HR Site Lead

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About the role:

Join Takeda as HR Site Lead for Lessines and shape the people agenda in a major transformation environment.

How you will contribute:

Reporting to the Site Head, you will lead the HR agenda for our manufacturing site and act as a strategic partner to leaders to ensure transformation success and sustainable adoption. Key accountabilities include:

• Partner closely with the Site Head to deliver the site people agenda: organization design, change execution, leadership alignment, and social dialogue.
• Act as a core member of the Site Leadership Team (SLT), providing pragmatic, business-focused HR counsel to senior leaders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on performance, culture, and key people decisions, ensuring full alignment with policies, governance and legal frameworks.
• Drive engagement through clear communication and consistent storytelling, aligning leaders on messages, expectations and ways of working.
• Shape and execute the site People Strategy, translating business priorities into agile HR plans that evolve with organisational change.
• Embed a high‑performance culture, strengthening feedback practices, performance management, succession planning, capability building and workforce planning.
• Act as a strong connector to Global HR, ensuring alignment on governance, reporting, best practices and decision/escalation paths (two‑way communication link).
• Deploy global frameworks locally, adapting them to Belgian legal and organisational realities while simplifying and harmonising HR processes across the site.
• Use key people indicators (recruitment, engagement, turnover, absence, ER cases) to drive disciplined follow‑up and sustained outcomes with the SLT.
• Lead the site Benefits strategy in partnership with local and global Total Rewards/HR, ensuring competitive positioning.
• Lead and develop the HRBP team (2–3 direct reports), setting clear priorities across daily operations and strategic projects.
• Provide day‑to‑day matrix leadership to Payroll and People & Labor Relations, ensuring consistent support and proactive risk management (capability, engagement, retention, change).
• Safeguard compliance with Belgian social law, internal policies and audit requirements, minimising legal, financial and reputational risk.
• Lead employee relations and social climate: participate in the Works Council and manage union relationships and negotiations.
• Represent Lessines in the manufacturing network, contributing to and deploying global HR initiatives locally.
• Build strong alignment with the Zaventem entity, establishing common practices where possible (e.g., benefits, processes, governance).

What you bring to Takeda:

• You are an experienced senior HR leader and business partner, ready to take full accountability and drive change.
• You are recognised as a change agent, with a proven track record of introducing new ways of working.
• You have strong knowledge of Belgian Labour and Employment Law and proven experience building positive labour relations and constructive relationships with Works Councils.
• You inspire and develop teams, and you deliver results through matrixed organisations.
• You stand out for your interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, combined with cultural sensitivity.
• You are a trusted advisor to leaders, translating business challenges into effective people solutions.
• You build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and influence decisions using data, facts and compelling presentations.
• You are motivated to represent the site and actively contribute to a broader, international HR community.
• You develop and lead HR and D&I initiatives, aligning people practices with business objectives.
• You bring strong business acumen and commercial awareness, with strategic thinking, analytical/problem‑solving skills, sound judgement and timely…