Head of People & Culture

A bit about us

Gamma is a leading supplier of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS): we provide voice, data and mobile products and services to the UK, German, Spanish and Benelux business markets.

Gamma is expanding its UCaaS presence in Europe with a family of businesses focusing on digital automation, delivering Gamma-powered services to SME customers via a network of channel partners in Germany, Spain, and the Benelux region. 

We are looking for a People & Culture business partner who wants to take their next steps in their People & Culture career into a Head of People & culture role. You will be functional leading the People & Culture officer, you will be part of the management team in the Netherlands and navigate your way in an international matrix organisation. You have support from our UK people & culture team as well as the management team. We have an open culture where we support growth and will be there for you along the way.  

What will you be doing day-to-day? 📞 

In this position, you are solely responsible for HR in the Benelux (around 80 employees). You report directly to the CEO of Northern Europe and have a dotted line to the Chief People Officer in London. For payroll, you are assisted by a People Officer (part-time). Your main goal in this position is creating and supporting a healthy organization with regards to formation, low sick-rates, happy employees and transparent, solid and reliable People administration and appreciated People management, all compliant with local law and legislation. Furthermore you are: 

• A business partner and sounding board for CEO, Department heads in the Benelux, colleagues from the People Department in the Gamma Group, Chief People officer and international entities;  

• A member of the Management Team in the Netherlands; 

• A condition-creating, advisory and pioneering role in the development and embedding of modern HR policy and participating in the process of organizational and personnel development and change management for example Performance management; 

• Responsible for monthly payroll in NL and solid HR policy, administration and processes; 

• Actively identifying and thinking along with strategic development and translating them to the organization. Quickly recognize the HR processes in the organization (at strategic, tactical and operational level), indicate the bottlenecks and translate this into advice;  

• Point of contact for HR suppliers such as company doctors, insurances and pensions; 

What you’ll need 🚀 

• High level of communication skills for interaction with departments in NL and Gamma Group UK.    

• High level of (written and verbal) Dutch and English for interaction with departments NL, Gamma Group and our HR suppliers. 

• High level of judgment and critical thinking, necessary to deal with the range of strategical, tactical and operational challenges. 

• Academic or bachelor’s degree level of education and thinking in HR. 

• 5 years of experience as People Business Partner in operational, tactical and strategical level. 

• Capable of seamlessly transitioning between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

• You are only a (bike) ride away from our office

What do we offer? 💰 

• 25 days of Holiday 

• A competitive salary 

• Very good Pension plan 

• A mobility budget 

• Learning & Development via our learning platforms 

• Weekly bootcamp sessions to keep you strong & Healthy 

• Healthy fruit in the office 

• A Hybrid workplace but in this role, we would love to have you around the office for three of four days a week.

• Laptop & Phone to make sure you ready to rock! 

A few things to note ✨ 

• This role will require to travel twice or three times a year to our office in Londen to meet with your fellow People & Culture colleagues.  

•  Unfortunately, we can't offer visa sponsorship or relocation support for this role 

• If you feel you could be a good fit for Gamma but do not think that you meet all the requirements, we still encourage you to apply as you could be the person that we are looking for! Gamma is an equal-opportunity employer. We care about inclusion and believe in having diverse teams where everyone can be their true authentic selves.  

• We value each person and their range of backgrounds and actively encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.  

• We don't discriminate based on any protected characteristics e.g., race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability, or age.  

• We are a family-friendly employer with a culture based on trust, autonomy, and flexibility so that you to create a work-life balance and enjoy working here at Gamma. 

  

Please note we only use recruitment agencies registered on our preferred suppliers list and as such, any speculative CVs received will not be considered. Agencies cannot work on this role unless approved by Gamma's recruitment team.