Hr Business Partner

We’re looking for an experienced (Interim) HR Business Partner who can step in with confidence, ensure continuity, and support our leaders across the Support Office and Retail. We’re proud to be ranked number 4 in the Great Place To Work in Netherlands!

At Specsavers, we’re dedicated to making eye and hearing care accessible to everyone. Our values — collaboration, curiosity, courage, and compassion — guide everything we do. During this maternity cover, you will play a key role in maintaining the high‑quality HR support our teams rely on.

Your role

As HR Business Partner, you’ll be the first point of contact for Support Office managers, Partners, and Regional Retail Managers on all People matters. You’ll drive HR initiatives that support organizational objectives across stores and the support office, ensuring compliance, engagement, and a great employee experience.

Your responsibilities will include:

Support to Stores

• Deliver HR onboarding, ensuring each understand their responsibilities as employers and people leaders.
• Provide training and guidance on HR-related topics, employment law, and cultural expectations.
• Support Partners and RRMs in performance management, organizational change, and absence management.
• Drive engagement initiatives, including GPTW survey follow-up and action planning.
• Champion Specsavers’ values and culture, focusing on wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion.
• Provide tools and guidance for health & safety compliance and legal obligations.

Support to Support Office

• Partner with managers to enhance leadership capabilities and team performance.
• Ensure best practice in HR admin processes across the employee life cycle: recruitment, onboarding, compensation, engagement, and offboarding.
• Collaborate with the Arbo service provider in dealing with absence and make sure we have up to date knowledge on our sickness and retention figures and be proactive towards the business.
• Support workforce planning, talent development and succession planning.
• Drive training programs and development activities, including workshops and leadership forums.
• Ensure compliance with employment law and accurate people data management.
• Lead and participate in local and regional HR projects (D&I, Wellbeing, GPTW).

Your new team

We’re a passionate and collaborative team with an ambition to take Specsavers’ employee experience to the next level. As HRBP you´ll be working closely with our other HR Business Partner and our Head of P&O NLD. We like to get involved, challenge each other, learn from each other, and have fun together. You´ll also collaborate with many other colleagues at the support office and in the stores.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who has the following qualifications:

• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or senior HR advisor.
• Strong knowledge of Dutch employment law.
• Strong knowledge of Absence Management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Analytical skills and ability to interpret HR metrics.
• Fluency in Dutch and English (verbal and written).
• Experience working in an international, multi-site organization (desirable).
• Experience from retail or consumer goods (desirable).

As a person, we believe that you are:

• Independent, proactive, and able to prioritise under pressure.
• A strong communicator who can both coach and challenge.
• Pragmatic, solutions‑oriented, and comfortable with fast‑changing environments.
• A team player who enjoys collaboration and brings positive energy.

What awaits you upon joining Specsavers

While this is a temporary assignment, you’ll join a warm and collaborative organisation with a strong people‑first culture. And because Specsavers is growing and constantly evolving, interim roles often open doors to longer‑term opportunities — depending on future needs, performance, and organisational fit.

Joining us, you’ll get:

• Competitive interim/temporary contract conditions (7 months contract)
• A competitive compensation and benefits package, including eye care vouchers and wellbeing initiatives.
• Opportunities for growth and development through learning platforms, leadership programs, and personal development plans.
• A strong, unique family culture with social gatherings, celebrations, and a collaborative environment.
• Great coffee, lots of laughs, social gatherings, celebrations, and loads more

Is this your next step? Then apply today

To apply, please send us your CV using the button below. We want to respect your time, so including an application letter is optional. Feel free to apply as soon as possible.

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We review CV’s and call in for interviews continuously and in standard, our recruitment process consists of a screening, 2-rounds of interviews including a personality assessment feedback.

If you’re interested in learning more about the incredible team you’ll be joining and our shared goals as a family business, visit our pages: This is who we are, and This is what we do.

About Specsavers

It’s 1984, on the small Channel Island of Guernsey, when the optometrist couple Doug and Mary Perkins lay the foundation of their new optical company. They revolutionised the market by offering affordable glasses to everyone.

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