At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Available Locations: Amsterdam or Remote Netherlands
What You Will Do Here:
The People team at Cloudflare is growing. We want to find the best people to join our team and then help them to do their best work. As we continue to build our Business Partner team, we are looking for a People Team and Works Council Advisor who is naturally curious about what we do and driven to help our people thrive. In this role, you will report to the People Team Business Partner, partnering with our EMEA Business Partner team. Geographically, you will focus mainly on supporting our team based in the Netherlands. You will be working closely with the team and key stakeholders across Cloudflare through activities including those listed below:
Lay foundations for cooperation and partner with leadership and the newly founded Works Council in the Netherlands to develop and maintain trusted and productive relationships.
Manage the running of the Works Council including planning and organising the Works Council meetings and trainings, monitoring the latest labour law legislation, preparing summary of findings and recommendations.
Act as interface to the Works Council, lead discussions with the Works Council members and prepare various presentations, documentation and data required for the running of the meetings.
Proactively discuss with People Team Business Partners the best way and approach to address a wide range of complex and sensitive employee relations issues, helping to resolve conflicts, coach and support leaders on managing performance of their teams, deliver constructive feedback, etc.
Partnering with Business Partner Team and Legal regarding sensitive employee exits, including managing settlement negotiations.
Monitor, review and update existing People policies and processes, partnering with Business Partner Team, Legal and Centers of Expertise to ensure policies are in line with Cloudflare global principles, market best practices and applicable regulations.
Deliver world-class employee support, creating a seamless and positive experience across the entire hire to retire lifecycle. When needed, be prepared to coordinate global employee lifecycle transactions, such as onboarding, transfers, organisational changes, offboarding etc.
We passionately believe in leadership at all levels, and our fast growth has created a special opportunity to really stretch our team members to acquire new skills and grow on the job. On our Business Partner team we strongly believe that much of the work is dictated by you identifying opportunities for programs and projects beyond your day-to-day role. This is absolutely the case
for this role - you will have the opportunity to build your consultative and business partnering skills, if you decide to pursue that path. You will spend time with our people to help improve current programs and implement new policies and systems that are responsive to their needs, echo our values and will scale as we continue to grow globally.
Who You Are:
Motivated by cultivating company culture, building great businesses and helping people do their best work. With your HR or Employment Legal background, you have gained at least 5 years of experience dealing with policies, programs, ER cases and labour relations. You bring a proven track record of experience working in the Netherlands and partnering successfully with Works Councils. Others have described you as a skilled generalist. You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are always looking for ways to innovate. You are motivated by making things easier and clearer for people to do their best work - your greatest sense of accomplishment is in watching others thrive. You have a demonstrated history of building relationships and credibility across all levels of an organisation. You operate independently and you come forward with solutions to problems. You love to work in a multicultural and diverse environment and believe inclusion is one of the key values to thrive. You are generous with your time with all of our people and earn and maintain their trust. Your priority in this role will be to make it easy for all our employees to do their best work.
You have a deep curiosity about our business and want to learn, stretch and grow. Uncompromising when it comes to your integrity, you speak truth, act with respect and lead with empathy. You are a skillful communicator, both in your verbal communications in small and large groups, and in your written communications internally and externally. Yet your favourite way to communicate, especially when the message may be difficult to receive, is face-to-face (even virtually). You love working with people - you maybe secretly love working with spreadsheets too. You have strong time management skills, showing ability and willingness to work within constantly changing priorities linked to a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
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