HR Country Leader Netherlands

Job Description SummaryAs the Netherlands HR Country Leader and Senior HR Business Partner, you will shape and execute the people strategy for our Eindhoven manufacturing site, our Hoevelaken sales and service office and our Radiopharmacies, while providing HR leadership across the Netherlands. You will partner closely with business and site leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent development, and employee engagement. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will help leaders navigate change, strengthen culture, and achieve business goals in a complex global environment. You will lead country HR governance, employee relations, and Works Council engagement while ensuring compliance with Dutch employment legislation. This role requires a visible, hands-on leader who can influence senior stakeholders, manage complexity, and translate business priorities into practical people solutions. You will be a member of the local Management Teams.
This position offers a hybrid work arrangement, with a minimum of three days per week spent on-site in Eindhoven, enabling close partnership with business leaders and employees while maintaining flexibility.

Job Description

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our purpose is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

GE HealthCare in Eindhoven produces and distributes radiopharmaceutical products for hospitals worldwide. As part of the Pharmaceutical Diagnostics (PDx) business of GE HealthCare, we support the PDx vision of being the best-in-class supply chain delivering the right dose to the right patient at the right time.

The GE HealthCare Radiopharmacies Netherlands organization consists of three radiopharmacies located in Eindhoven, Leiderdorp, and Zwolle. These radiopharmacies prepare and deliver ready-to-use radiopharmaceutical syringes to hospitals across the Netherlands, supporting healthcare professionals in providing timely diagnostic care to patients.

GE HealthCare in Hoevelaken serves as the hub for our Healthcare Systems Sales and Service organization in the Netherlands. Our teams work closely with hospitals and healthcare providers to deliver industry-leading medical technologies and services across imaging, ultrasound, patient care, and digital solutions. Through strong customer partnerships, we help healthcare organizations improve productivity, advance clinical excellence, and provide better outcomes for patients nationwide.

Essential Responsibilities

• Partner with site, country, and business leaders to develop and execute people strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Lead workforce planning, organization design, succession planning, talent management, and leadership development initiatives for the different entities in the Netherlands.
• Serve as the Netherlands HR Country Leader, ensuring consistent application of company policies, local practices, and statutory requirements.
• Provide expert guidance on Dutch employment law, employee relations, organizational change, and workforce risk management.
• Build strong relationships with Works Councils, ensuring effective consultation and compliance.
• Coach and challenge leaders to enhance leadership effectiveness, team performance, accountability, and inclusion.
• Use workforce data and business insights to identify trends and drive decisions related to talent, engagement, productivity, attrition, and organizational health.
• Lead and develop local HR capability while collaborating closely with specialist HR teams to deliver a high-quality employee and leader experience.
• Collaborate with HR colleagues from different countries and play an active role in international HR initiatives and projects.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Labor Relations, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Progressive HR experience, including strategic HR business partnering and employee relations.
• Proven experience supporting operational, manufacturing, supply chain, or other complex business environments.
• Strong knowledge of Dutch employment legislation and experience collaborating with Works Councils.
• Demonstrated experience leading organizational change, talent initiatives, and workforce planning activities.
• Ability to influence and partner effectively with senior leaders in a matrix organization.
• Fluency in both Dutch and English, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work regularly on-site in Eindhoven and travel domestically as required.

Behaviors

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Total Rewards

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

 

Inclusion & Diversity

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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