HR Operations Manager – Belgium

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

About Us

At Baxter, we're building agile, employee-centered HR that powers our mission. We're hiring a hands-on, curious and self-driven HR Operations Manager to lead payroll and admin for all Belgian entities.

This is a key role at the heart of our business: ensuring every employee is paid accurately, on time, and in full compliance—while driving smarter processes every day.

Role Overview

Own the full payroll and HR admin scope for Belgium. Lead a dedicated team, coach them to grow, and build a robust, modern local HR Operations model.

We're looking for someone who rolls up their sleeves, dives into details, challenges the status quo, and pushes improvements with confidence and curiosity.

You'll also contribute to constructive social dialogue with unions, representing HR Operations professionally.

What You Will Do

• Lead and coach an HR Ops team focused on accountability, learning, and excellence.

• Run end-to-end payroll: accuracy, compliance, timeliness across Belgian sites.

• Implement localized comp & benefits with global and local partners.

• Optimize HRIS/payroll tools, automate, and cut manual work.

• Ensure compliance, reporting, data security, and stay ahead of regulatory changes—tracking social/tax updates to keep us fully compliant.

• Drive system efficiency and digital improvements.

• Be the go-to expert for employee questions—with empathy, clear guidance and expertise.

• Lead constructive interactions with unions and representatives

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Accounting or related field (certifications a plus).

• 8+ years of payroll experience (3+ years in leading teams), ideally multinational.

• Deep Belgian payroll, tax, and labor law expertise.

• Hands‑on problem-solver, curious, and proactive mindset who thrives on process improvements.

• Team development experience; comfortable with unions/social relations.

• Analytical, detail-oriented, data-confident with HRIS tools.

• Clear communicator who builds trust at all levels.

Why This Role Will Inspire You

• Shape HR Ops for Belgium's sites.

• Lead in a culture of continuous improvement.

• Be the expert who impacts every employee daily.

• Foster professional dialogue with unions relations in a transparent environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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