Snr HRBP UKI and Benelux (GTM)

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships

Job Description

Role Purpose

Join a global tech company where change is constant — and HR is expected to lead from the front. As Senior HRBP, Europe West, you’ll set the tone for HR delivery across UK & Ireland and Benelux, and work at the heart of leadership decision-making with the Managing Director and senior stakeholders.
You’ll translate people strategy into action — fast — while protecting standards on compliance, culture, and organisational effectiveness.

This is hands-on, high-trust, high-impact work — for someone who thrives in complexity, thrives in a dynamic work environment, and knows how to influence when it matters. If you want a role where your judgement, edge, and execution actually shift outcomes — this is it!

Key Responsibilities

Strategic HR Leadership

• Act as a trusted, high‑impact advisor to the Managing Director and senior leadership, bringing strong commercial credibility within sales and pre‑sales environments
• Translate global and regional HR strategies into local execution.
• Collaborate effectively with Global HRBP’s to ensure global strategies are executed locally.

Business Partnering

•  Embed deep, credible partnerships across the business to drive real outcomes — not just advice
•  Lead across the full HR agenda: ER, workforce planning, talent, hiring, and executive coaching
•  Bring a strong commercial lens to challenge, influence, and shape workforce decisions

     High‑Performance Culture

• Drive a high‑performance culture through leadership enablement and performance processes.
• Ensure continuous education on Aspire 2 Thrive framework.

Employee Relations & Legal Compliance

• Oversee employee relations, conflict resolution, disciplinary actions.
• Support Works Councils and Unions, ensuring compliant practices
• Mitigate legal exposure in HR- related litigation

Talent Acquisition, Management & Succession Planning

• Partner with Talent COE on talent mapping and succession planning.
• Support activities which really drive rapid talent acquisition
• Help to assist with workforce planning and development

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach and develop a small team of HR Business Partners/Generalists
• Drive the HR team to ensure that HR is seen as added value, collaborative and business focused. Pro-active and responsive to ensure we support the business goals.
• Set clear expectations round performance, judgment and stakeholder management

HR Strategy & Operational Excellence

• Lead delivery of core HR processes and ensure data accuracy.
• Ensure collaboration with COE’s and that they are educated on activities on the ground so that they have greater impact.

Qualifications

Key Skills & Experience

• • Proven experience as Snr HRBP/ HR Manager ideally in a fast moving technology company
  • Strong stakeholder influence and commercial awareness.
  • Management of small team of HR professionals
  • Matrix/global organisation
  • Strong ER background including Works Councils.
  • Multi‑country HR leadership experience.
  • Knowledge of European labour legislation.

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.