What’s it like to revolutionize HR at the fastest-growing online supermarket app in Europe? At Picnic, we’ve reinvented grocery delivery, and our People team is doing the exact same thing for how teams grow, scale, and thrive! As a People Partner - Tech, you aren't an advisor sitting on the sidelines. You're embedded right where the action happens. Partnering directly with ~75 Picnic-ers in our Tech domain, including Software Engineers, Product Owners, and Data Engineers, across our central hubs in Amsterdam, Paris, and Düsseldorf, you’ll take end-to-end ownership of your team’s organizational strategy, from talent development and high-performance coaching to scaling tech team structures.
Tricks of the trade- Performance management: Drive performance and talent across your tech domain by conducting regular check-ins, bi-annual reviews, and performance calibrations with employees.
- People management: Be a trusted advisor and coach to the tech leadership team, playing a critical role in enhancing leadership effectiveness.
- Staffing & Talent: Manage tech talent dynamically to ensure the right engineers and product leaders are in the right roles at every stage of growth.
- Project management: Drive impactful people-related initiatives, leveraging data-driven insights to guide decision-making and deliver proactive solutions.
- Continuous improvement: Design, challenge, and continuously refine core tech people programs, including staffing, onboarding, learning & development, and rotation processes.
- Stakeholder management: Partner closely with tech business leaders to cultivate and enable a strong, effective leadership pipeline.
- Documentation & Ops: Maintain operational rigor by handling all administrative-related tasks around development agreements, contracts, and compensation structures.
Your superpowers
- Master's degree in HR, Psychology, Business, or a related field.
- 3 to 5 years of experience as an HR Advisor, HR Business Partner, or similar role in a fast-paced environment (experience partnering with tech/engineering teams is a strong plus).
- Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional tech stakeholders across multiple levels.
- Proven project management and operations experience.
- Driven to challenge convention, ask "How can we do this better?", and reinvent how work is done.
- A natural ability to coach, support, and develop technical teams and leaders.
- Ability to see the big picture while applying a clear, data-driven approach to complex people problems.
- Fluency in English (Dutch, French, or German is a plus!).
Picnic perks
🥗Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks
Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.
🚴🏼♂️Health insurance discount & bike plan
We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate
✍🏼 Learning & development
You’ll get ample opportunity to work on yourself at Picnic. Interested in improving your mental wellbeing? Through OpenUp you get free access to trained psychologists and many courses.
All the rest
At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in HR, Psychology, or a similar field
- 3 to 5 years of experience as an HR Advisor, HR Business Partner, or similar
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders
- Project management and operations experience
- Ability to challenge convention and reinvent how work is done
- Ability to coach and develop teams
- Big-picture perspective and a data-driven approach
- Ability to work with colleagues at all levels
- Fluency in English
- Fluency in Dutch
What We Do
At Picnic, we’re revolutionizing the way people buy groceries. Our affordable and sustainable service is made possible by our passionate people, cutting-edge technology, efficient planning, and, of course, our fleet of iconic electric vehicles! It’s why our customer base is growing rapidly across the Netherlands, Germany, and France. One of the things that makes Picnic different is that we handle almost everything in-house: forecasting, developing our first automated warehouse and new electric Picnic vehicles, internal and customer-facing applications—the list goes on. It gives us more freedom when it comes to trying out new and innovative ideas, which is something we do a lot! We love to challenge ourselves and learn new things. Our teams have access to various meetups, language classes, ‘Lunch & Learn’ sessions, our very own Tech Academy, and tailored soft-skills training. Professional development is as important to us as the service we provide to our customers. As a diverse team made up of over 80 nationalities, there are always plenty of activities to get involved with, whether you’re into sports, board games, charitable causes, dancing (at our legendary Picnic festival), or licorice tasting—yes, even that! Our scale-up culture means you get to own your role and bring fresh ideas to the table. So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to make a real difference, get in touch—we’d love to hear from you.
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