HR Coordinator, 1000 Brussels

Build on your HR expertise and have impact from day one with a wide range of responsibilities

Join Bird & Bird Brussels and play a key role in shaping the employee experience in a leading international law firm

• Dynamic, innovative, and internationally renowned law firm advising clients across sectors including technology, communications, life sciences, financial services, automotive and energy.
• Established reputation for delivering exceptional service and exceeding client expectations, Bird & Bird is known for helping clients navigate change and seize opportunity.
• International presence with 34 offices across Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and North America.
• Enjoy a friendly and inclusive work environment based on respect and understanding.
• Comprehensive onboarding to help you settle at your own pace.
• Realize your career aspirations within this multicultural team, 85 professionals, 10 different nationalities.
• Modern and attractive offices (presently being refurbished), conveniently accessible by public transport.

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Function

Are you a HR professional looking for a varied role where no 2 days are the same?

This role is ideal for a HR professional who wants to move beyond administration and progressively develop expertise across recruitment, talent management, employee engagement, performance management and HR projects, meaning you will interact daily with Partners, Associates, Trainees, and Business Services Teams and hence gain exposure to the people dynamics of a leading international legal firm.

Your Responsibilities

Seamless Employee Experience

You take ownership for every step of the onboarding and offboarding process by:

• Drafting employment contracts.
• Preparing induction programmes.
• Managing registrations with benefit providers.
• Ensuring all administrative procedures are completed correctly when employees join or leave the firm.
• Discretion is key.

Smooth HR Operations

You will manage personnel administration from A to Z:

• Payroll administration for a team of 25.
• Maintaining accurate employee records plus the HR database.
• Preparing HR reports.

Attracting Tomorrow's Talent

You’ll support recruitment activities by:

• Drafting and publishing attractive job advertisements.
• Coordinating interviews.
• Ensure optimal and timely candidate communication and application follow-up.

Following your onboarding period, you will also conduct first-round interviews for selected Business Services vacancies and help identify candidates who will thrive within Bird & Bird's collaborative culture.

Contribute to Bird & Bird’s Talent Engagement and Retention

Working closely with the HR Manager, you’ll contribute to a wide variety of strategic HR initiatives and projects that support Bird & Bird’s HR priorities of Wellbeing, Employee Engagement, Diversity and Inclusion, Performance and Development and Continuous Learning.

Profile

First and foremost you enjoy helping people as well as exposure to the full employee lifecycle.

You also have:

• 1 year minimum of experience in payroll administration and an understanding of Belgian employment legislation.
• Excellent English (written and spoken)with Good Dutch and French (both written and spoken).
• Strong IT skills, particularly in Excel, and enjoy learning new systems and technologies.

You’ll really thrive in this role if you are

• Highly organised and accurate, always able to adapt to changing priorities.
• Solution-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Able to build strong working relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• A positive, approachable and service-minded attitude.

Offer

• The opportunity to build your HR career within a leading international law firm.
• Impactful work, playing a key role in shaping the employee experience.
• Career Development, be exposed to diverse HR topics and work closely with expert HR professionals.
• Inclusive Culture, join a multicultural, collaborative and suppo