People Business Partner, Lepaya
€70-80k
3+ days a week in office
Blended training platform for people and business growth
Be an early applicant
Blended training platform for people and business growth
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
€70-80k
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower professionals worldwide to be more effective in their work and to lead happier lives so that they can ignite businesses.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in HR Business Partnering or a similar senior People role
- Strong experience managing complex employee relations and performance cases
- Solid understanding of Dutch employment law and HR best practices
- Experience working with external legal counsel on employment matters
- Comfortable operating as a standalone HRBP in a fast-paced environment
- Strong stakeholder management and coaching skills
- Able to balance strategic thinking with a hands-on approach
- Fluent in English; Dutch is strongly preferred
What the job involves
- As an experienced People Business Partner at Lepaya, you will be the main HR partner for our business, supporting around 80 employees across all functions
- You'll do more than support managers; you'll help shape the people and organizational decisions that enable Lepaya to achieve its ambitions
- By translating business priorities into workforce plans, team structures, and talent strategies, you'll ensure we have the right people, capabilities, and ways of working in place to succeed
- You'll stay close to the business, understanding both current challenges and future needs, while helping leaders make thoughtful decisions on growth, performance, development, and organizational change
- Your goal is to build teams that can perform today while creating a strong foundation for the future
- Develop and co-execute a clear workforce strategy to ensure teams stay aligned with business needs
- Partner with leaders on team effectiveness, performance, engagement, and organizational design
- Translate business goals into people's priorities and workforce plans
- Coach managers on leadership, performance, and team development
- Help teams and individuals navigate changes in strategy, structure, or leadership with clarity and empathy
- Support managers in preparing and delivering change communications, while offering employees a steady, honest point of contacts
- Share insights from your teams and contribute to broader People projects like engagement follow-up, development programs, and org-wide improvements
- Lead complex employee relations cases, including performance concerns, grievances, disciplinary matters, and workplace conflicts
- Partner with managers to address people challenges in a timely and effective way
- Manage investigations and ensure compliant case handling and documentation
- Work closely with external legal counsel when needed
- Drive key people processes, including performance reviews, salary reviews, promotions, commission plan, and other talent discussions
- Identify development opportunities and support employee growth
- Ensure consistency and fairness across people practices and policies
- Work closely with the broader People team: Talent Manager, People Ops, and Head of People, to ensure a seamless experience across the employee lifecycle
- Your first-year achievements
- Trusted advisor to leaders and employees across the business
- Complex employee relations cases are handled effectively, compliantly, and with successful outcomes
- Managers feel confident managing performance and people-related challenges
- Organizational changes and transformation initiatives are implemented successfully
- Core people processes are executed consistently and on time
- Teams remain engaged, productive, and aligned with business priorities
Application process
- Ensuring a smooth candidate journey is our top priority. Here's a sneak peek into our standard hiring process:
- 1. An intro video call with Tracy, from TA
- 2. One hour chat at the office with Constance, our Head of People, and the hiring manager and a 30-minute chat with Lisa, People Ops and finally, an offer!
- We're all about getting to know you better, so we'll invite you to our office for a face-to-face stage, where you can meet potential future colleagues and experience our awesome office vibes firsthand!
Our take
Lepaya is an edtech company which was established with the belief that the right training at the right time is paramount to making organisations more productive. They provide training via a hybrid learning model, combining bite-sized online content with group sessions led by experienced trainers.
Lepaya combines "hard" skills with "soft" skills, which they call "power skills" training. Lepaya has worked with scale-ups such as Mollie, Picnic and Bynder as well as multinationals such as L’Oréal, Microsoft and KPMG.
The global training and development sector is worth billions. And with their 2023 funding boost (the largest annual funding raise in its sector) and 2022 acquisition of UK-based SpeakFirst, Lepaya aims to drive its mission to make fast-growing companies more productive by upskilling their workforce. Lepaya is using the funding and acquisitions to further expand into European markets such as the UK, Germany, and the Nordics.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2023
$38m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$40.2m
SERIES B
Total funding: $85.8m
Company HQ
Jeruzalem, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
René Janssen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, René was an Executive Vice President & Deputy Chief People officer at Lazada Group.
Peter Kuperus
(Co-Founder & CEO)They've previously worked at TravelBird as a Vice President and Manager. They have also co-found Westwing Home & Living NL.
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