Head, HR Business Partners

Who we are:

For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

This new post of Head, HR Business Partners in Brussels will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform and evolve our People services to support NATO’s Digital Transformation.  The Head, HR Business Partners will join the internationally dispersed Chief People Office (CPO) who are a key enabling function of the NCI Agency delivering strategic and operation HR Services to hire, train and retain our diverse and international employees.  The Chief People Office has been through a major transformation in its people, processes and technology and now is an exciting time to join a team that is continuing to evolve how to support a growing technology service provider to the NATO community.

Under the guidance of the Chief People Officer and as a key member of the CPO management team, this new position is responsible for leading and overseeing the Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) team. The Head, HRBP will be a dynamic leader, tasked with developing and executing a comprehensive people strategy that aligns with and enables the realisation of the Agency’s strategic objectives.

The Head HRBP will inspire, lead and manage a diverse international team of senior and professional HRBPs. The HRBP team are a critical link between the CPO and the business areas where they proactively support the business by establishing and executing the people strategy and planning, fostering trusted relationships with senior leaders and managers. The HRBP’s evaluate the organisation’s capabilities and collaborate across the CPO to plan, design and implement the optimal HR solutions to ensure the business can deliver on their current plans and future organisational objectives.  The Head HRBP will focus on three keys areas:

·       Strategy:  Input to the overall people strategy, and drive it across all organisational elements. Staying abreast of industry trends you utilise available people data to evolve the business performance and support them in making effective data-driven decisions

·       Leadership and stakeholder management: Lead, inspire and develop a team of highly professional HRBP’s and be responsible for building trusted relationship between CPO and senior leaders across the NCI Agency

·       HRBP Responsibilities:  communicate with a high level of impact with strong influencing and collaborating skills, using your experience and knowledge on industry trends, best practices, benchmarks and proven models to anticipate and diagnose the impact of external environment and macro trends to inform decisions related to setting strategy, policy, practices and business initiatives

For the full and detailed list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site.

About you:

We’re looking for knowledgeable HR leader with the ability show a progression in seniority of HR roles.  You need to be an expert in communication where you exceed in building trusting strategic relationships from the board room to the server room.  You are eager and able to produce new ideas, approaches and insights to deliver innovate solutions to problems.  Able to adapt to changing circumstances you can manage ambiguity, accept new ideas and change initiatives, further to this you have:

·       A Master’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in Human Resources

·       Extensive and progressive Human Resources experience leading and managing an internationally dispersed team of HR professionals, preferably in a technology or commercial organisation

·       A successful track record as a trusted advisor and influencer of business leaders and the strategic direction of an organisation

·       Experience in HRBP roles requiring the ability to think both strategically and tactically when making decisions. This involves aligning people strategies with overall business objectives

·       Demonstrated experience with change and project management; Deep project and change management skills

·       Ability to analyse and provide meaningful statistics to make data driven decisions in measuring the effectiveness of the people programs/initiatives and making informed recommendations for improvement

·       Experience on providing leadership coaching to build essential capabilities and address and resolve employee issues

·       Proven experience building strong business partnerships and executive presence; able to establish credibility and support with operating leaders and Human Resource team

What we offer:

·       Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history

·       3 year contract with competitive tax-free monthly salary of 8,754 EUR and household and children’s allowances.   

·       Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave

·       Excellent private health insurance scheme

·       Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays

·       NATO Pension Scheme

·       Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website. 

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability. 

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCI Agency career site.

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