Senior HR Manager

Our HR team wants to create an environment where everyone can be their best, thrive and develop. HR plays a strategic role in helping our leaders shape the organisation and achieve its ambition, driving business performance and making our firm a great place to work.

To help you thrive, you will be part of a collaborative international team, supported by HR subject-matter experts. Increasingly we use automation and technology to simplify people processes, reduce administration and generate richer data and insights to aid decision-making.

Our firm is a people business. The Senior HR Manager is a strategic enabler and a true trusted advisor to the partnership and a leader to the HR team in Belgium. The role will develop and drive the people agenda for the region.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Enable the firm to achieve its strategy and business plans through the design, development and execution of an overall region people strategy, in line with the overarching people strategy of the international firm.
• Partner with the Country Managing Partner to lead and execute the people agenda.
• Establish strong relationships with Partners and colleagues across the firm, continuing the growth of the firm’s values and enhancing their commercial leadership and management abilities.
• Where required manage complex employee relations casework, driving resolution in line with legislation and internal policies.
• Support the firm’s commitment to DEI to embed an agreed action plan in the regions and ensure that leaders/champions are well supported in building a more inclusive future for the firm.
• Lead, inspire and deliver through the team, ensuring that team members are developed, deployed and motivated.
• In collaboration with the Centres of Expertise, lead the talent agenda for Belgium meeting business goals through the attraction, development, engagement, retention and deployment of individuals with the right capability to execute business goals as talent development, recruitment and retention, remuneration, performance management, career pathways, partner development, the work force of the future and diversity and inclusion.
• Participate in the implementation of HR specific projects, taking a lead role where appropriate, to help align the workforce to the strategic goals of the firm. Bring thought leadership and advise on and anticipate strategic HR trends.

Skills and experience

• Significant expertise in Human Resource, with a solid understanding of talent management, learning and development, talent acquisition, reward, performance management and workforce planning. This would have preferably been developed through extensive experience in leadership positions within multi-site, complex and matrixed organisations.
• Successful experience in a similar level role, preferably with a significant element of legal and/or professional services sector experience, working effectively in a consensus-based partnership structure and culture.
• An experienced leader who can show a track record of developing team capability, aligning a team to deliver against core strategic HR objectives.
• Experience of working in an international business is desirable.
• Demonstrable success in partnering with and supporting a business through strategic change.
• Self-assured, naturally inspires confidence in others, quickly building trust and demonstrating innate discretion.
• Capable of delivering clear and impartial advice in a consultative manner.

About us

We're a global law firm helping our clients achieve their goals wherever they do business. Our pursuit of innovation has transformed our delivery of legal services. With offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we deliver exceptional outcomes on cross-border projects, critical transactions and high-stakes disputes.

For our people, that means a world of opportunity. You'll shape the future, have the freedom to seize opportunities, and discover your own path. Together, we unlock our potential and redefine what we can achieve.

At DLA Piper, diversity, equity, and inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging. We strive towards a workplace and culture where everyone feels that they belong, that their voice counts and that they can prosper in their career.

For us, diversity is about the unique blend of talents, skills, experiences, and perspectives that make each of us an individual. We are committed to being accessible and accommodating any reasonable adjustments needed throughout the recruitment process to ensure an inclusive experience for all. If you need any support or adjustments, please let us know.

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to agile working.

Where local legislation permits, we will conduct relevant pre-engagement screening checks prior to your first day.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-engagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.

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