Interim Talent Partner – Performance Management

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About the Role

Vanderlande is at a pivotal moment in its journey toward building a stronger High-Performance Culture. The organization is transforming the way performance is managed—from fragmented annual reviews to a continuous, business-driven approach where performance, development, and rewards are clearly connected and embedded in everyday work.

The new Performance & Rewards framework has been designed. The next phase is implementation.

As Interim Talent Partner – Performance Management, you will play a critical role in translating the global design into operational reality. This is not a conceptual design position; it is an implementation-focused role requiring strong execution, project management, stakeholder engagement, and change leadership capabilities.

You will work closely with HR, HR Technology, Reward, Change Management, and business stakeholders to ensure the new approach is fully operational, technically enabled, globally consistent, locally compliant, and successfully adopted across the organization by April 2027.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate Strategy into Operational Practice
• Ensure clarity and usability for managers, employees, and HR teams.
• Drive End-to-End Implementation
• Lead implementation readiness activities across the organization.
• Manage Governance and Compliance
• Lead Change and Adoption
• Stakeholder Management
• Program Delivery

Over het bedrijf

Vanderlande is a global market leader in logistics automation, providing innovative solutions for airports, warehousing, and parcel handling operations. Founded in 1949 and headquartered in Veghel, the Netherlands, the company designs, delivers, and maintains automated systems that help customers improve efficiency, reliability, and performance. As part of Toyota Industries Corporation, Vanderlande employs more than 9,000 people worldwide and serves many of the world's leading airports, parcel operators, and distribution organizations.

Wat breng jij

Candidate Profile

Education & Experience

• Significant experience in global HR transformation, HR change, or people transformation programs.
• Strong expertise in Performance Management, preferably with hands-on implementation experience.
• Proven track record of translating HR concepts, policies, and frameworks into operational practice.
• Demonstrated experience delivering global implementations in complex, international organizations.
• Experience working with employee representative bodies and Works Councils is highly desirable.
• Experience within technology, engineering, industrial, or similarly complex business environments is preferred.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of Performance Management frameworks, processes, and best practices.
• Ability to translate strategic design into practical, executable solutions.
• Excellent project and implementation management capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of HR processes, HR systems, policy deployment, and organizational change.
• Ability to balance global harmonization with local requirements and compliance obligations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent in English.

Personal Attributes

• Hands-on, pragmatic, and execution-focused.
• Independent and proactive, with the ability to drive progress with minimal supervision.
• Structured and results-oriented.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and organizational complexity.
• Strong collaborator and team player.
• Resilient and able to maintain momentum in a fast-paced transformation environment.
• Credible and confident when engaging senior stakeholders.