HR Manager (Manager People team)
Key Skills
Job Description
We're working on a challenging and incredibly exciting mission: to bring cultured meat to market. A crucial part of building a great team is to find someone to be driving force behind Mosa Meat's People & Culture strategy. We are currently looking for a HR Manager (Manager People team) to join our Operations Team. The ideal candidate would have a deep and broad, all-round HR experience, of which some years in a leadership or manager role. Furthermore, we are expecting proven knowledge of organizational culture, talent development, and leadership as well as Dutch labor law, compensations & benefits, pensions, and HR & payroll processes. Do you want the same as we do? Would you like to be a crucial part of bringing cultured meat to market, having a massive positive impact on the planet from an environmental and animal welfare perspective? Do you love to collaborate with a great international team of world-class scientists and engineers in a fast-paced and exciting scale-up environment? Do you want to help build a sustainable food future and lay the foundation for a fast-growing, innovative pioneer organization? What is the purpose of your role? The HR Manager (Manager People team) is responsible for designing, managing, and securing Mosa Meat's overall People and organizational strategy. The role acts as a strategic sparring partner for the management team, provides direction to the People team (HR team), and translates organizational goals into sustainable HR policies (talent, culture, compensation & benefits, compliance, and HR operations). In addition, the HR Manager (Manager People team) takes on operational activities to enable smooth HR support to the entire organization. What will be your responsibilities? As HR Manager (Manager People team), you are the driving force behind Mosa Meat's People & Culture strategy. You are a critical partner for our Management Team (MT). You lead a close-knit People team. Operational HR services are provided jointly through a clear division of tasks: on the one hand focused on culture, talent development, onboarding experience, and employee engagement, and on the other hand focused on personnel and payroll administration, Compensation & Benefits, HR systems, and laws and regulations. You oversee the bigger picture: from designing our salary structure and leadership programs to ensuring a clear division of tasks and legal compliance. You effortlessly switch between a long-term strategic vision and pragmatic action. What will you do? People Strategy & Organizational Design: Shaping and rolling out the multi-year vision on talent, absenteeism, organizational design, and leadership. MT Sparring Partner: Solicited and unsolicited advice to leadership on organizational changes, workforce planning, and team dynamics. Compensation & Benefits: Further developing our job and salary structure, benchmarking employment conditions, and professionalizing secondary benefits (pension, mobility, WKR). Team Leadership & Learning & Development: Coaching, inspiring, and managing the People team, as well as developing and securing a strong middle management leadership layer. Labor Law & Compliance: Ultimately responsible for compliance with Dutch labor law, GDPR, health & safety and absenteeism policies, and contract management. What are we looking for? Education & Experience: A completed higher professional or university degree (e.g. HRM, Business Administration or Labor Law) and at least 6 to 8 years of all-round HR experience. Leadership Track Record: At least 3 to 5 years of experience in a leadership or coordinating People role (such as HR Manager, Head of People, or Lead HR Business Partner). All-round Knowledge: You combine a strong affinity with culture, connection, and coaching with sound substantive knowledge of Dutch labor law, compensation & benefits, pensions, Gatekeeper Act (Poortwachter), and payroll processes. Hands-on & Strategic: You possess a strategic helicopter view, but are pragmatic enough to actually get things done ("strategic where necessary, hands-on where needed"). Communication & Languages: Excellent social and influencing skills. Fluent in both Dutch and English (our working language). Scale-up DNA: Experience in a fast-growing, multidisciplinary, or technology-driven organization is a strong plus. What can you expect from us? We are a rapidly growing team working on an innovation that we believe will have a huge global impact. As part of this exciting project, you will get to: Enjoy an entrepreneurial work culture with lots of freedom in your work and flexibility in your working hours (if the role allows for it). Enjoy 25 days of paid leave per year (based on a full year/full-time (40h)). The option between a part-time (32h/week) or a full-time (40h/week) working week. The possibility of a 38h/week full-time schedule in order to create 13 extra (ADV) days in the year. Expected an attractive, market-competitive salary package tailored to your experience and background. Work close to the center of the beautiful and historical city of Maastricht. Being part of a dynamic and fun team and work environment. Ready to make an impact and write history with us? We warmly invite you to apply with your CV and a short motivation. We look forward to your application! Please note that we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. In case you have any questions, you are more than welcome to contact our Interim Head of People, Michel Willems at [email protected]. Please be aware that emails coming from our automated Homerun system occasionally end up in spam/junk mail filters!
Core Responsibilities
Lead Mosa Meat’s People and organizational strategy, advise the management team on organizational changes and workforce planning, and manage the People team. Develop talent, leadership, compensation and benefits programs while overseeing HR operations, payroll, labor-law compliance, and related policies.
Requirements
Requires a completed higher professional or university degree in a relevant field and 6–8 years of broad HR experience, including 3–5 years in a leadership or coordinating People role. Candidates should have knowledge of Dutch labor law, compensation and benefits, pensions, the Gatekeeper Act, and payroll, along with strong communication skills and fluency in Dutch and English.
Benefits
- 25 Days of Paid Leave
- Flexible Working Hours
- Part-Time or Full-Time Schedule Options
- Option to Work 38 Hours per Week and Receive 13 Additional Days Off
- Market-Competitive Salary
- Entrepreneurial Work Culture
- Work Near Maastricht City Center
About Mosa Meat
Industry: Food & Beverages
Company size: 51-200 employees
In 2013, our Chief Scientific Officer Professor Mark Post unveiled the world’s first cultured meat hamburger to a packed press conference in London. The burger was harvested directly from cow cells, rather than raising and slaughtering a whole animal. It was the result of years of research at Maastricht University, and cost €250,000 to make. The effort was funded by Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. Our motivation was to find a new method to make real meat to feed our fast-growing population in a sustainable, healthy and animal-friendly way. Following the success of the first hamburger, we created Mosa Meat to commercialise cultured meat (also known as clean meat, cultivated meat or cell-based meat) and bring it to plates everywhere. In the past few years we’ve made significant scientific breakthroughs, and brought the price down considerably. We’re now focussed on scaling up the production process, and getting our first products to market.