Job Description
Your purpose at Stanley/Stella
As Senior HR Business Partner International, you act as a strategic partner to our business leaders across multiple regions. You strengthen our people strategy, elevate our employee experience, and ensure that our HR practices support sustainable growth and a high-performance, values-driven culture.
Your mission is to anticipate talent needs, develop our people, enable leaders, and ensure that our HR frameworks, processes, and tools operate seamlessly at global scale. You challenge, advise, and support business leaders with clarity, credibility, and a strong understanding of our international business.
You work closely with the Global HR Manager and collaborate with the wider HR team (Talent Acquisition, Payroll & Administration, Learning & Development, Employer Branding, HR Projects).
Your role and impact
Strategic HR Partnership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to international business leaders, guiding them on people strategy, team structure, leadership effectiveness, and workforce planning
- Translate business needs into concrete HR actions, ensuring alignment with Stanley/Stella’s values and long-term objectives
- Drive organizational development initiatives that support growth, efficiency, and collaboration across regions
- Support proactive talent pipeline building and succession planning across key functions
Learning, Development & Performance
- Partner with leaders to strengthen team capabilities and close skill gaps through structured development plans
- Co-design and deploy training programs supporting our strategic pillars: Sustainability, Innovation, Quality, Leadership
- Ensure a consistent, fair, and impactful performance cycle (goal-setting, mid-year, end-year)
- Guide leaders in building high-performing, values-driven teams
Employee Experience & Culture
- Elevate our global onboarding experience and ensure consistency across regions, from pre-boarding to full integration
- Champion our culture and values by guiding leaders in day-to-day behaviours and team dynamics
- Act as a point of contact for employee relations cases, ensuring fairness, clarity, and compliance with local legislation (in partnership with regional HR/experts)
HR Processes, Data & Continuous Improvement
- Improve and harmonize HR processes internationally, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and digitalization
- Actively contribute to HR governance, reporting, and data-driven decision-making using HR analytics
- Co-lead HR projects across the global HR roadmap (EVP, HRIS development, new policies, global frameworks, AssessFirst rollout, etc.)
Employer Branding & Internal Communication
- Support visibility and consistency of our employer brand across countries
- Collaborate on employer branding initiatives, onboarding materials, training content, and employee communication
About you
Experience & Background
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Psychology or related fields
- Minimum 8–10 years of confirmed experience as HR Business Partner in an international, fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Strong track record of partnering with leadership teams, driving HR programs, and managing complex people topics
- Experience with organizational development, talent management, and change management
- Solid knowledge of EU labour legislation; additional international exposure is a strong asset
Skills & Competencies
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business challenges into actionable HR solutions
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to influence, challenge, coach, and support leaders
- Hands-on, solution-oriented mindset with strong ability to prioritise in a fast-moving environment
- Data-literate, comfortable with HR metrics, dashboards, and HRIS tools (Personio experience is a plus)
- Fluent in French and English; any additional language (Dutch, Spanish, German…) is an advantage
- Values-driven professional who embodies our culture: Entrepreneurship, Respect, Transparency, Customer-Driven
