People & Culture Manager

At Channext, we're on a mission to become the largest channel partner platform in the world. As we scale, we know our people are the key to that success. We’re looking for a People & Culture Manager who can strengthen our team and hiring experience, enable our managers, and help us keep Channext a place where everyone can grow, thrive, and do their best work.

About the job

You’ll own key people initiatives guiding everything from employee life cycle management and performance management to development, total rewards, hiring, and HRIS. In this role, you are the key driver to ensure that we hire great talent, create an environment where personal development and growth flourishes, and people operations run smoothly.

What you’ll do

• Employee Lifecycle Management from structured onboardings to empathetic offboardings

• Set high standards for our hiring and be the key driver of talent acquisition, ensuring culture fit through first screenings and guide managers to drive a strong hiring experience.

• Act as a confidential advisor, and be a neutral party in employee relations and conflict resolution.

• Collaborate with managers to keep people aligned and engaged. 

• Facilitate performance review frameworks, career frameworks, and appraisal cycles.

• Ensure consistent, transparent application of policies across teams.

• Manage contracts, payroll adjustments, leave administration, and legal compliance.

• Strengthen a culture of trust, psychological safety,  open communication and retention

• Oversee learning and development and foster a ‘take the lead in self-development culture.’

Who are you?

You bring contagious energy and a genuine drive to help people succeed. You believe that when passion meets purpose, great things happen for individuals and the company alike. You build real connections, foster open and honest conversations, and see feedback as fuel for progress. You focus on meaningful impact over perfection, leading with clarity, empathy, and intent.

• You have 3+ years of experience in HR, People & Culture, or a similar role in a scaling organization and clear evidence of impact. You’ve been highly involved in the hiring process.

• You’re hands-on and proactive, you spot what’s missing and take ownership to fix or improve it.

• You’re empathetic and approachable, with strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships across all levels of the company

• You work with integrity, and are known as a trusted, neutral presence in conversations big and small.

• You thrive in dynamic environments, balancing compliance, culture, and people needs pragmatically.

• Able to work from our Utrecht office 3 or 4 days/week.

Why join us?
If you're looking for a rewarding next step in your career where you can make an impact, grow professionally, and be part of an extraordinary team and culture than Channext is the place for you.

• Innovative culture: We are at the forefront of innovation, work in a fast moving environment where values genuinely guide how we do our best work together, instead of staying in a slide deck.

• High performance, people first: You join a people first but high performance team, where feedback is direct, expectations are clear and you help teams stay engaged, compliant and aligned.

• Center of action: the go to person for people topics, a trusted sounding board for the team, working side by side with managers, Finance and Legal, Office, and Talent and Culture.

• In the driver’s seat: Your impact will directly shape how people experience working @ Channext

• Competetive salary & benefits: Competitive salary and benefits, 3% pension contribution, 25 vacation days with the option to buy 5 more, work from anywhere 4 weeks per year, annual learning and development budget, and regular team events such as our weekender, ski trip, boat trips and seasonal celebrations.