Senior HR Business Partner

Spectricity was incorporated in 2018 as a spin-off from imec, a leading R&D center in nanoelectronics and digital technologies in Belgium. Since then, we have been developing low-cost, miniaturized multispectral sensing solutions with the mission to bring this technology into high-volume consumer and industrial devices. Our applications extend across wearables, smartphones, security, automotive, biomedical health, smart gardening, food analysis, color sensing, and smart object recognition.

We are an international team of technologists, engineers, and application experts who work together every day to build innovative solutions. Our culture is open, supportive, and strongly focused on collaboration. We believe in ownership, a hands-on mindset, and giving people the space to grow.

Our headquarters are located in Mechelen, Belgium, and we also have an office in Shanghai, China. As a fast-growing scale-up, we combine strong technological foundations with the dynamic environment of a company that is innovating and expanding globally.

Do you enjoy building strong people strategies that enable business growth?
Are you passionate about partnering with leaders to develop high-performing teams and an engaging company culture?
Do you want to help shape the future of a fast-growing deep-tech scale-up?

Spectricity looking for a Senior HR Business Partner who will build and lead our HR function while ensuring our people strategy supports our ambitious business objectives.

Your main responsibilities:

As our HR Business Partner, you are the trusted advisor for both managers and employees, ensuring that our people strategy supports our business objectives. You combine strategic HR thinking with a hands-on approach and take ownership of the full HR agenda, from operational excellence to organizational development.

You play a key role in attracting, developing, and retaining talent while building scalable HR processes that enable the continued growth of Spectricity. Working closely with the General Manager and the leadership team, you provide expert HR advice, drive organizational improvements, and help create a high-performing and engaging work environment.

In this role, you report directly to the General Manager and work closely with managers across the organization, as well as with external payroll providers and international HR partners.

• Act as the trusted HR Business Partner and primary HR contact for managers and employees.
• Manage the full employee lifecycle, including workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, performance management, talent development, retention, and offboarding.
• Partner with managers on organizational design, workforce planning, employee relations, and change management to support business growth.
• Drive employee engagement and foster a high-performing and inclusive company culture.
• Ensure compliance with Belgian employment legislation and maintain HR policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Manage the compensation and benefits framework, including payroll coordination with external providers and HR administration for Belgian and international employees.
• Lead HR projects and continuously improve HR processes, systems, and policies.

Your profile, skills, and talents:

We are looking for someone who brings the right competencies:

• Strong business partnering and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent coaching, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinker with the pragmatic, hands-on mindset.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate HR data into practical business insights.
• Proactive, self-driven, and solution-oriented.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• High level of integrity, discretion, and professionalism when handling confidential information.
• Adaptable and resilient, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment.

Experience & Knowledge

• Master’s degree or equivalent through experience, with demonstrated Master’s level thinking and working ability.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a broad HR role.
• You have built a solid foundation as a Payroll Manager, Payroll Specialist, or HR Generalist with payroll responsibility and are ready to take the next step into a broader HR Business Partner role.
• Proven experience managing the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, talent development, and offboarding.
• Experience advising and coaching managers on employee relations, organizational development, and change management.
• Solid knowledge of Belgi