HR Business Partner (Interim / Freelance)

An international scale-up with around 420 employees across the Netherlands, Germany, New York and beyond is looking for an interim HR Business Partner. The company is in an interesting phase: after significant growth, the focus is now on building more structure, clarity and focus.

This is a broad, hands-on role. You'll pick up ongoing projects, manage an HRIS transition, support a performance cycle rollout and help run an engagement survey, all while keeping the day-to-day moving. The team works informally and directly, and that's exactly the kind of environment where you'll thrive.

💼 What you'll be doing

✨ Taking ownership of Rippling, the company's recently implemented HR system, and managing it day-to-day

✨ Leading the EOR transition: migrating approximately 10+ international employees across different countries into Rippling before 1 January

✨ Supporting the rollout of the performance review process in Rippling for the first time, including configuring workflows, permissions and requests correctly

✨ Structuring the sales compensation process: managing templates, aligning with stakeholders and ensuring consistency heading into 2027

✨ Running the annual engagement surve, building a priority matrix and driving at least one deep-dive into the key outcomes

✨ Supporting Finance and HR during year-end activities and external audits where HR data is needed

🧠 Who we're looking for

✅ Experienced as an HR Business Partner, ideally in a fast-moving, international environment

✅ Tech-savvy: you're comfortable with HR systems, data and tooling, and you pick up new platforms quickly. Experience with Rippling is a bonus, not a requirement

✅ Confident with stakeholders: especially in the sales compensation work, you know how to hold the line, protect templates and push back when needed

✅ Fluent in English, Dutch is useful but not the working language here

✅ Someone who hits the ground running. You don't need much handholding to get up to speed and start making an impact

✅ A good cultural fit for a scale-up: pragmatic, flexible, communicative and comfortable when a lot is happening at once

📍 Rotterdam, (right next to Rotterdam Centraal)

📅 Start: no later than 1 November, with 2–3 weeks of overlap for handover

⏰ 3 days/week in November, 4 days/week from December onwards

🗓️ Tuesday is the fixed team day; presence on that day is strongly preferred

📄 Interim / maternity cover assignment

🤑 Hourly rate: €80 - €85

Interested? Apply below👇