Hr manager ii

Logistics at full potential

Are you passionate about workforce management and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment?

As our head of workforce management, you’ll take full ownership of leading our workforce management team our full workforce management lifecycle from forecasting, planning to scheduling whilst making GXO’s contingent workforce ‘future ready’ via various projects that you will initiate, drive and roll-out.

If you're someone who brings energy, ownership, and a hands-on mindset to everything you do, you'll feel right at home here. We value innovation, integrity, and a constant drive to raise the bar.

What you do on a typical day

As our head of workforce, you will have full responsibility of our contingent workforce (6000-9000 FTE). You will oversee, lead and direct our BeNe & Nordics workforce-team (35 FTE). Whilst you maintain our partnerships between our external suppliers. Being one team, workforce pool management and making our WFM organization ‘future ready’ is where you thrive. You fit in with our open-door culture and understand the added value of spending time to connect, energize and understand the needs of our colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand strategic business goals and driving your WFM team to tackle short-term peaks, as well as driving mid- and long-term strategic projects via a programmatic approach


• Manage the full lifecycle of our contingent workforce focusing across our BeNe region


• Build strong relationships with our business leaders to maneuver workforce management in a way that is both beneficial for GXO strategic goals, as well as being able to tackle our short-term needs


• You drive various contingent workforce related projects and process improvements implementing planning tools, anticipating on future contingent workforce changes in law/legislation and auditing supplier housing)


• Deliver valuable insights via a variety of dashboards and reports on on/offboarding, headcount, spend, tenure, and supplier performance

What you need to succeed at GXO

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree with at least 7 year of relevant contingent workforce management experience at either supplier and/or corporate environment


• Experience managing a significant workforce with proven expertise in the full workforce lifecycle (forecasting, planning, scheduling)


• A strong analytics and data driven mindset to compliment your strategic way of thinking


• Excellent communicational and interpersonal skills (verbal and written in English)


• With your proven leadership, you motivate teams in our ever changing, complex and very dynamic organization

What we offer you

• Competitive salary, Company Car and Bonus Scheme


• A challenging and very dynamic job with plenty of opportunity to shape GXO workforce management teams to GXO needs


• Make (strategic) impact! We offer a role where your work directly impacts operational efficiency, cost reduction and customer satisfaction

Your work environment

Working at GXO Logistics means working in a dynamic and international organization. A fascinating environment with plenty of room for personal input and development. Employees at GXO Logistics oversee their own success. Whatever your position at GXO Logistics, you will face new challenges every day, which will enable you to develop optimally. We support you in your development, so that you can contribute to the entrepreneurship of our organization.

GXO Logistics offers advanced supply chain solutions for the world's most successful companies in many industries, like e-commerce, food & retail and industrial multinationals. In the BeNe region (The Netherlands and Belgium) GXO BeNe operates from +30 different locations with its headquarters in Eindhoven (NL).