Leading and supporting the Employee HR Life Cycle: hiring, career development, performance and exit. Developing and implementing new HR systems, policies and programs that bring added value to the business. Building and maintaining constructive labor relations. Overseeing the Benelux payroll.

Drive the key HR processes within the Belgian Dow entities Tessenderlo, Edegem, Tertre, Brussels and Zwijndrecht as well as for the Corporate departments in Terneuzen (NL).Highly changing environment.- Industrial relations : building long term relation of trust with the Work's councils of the Belgian entities, able to maintain social peace during times of restructuring and downsizing. - successfull handling of site closure Dow Tessenderlo: application Law Renault, negotiation social plan, collective dismissal of 100 employees- Strategic Talent management : work with leaders in defining the functional and core competencies they need in their organizations, and deriving from it succession plans, future strategic hiring plans, employee development plans

Conceptualize and implement state-of-the-art HR-policy for the company: coordinate recruitment and selection ; performance management, leadership development ; initiate and implement HR projects that fit in the company’s strategic plan: 45+ hiring, exit-surveys, retention, sick leaf; manage a team of 3 HR professionals ; responsibility for the department budget.

labour relations, coaching of line management, recruitment and selection, guide yearly performance appraisal process, employee development. Employer representative in both white collar and blue collar Union Delegation.During 18 months additional role as Payroll-master ad-interim.