Hugo van Rooij

Senior HR Manager

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Languages

EnglishFrench

About me

Intro

HR Manager with 9+ years scaling companies from 5 to 160+ employees across 4 entities. Built HR departments from scratch, managed 200+ recruitments, and implemented full people operations including ATS, payroll systems, and compliance. Specialized in startup-to-scaleup HR transformation and talent acquisition for tech companies.

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Work experience

Freelance HR & TAM

FreelanceFreelance

Feb 2024 - Present

2 years 9 months

France · Hybrid

Skills: Ressources humaines (RH)

TESSANFreelance

Apr 2019 - Jul 2024

5 years 4 months

RPO

Mar 2024 - Jul 2024

5 months

Skills: Ressources humaines (RH)

HR Manager

Sep 2019 - Mar 2024

4 years 7 months

Région de Paris, France

HR Manager of 4 companies (Tessan, Insiderz, Hygie & Tessan UK), + 160 employees and 2 collective agreements, reporting directly to the GM, member of the CODIR. Manage a team of 3 Build the HR department from scratch. Recruitment : * Manage the full recruitment cycle from sourcing to salary negotiation ; * Work with Hiring Managers to translate business needs into a concrete hiring strategy (kick-off meetings...) ; * Implementation of a ATS ; * Training recruitment for hiring manager ; * Improvement of the employer branding. People Operations : * In charge of onboarding & offboarding : Design & manage * Creation of a welcome pack (goodies, Employees handbook) * Legal compliance (CSE, medical visit, create all the legal documents) * Manage payroll for 4 entities and 160 employees : Implementation of Payfit for France * Create and supervising the performance and annual reviews * Litigation management with our lawyer * Supporting manager on the day to day management * Lead employees engagement (events, social barometer) Achievement : * Went to 5 to +160 employees * HR management of 1 to 4 companies * +200 recruitments * From early stage startup to scaleup

Freelance Talent Acquisition Manager

Apr 2019 - Oct 2019

7 months

Région de Paris, France

Skills: Ressources humaines (RH)

HR Manager

Insiderz NFT

Feb 2022 - Mar 2024

2 years 2 months

Paris et périphérie

Skills: Ressources humaines (RH)

HR Manager

AJAN

Sep 2021 - Mar 2024

2 years 7 months

Paris et périphérie

Skills: Ressources humaines (RH)

Freelance Recruteur de Coach Agile

Renault Digital

Apr 2019 - Aug 2019

5 months

Région de Paris, France

Head hunting Agile coach with a specialization at scale

Talent Acquisition Manager

Zengularity // FABERNOVEL TECHNOLOGIES

May 2018 - May 2019

1 year 1 month

Paris, France

* Owning full recruitment cycle. Work hand in hand with hiring Managers to translate business needs into a concrete hiring strategy * Find and manage recruitment agency Project management : * Participation in tech fairs - Stand creation, prez talk. * Sourcing new ATS Achievements: * Recruitment of various profile : sales, developers, architects * Implementation of Recruitee * 2 tech exhibitions & 1 recruitment exhibition

Digital Talent Acquisition

Anson McCade

Nov 2015 - May 2018

2 years 7 months

London, UK

Business Development : * Hunting new clients through cold call and social medias - Software vendors, Pure Players, Startups * Account Manager for existing clients * Contract negotiation with CDO, HR Manager or CEO Candidate Sourcing : * Headhunting candidates mainly through Social media but also on job boards and ads * Conducted Phone interview and follow candidate during all the process with clients * Salary negotiation Internal : * Training and mentoring new employees Achievements : * Recruitment on various positions for different clients: * Sales and Pre-sales for SAP (France, UK and Spain): Hybris, SuccessFactors, S/4 Hana * Technical Architect for BCG-Platinion * UX/UI Designer, Developer, Data Engineer/Scientist for Renault Digital * Developer and Product Owner for John Paul (AccorHotel's company) * Embedded Developer and Project Manager for Witekio * Developer, Big Data Project Manager, Scrum Master, Architects for Hardis Group * Data Scientist for Figaro Group

Recruitment Consultant

Intuition IT Solutions Ltd.

Mar 2015 - Oct 2015

8 months

London, UK

Specialised in IT technology such as SAP and Digital throughout European markets Dual desk placing into the French market Sourced the most suitable candidates based in France utilising an internal database, job boards, referrals and Head Hunting Prospecting for new business Achievements : Promoted into a full 360 recruitment consultant position after 3 months As a resourcer, delivered 3 candidates that resulted in fees of €32,000 Completed 2 full 360 deals with resulted in fees of €30,000


Education

Université Paris 13

Bachelor’s degree

1900 - Present

126 years 10 months

OMNES Education

Master's degree - M1

1900 - Present

126 years 10 months

OMNES Education

Master's degree - M2

1900 - Present

126 years 10 months

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