business level — this is our company language for contracts and employee communication.
- Living in the Netherlands, preferably within reasonable commuting distance of Eindhoven to come 3 days per week to the office.
Nice to have
- Experience working in Exact Synergy, Nmbrs and/or Recruitee.
- Experience with (corporate) recruitment
- Processing Visa/IND procedures and the 30% ruling applications as recognized sponsor.
- Familiar with an international / tech / automotive / software / Brainport environment.
- Driven by HR reporting, dashboards, Power BI and process improvement.
- Skilled in utilizing AI tools from Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.
Full description
Our people come first at NavInfo Europe. We are looking for a proactive, and hands-on HR Operations Manager who owns HR end-to-end in an international, informal, and high-tech environment.
This is a standalone HR role. You do the strategy and the execution: one moment you advise the General Manager on a sensitive case, the next you coordinate payroll input or draft a contract. You bring structure, accuracy, and oversight, and you are comfortable keeping HR running on your own, with support from our office manager and external payroll/tax advisors where it counts.
Why join NavInfo Europe
At NavInfo Europe (NIE), based in the innovative Brainport Eindhoven region, we pioneer automotive cybersecurity, AI-driven data compliance, and advanced navigation solutions. As part of NavInfo's global ambition to become the digital brain behind intelligent driving, our European team specializes in:
- Cybersecurity services — reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery, and security tooling.
- AI and compliance — cutting-edge anonymization methods, GDPR compliance, and smart data curation.
- Navigation data innovation — precision mapping and data-driven mobility insights.
We continuously evolve our services, striving for faster delivery, higher quality, and innovative security standards that directly impact global mobility.
Why we are looking for you
Our current HR Operations Manager leaves the organization per 1 September 2026. This is the long-term HR role for NavInfo Europe/Mapscape/SEEWAY.AI, so an earlier start is a plus. In the meantime, a temporary solution will be in place to provide a proper handover.
As the responsible HR manager, you will report to the General Manager and work closely with Finance, Office Management, IT, Quality, and external advisors such as international payroll, pension and tax advisors. Short lines, real ownership, clear communication.
What you will do
You own the full HR cycle for the organization:
- Payroll & HR administration — coordinate monthly payroll input with Finance and external advisors (four-eyes principle); process contract, hours and role changes; keep personnel files accurate and GDPR-compliant in Exact Synergy.
- Agreements & requests— draft, review and manage employment contracts, letters and other HR requests.
- Recruitment — own the recruitment process end-to-end as facilitator: align with hiring managers on the brief, manage agency contacts, run the funnel in Recruitee, conduct the HR interview, and prepare the job offer.