Your role
Are you ready to be the go-to expert for all things HR related at Lloyds Bank? As our Senior HR Advisor, you’ll bring your specialist knowledge to the table, delivering tailored HR solutions and culturally-focused strategies. You’ll provide professional advice across the bank while keeping things approachable and impactful. Reporting directly to the Head of HR Netherlands, you’ll help shape an environment where our people can thrive.
A day in the life of a Senior HR Advisor
You start your morning with a quick check of your email inbox. Ah, the joys of HR—today’s lineup includes onboarding a new hire, tackling policy updates, and diving into some strategic planning. With your sleeves metaphorically rolled up, you’re ready to take on the day!
Morning Kickoff: First up, you’re hosting an engaging induction session for a group of new colleagues. You share all the essentials, from company culture to perks, and sprinkle in your own personal anecdotes to keep things lively. (Who said HR can’t have a sense of humor?) By the end, everyone’s feeling informed, excited, and a little less nervous about their first day.
Problem-Solving Hero: A manager pings you about a tricky situation with their team—classic. You’re the go-to person for this kind of thing, and after a quick call, you’ve helped brainstorm a fair solution that leaves everyone feeling heard and respected. It’s moments like these when you know you’re making a difference.
Strategic Vibes: Mid-morning, you shift gears for a meeting with senior leadership. You present your ideas for a new initiative to boost employee retention. Your data-backed insights and practical solutions (not to mention your knack for storytelling) win over the room. Mission accomplished—you’re shaping the future of the workplace!
Lunch Break: You head to the lunch area (or, if the weather’s nice,a walk outside!) to recharge. A chat with colleagues over sandwiches turns into a debate about which streaming series deserves a binge—because even HR advisors need a little entertainment in their lives.
Policies & People: The afternoon finds you reviewing updates to HR policies to ensure they’re aligned with current regulations. You blend compliance with practicality, crafting guidelines that actually work for real people. Before moving on, you check in on ongoing mentorship matches—one of your favorite projects that helps colleagues grow their skills and confidence.
End-of-Day Wins: You wrap up the day finalizing an internal newsletter highlighting achievements across the bank. Your inbox is now clear, and you’ve sent out some well-deserved “great job” messages for others’ accomplishments.
As you log off for the day, you reflect on the mix of strategy, collaboration, and care that defines your role. Whether it’s making someone’s first day memorable or shaping policies that matter, you know your work leaves a lasting impact on Lloyds Bank and its people.
Which team will you be joining?
The Senior HR Advisor role is within the People & Places department of Lloyds Bank GmbH Netherlands and you will report to the Head of HR Netherlands. The People & Places department consist out of 9 colleagues.
Key Accountabilities
- Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support the provision of advice and analysis to inform business decisions.
- Support internal customers to ensure their needs are met and helps senior colleagues manage relationships with their teams.
- Deliver advice and guidance, anticipating and providing solutions to a range of problems to facilitate effective people management practices and project delivery.
- Conducts research using primary data sources and selects relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends.
- Identifies shortcomings and suggests improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, then delivers a plan for change.
- Provides input into the development of procedures for HR and monitors implementation.
- Provides SME advice and guidance on several HR topics, e.g. Health & Safety, Speak Up, Learning & Development, Great Place to Work, Talent Management etc.
- Provides colleagues with workshops and career counselling
- Manage the complete absence process: ensure compliance with the "Wet verbetering poortwachter" and support colleagues during their absence.
You recognize yourself in this profile
Experience and Knowledge
- You have at least 6 years of work experience in HR. Any experience with cultural change would be a plus.
- You have good knowledge of the Dutch and English language, both verbal and written.
- You have excellent organisational skills, and you are able to prioritize and keep to deadlines
- You have strong communication skills, tactful, with excellent interpersonal and listening skills
Qualifications
- You have completed your HBO education
Some highlights of our benefits for you
- 13th month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December
- 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on fulltime employment)
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs
Apply to our vacancies by sending your CV and motivation letter to stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. After receiving your application, we'll review it and share a reply as soon as possible.
After you have submitted your application, our recruiter Stanley Waccary will reach out to you to plan a short introductory chat via Teams.
Your first chat with us will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office. The goal of this chat is get to know each other, and see if there's a match with the team, the organisation and the open position.
We're excited to have you meet additional collagues. The chat will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office, during which we'll dive deeper into the requirements of the position and the team you'll be joining.
Congratulations! We're happy to have you as our newest addition to the team. Do you feel the same way? Then you'll receive our offer by email. For most roles, a screening is part of the process. This will take place after accepting the offer.
About Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and other parts of the world. Together with our office in Berlin, we form Lloyds Bank GmbH with its headquarters in Amsterdam and we have over 500 colleagues.
We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.
At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 200 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!
With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!
Are you ready to join our journey?
Have we made you curious, and are you ready to join the team? Please introduce yourself to us in the best way possible and send this to: stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. A screening is part of the process.
We hope to meet you soon!
Acquisition to this vacancy is not appreciated.