The HR Partner Associate Manager acts as a trusted HR partner to business leaders, translating business priorities into effective people strategies and providing hands-on support across the employee lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders and managers on people strategy, organizational priorities and workforce topics.
• Provide HR guidance across employee relations, performance management, talent management, compensation and employee development.
• Support managers in handling complex people situations, ensuring appropriate application of HR policies and local employment practices.
• Lead and contribute to HR transformation and change initiatives, including implementation of new HR processes and systems.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and business leaders on workforce planning, recruitment and onboarding.
• Support annual HR cycles including performance reviews, promotions, compensation and talent reviews.
• Use HR data and insights to identify people trends and recommend appropriate actions.
• Collaborate with HR specialist teams and other stakeholders in a global and matrixed environment.
• Coach managers and contribute to building leadership capability and employee engagement.
• Contribute to projects aimed at improving the employee experience and HR effectiveness.

Experience & skills

• Strong experience as an HR Business Partner or HR generalist, ideally in an international organization.
• Solid knowledge of employee relations and employment/labour law.
• Experience across performance, compensation, talent and organizational change.
• Demonstrated ability to work with senior business stakeholders.
• Experience leading HR projects and managing multiple priorities.
• Strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
• Comfortable operating in a complex, fast-moving, matrix organization.
• Experience with HR systems such as Workday is an advantage.

For the Netherlands role

• Fluent Dutch and English.
• Good knowledge of the Dutch employment environment and ideally familiarity with Works Council topics.
• Ability to work from Amsterdam and travel when required.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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