Overview
HR Business Partner – Netherlands
Job Title: HR Business Partner
Location: Aalten, The Netherlands – Hybrid
Contract: Fixed Term – 12 months.
Package includes: Salary from €55,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your contributions, including discretionary performance related bonus, mobility healthcare benefits and retirement savings.
Germains Seed Technology, a prominent innovator in seed treatments with over 200 experts across eight international locations, is seeking a motivated and commercially minded HR Business Partner to support our diverse teams in Aalten and Enkhuizen. In this pivotal role, you will partner with line managers to enhance leadership capability, embed effective HR processes, and implement people strategies in a continuously evolving environment. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to broaden their HR experience through a wide range of responsibilities, shape and grow a role with room for personal contribution, and be part of a developing organisation with strong international ties—offering valuable exposure to a diverse business and collaboration with teams in the UK.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead and coordinate recruitment, onboarding, and talent development activities in partnership with the central recruitment team, while coaching managers throughout the process.
- Provide guidance and support to managers on managing short- and long-term absence cases effectively and in line with best practices.
- Support line managers in enhancing performance management by encouraging prompt actions regarding underperformance and pinpointing individuals for further development.
- Oversee the annual salary review process and implement CAO changes, ensuring accuracy and adherence to deadlines.
- Promote full utilisation of the HR system by training and supporting managers to ensure compliance and efficiency.
- Manage local HR policies to ensure they are up-to-date, legally compliant, and aligned with CAO regulations, while collaborating with payroll on timely and accurate variance submissions.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Labour Law, or Business Administration, with approximately 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience
- Effective verbal and written communication for presentations and interactions in both Dutch and English.
- Solid foundational knowledge of Dutch labour law and experience working with collective labour agreements (CAO)
- Demonstrated ability to manage performance evaluations, oversee absenteeism issues, and resolve conflicts
- Familiarity with HR systems and tools.
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
Rewarding your Passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
Germains Seed Technology’s mission is to ‘maximise nature’s potential’ by using its seed technology processing know-how and deep expertise to unlock the genetic potential of seeds for food production. At a time when pressure on land, water and resources is greater than at any time in human history, Germains exists to help our customers maximise the productivity and cost-effectiveness of their crops. Our team of around 200 people work across the USA, Europe and the UK.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them
