Regional People Partner (m/f/d)

We’re looking for a hands-on, results-oriented Regional People Partner to join our growing People team in Berlin. In this role, you’ll own the end-to-end employee lifecycle in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, while also supporting our central team in Germany. 

You’ll serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and employees alike. You’ll partner with our General Managers and central People Team to foster an engaging, high-performance culture. You’ll play a key role in delivering a consistently great people experience across Western Europe and beyond, enabling our talents to do their best work.

ABOUT THE ROLE

People Operations

• Own and execute the key lifecycle moments for your region—onboarding, contract changes, leaves, and exits—ensuring a seamless, high quality, and compliant experience.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all People topics in your region, resolving queries in our inbox and help desk
• Identify pain points and implement improvements to make People Operations processes more efficient, automated, and scalable
• Maintain data accuracy for your region in our HRIS (Personio) and work closely with Payroll to ensure timely and accurate data input for smooth payroll input processes.
• Keep our internal knowledge base (Notion) up to date with clear localized information.
• Manage regional compliance topics, including health & safety, benefits administration, etc.

People Partnering

• Partner with General Managers and local teams to strengthen our culture, driving engagement initiatives with regional teams.
• Act as a strategic partner to regional leaders, e.g. with regard to organizational design, talent planning, workforce strategy and payroll budgets.
• Lead performance review cycles and calibration sessions. Partner with leaders on talent reviews, succession planning, and career development initiatives.
• Identify training needs and design and deliver tailored learning sessions to upskill teams and leaders.
• Handle employee relations cases, ensuring fair, timely, and compliant resolutions.
• Provide expert guidance on country-specific employment laws and regulatory requirements.

ABOUT YOU

• 4+ years of experience in a People Partner / HR Operations Lead role with multi-country responsibility
• Strong knowledge of employment law in at least 2 of the covered countries, with the motivation to develop expertise in the others.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and at least one of the following at C1 level: German, Dutch, or French.
• Motivated to help shape the future of People processes and People partnering at Numa, building new frameworks from scratch or improving upon existing ones.
• High attention to detail and comfortable managing sensitive data accurately.
• Proactive, autonomous, solution-oriented, and skilled at navigating complex or ambiguous situations.
• Strong stakeholder-management abilities and a collaborative, relationship-driven working style.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring how AI can enhance People processes and the employee experience.
• Willingness to work from our HQ in Berlin at least 3 days per week, with occasional travel to the regions you support.