Senior Global People Partner

OUR PURPOSE AT PLANCRAFT

Building the backbone of European trades – together, with modern software and smart AI solutions.

We don’t just develop software – we’re on a mission to give tradespeople and contractors more room to focus on what matters. We do this by providing a practical SaaS solution that works the way they do: fast, efficient, and without unnecessary administrative overhead. Supported by smart AI features exactly where they make a real difference in everyday work.

Backed by Tier 1 investors from Europe and the US such as Headline and Creandum, and with more than 30,000 craftspeople as our customer base, we are scaling across Europe to turn individual, scattered businesses into connected and successful communities.

We believe in zero admin, not zero personality – and we build every feature with the people wearing safety boots in mind, not suits. We’re excited to shape the future together as a team, staying grounded in our mission to empower the builders and makers of tomorrow.

YOUR MISSION AT PLANCRAFT

As a Senior Global People Partner, you are the strategic operator building and scaling plancraft’s international People Operations & Partnering setup. You enable compliant, smart, and scalable people practices that allow us to grow with consistency and operational excellence across our international locations.

With plancraft currently operating across multiple European countries and employing around 15 internationally-based employees today across the Netherlands, Spain, France, Austria, Italy and Poland — expected to grow to :30 by the end of the year — this role is pivotal in building the foundations, governance structures, and operational routines that enable sustainable, compliant international growth while maintaining a strong employee experience.

You own the full international People Ops & Partnering agenda across all non-Germany locations. This means combining strategy, systems building, operational ownership, and stakeholder partnering in one role: shaping how we approach international People Ops as we scale, building the frameworks and standards that make it work, running the day-to-day international lifecycle reliably, and acting as a trusted sparring partner to local country leads and managers.

Today, we are still running international operations via EOR across all countries. From Q4 onwards, we plan to gradually move into local entity setups, and this role will be central in owning and driving that transition from the P&O side — both strategically and operationally.

You will work closely with key counterparts across the company — especially with:

• our Senior People Partner for Germany as your counterpart for close sparring and alignment across one coherent People Ops & Partnering model
• our Senior Global Talent Acquisition Manager, who is focused on international hiring and will be your key partner on hiring-to-onboarding interfaces
• and stakeholders across Finance, Legal, Expansion, and local country leads for preparing entity transitions and supporting the day-to-day.

This is a role with high autonomy, strong strategic impact, and broad visibility across one of plancraft’s most important strategic focus areas.

Your Responsibilities

Strategic Build of the International Setup

• Drive strategy and execution of EOR-to-entity transition workstreams, including planning, stakeholder coordination, employee communication, documentation, provider management, and operational rollout readiness.
• Build and continuously improve international people policies, workflows, playbooks, and operational standards with clear “global vs. local” principles and scalable compliance logic.
• Shape and operationalize scalable approaches for international total rewards & working guidelines with consideration for fairness, local market realities, and organizational consistency.

Systems, Standards & Scalable Operations

• Translate recurring operational challenges and stakeholder friction into improved systems, documentation, workflows, and scalable operational processes.
• Establish operational excellence through clear ownership structures, lifecycle standards, transparent tracking, and reliable execution across all international people processes.
• Explore practical, AI-enabled workflows and automation opportunities to reduce manual workload and increase operational scalabili