HR Manager Belgium

The HR Manager Who Led Belgian Works Councils Through 2 Successive Acquisitions

The designated HR Manager had managed Belgian labor structures in a range of organizations with different union configurations and had led several HR functions through structural change. He established the HR operation from scratch for a new affiliate of an international container terminal operator in Zeebrugge, handling over 100 hires across technical, logistics, and management disciplines, building out the HRIS, legal compliance, and labor relations infrastructure simultaneously. He served as acting HR Director in a clinical research laboratory in Belgium, with full strategic and operational HR responsibility for Belgian and international operations. He was in charge of HR in a Belgian fleet management technology company with locations in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Ireland, leading the HR function through two successive acquisitions by global automotive groups. He handled the elections of the social bodies, the works council, and the syndical delegates over both transitions, renegotiated collective labor agreements, and reorganized the workforce at the time of the contraction of the automotive sector. Most recently, he led the Belgian HR function of a consumer goods group that had spun off from its parent. He managed the payroll vendor migration and kept union engagement alive while the new company was setting up independent operations. He is a native Dutch speaker, has an advanced level of French, and is fluent in English. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and a graduate certificate in Corporate Economics from KU Leuven.