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VALPEO

Leadership, culture, and organization advisory

Head of People

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
Expert
Germany
In Person
People & HRHR Generalist & Employee Relations

About the job

Requirements
  • Several years of experience in responsible human resources functions.
  • Successful experience as Head of People, HR Manager, HR Business Partner Lead, or in a comparable role.
  • Experience building, professionalizing, or developing HR structures and processes.
  • Strong knowledge of modern HR systems and digital HR solutions.
  • Understanding of organizational development, change management, and cultural transformation.
  • Ability to develop strategic concepts and implement them operationally.
  • Confident interaction with management and leaders.
  • Hands-on approach and motivation to build structures and drive change.
  • Understanding of the challenges of international organizations and ability to work across cultural contexts while establishing shared standards that account for local differences.
  • Business-fluent English.
Responsibilities
  • Build a professional HR function at holding-company level.
  • Develop and implement modern HR structures, processes, and standards.
  • Develop a group-wide HR strategy across multiple international locations.
  • Harmonize HR processes, standards, and leadership principles across different countries.
  • Digitize the entire employee journey and introduce contemporary HR systems.
  • Build data-driven HR management to steer and develop the organization.
  • Establish scalable talent, recruiting, and performance-management processes.
  • Support further international growth through modern people and talent strategies.
  • Develop leadership and organizational structures.
  • Support change and transformation processes within the group.
  • Promote cross-location collaboration and cultural cohesion.
  • Develop a modern, performance-oriented, change-ready corporate culture.
  • Work with the CEO to shape the organizational conditions needed for the company's next stage of development.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in high-growth, transformation-focused, or investor-funded companies.

About the company

VALPEO provides diagnostic tools and advisory services to help leaders align leadership, culture and organizational structure with strategic direction in complex environments. Its Transformative Value Framework and proprietary Dx instruments reveal how value is created across different levels of complexity and what kind of leadership and culture are needed to sustain it. It works with multinationals, family businesses, government bodies and PE-backed firms on integration, transformation and value-creation journeys. The company aims to help organizations understand and enhance their real capacity to think, decide and act under complexity to achieve lasting value.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

City of Brussels, Belgium

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • VALPEO won Best Executive Search Firm in July 2026, strengthening deal credibility.
  • The company’s multi-country footprint supports cross-border mandates without heavy fixed infrastructure.
  • LinkedIn lists 3912 followers and multiple offices, signaling brand reach beyond Belgium.

What critics are saying

  • No funding disclosure suggests a bootstrapped services business with limited growth capital.
  • Eleven to fifty employees creates key-person risk if partners leave in 2026.
  • Big consultancies and search firms can bundle offerings and compress VALPEO pricing quickly.

What makes VALPEO unique

  • VALPEO combines executive search, assessment, coaching, and organization design in one advisory shop.
  • The firm won Best Executive Search Firm at HR Excellence Awards Belgium 2026.
  • Its partner network spans Brussels, Antwerp, London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Nairobi, Paris, and Neuchâtel.

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Benefits

  • Performance Bonus