HR Business Director

You're at the beginning of a brand-new business unit. Where more than 125 years of experience forms the foundation for groundbreaking plant-based solutions. At Cosun Ingredients, we're not just building products, we're building the future.

Are you the visionary HR leader who will shape this?

Your impact as HR Business Director

You've proven you can deliver. Led transformations where others hesitated. Guided M&A trajectories with strategic acumen and human touch. But the next step? That role where you're not advising the top, but part of it? Where your voice in the Management Team carries the same weight as operations, finance, or commercial? That role exists. As HR Business Director, you're the architect of a new business unit and full Management Team member at Cosun Ingredients. Here, HR is business critical.

You translate the Unlock 30 strategy directly into execution. You build a culture where agile, innovative, and inclusive excellence is the norm. As talent architect, you don't work with what exists – you build what's needed. You speak the language C-level understands: workforce analytics that wake up boardrooms, hard ROI on talent investments, data-driven workforce planning. You've seen how integrations fail and succeed. You digitalize because it delivers business value: processes that free up time, systems that provide insight, platforms that develop talent. But this role demands more than vision alone. You roll up your sleeves to clean up existing routines, integrate fragmented processes, and raise standards where needed. You're strategic, yet hands-on and equally comfortable shaping boardroom strategy as you are driving operational excellence on the ground.

You're the trusted advisor who gets called when it matters. That strategic acquisition? You're at the table from day one as a business partner. That MT impasse? You clarify what's happening and what's needed. You've earned this trust by consistently delivering. This is your canvas: a new business unit, a strategic MT position where HR carries business weight, freedom to build without legacy constraints, and the impact to fundamentally transform. If you recognize this – then you're the one we're looking for.

What you bring:

• Master's degree or equivalent
• 10-15 years broad HR experience, including 6-10 years in senior leadership
• Proven success in HR strategy, transformation, and organizational design
• Expertise in strategic HR planning, organizational development, HR analytics, talent management, DEI, digital HR transformation, and M&A
• High level of professionalism and low ego
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and influencing skills.

Why Cosun?

Royal Cosun is an international, leading agricultural cooperative that has been in existence for 125 years and is owned by approximately 8,100 sugar beet growers. Our purpose is clear: we aim to contribute to an enjoyable, nutritional and circular world by unlocking the full potential of plants and people for current and next generations. This purpose is rooted in 125 years of Cosun history in successfully valorizing arable crops, such as sugar beets, chicory and potatoes, and co-products into a diverse portfolio of value-added products.

What you get:

• Competitive salary, excellent pension plan, bonus, and company car.
• Key role in the Management Team of a new, growing business unit
• Space and trust to make your vision reality
• Meaningful mission where sustainability and innovation are central
• Real impact on organization, people, and planet

Waarom werken bij Cosun?

• Innovatieve en lerende omgeving
• Verbinding en samenwerking
• Voedsel- en duurzaamheidsimpact
• Ontwikkeling en verantwoordelijkheid
• Cultuur en vertrouwen
• Coöperatiegroei en verbetering
• Dynamisch & veelzijdig speelveld
• Werkplezier en veiligheid
• Werkplezier en teamprestaties