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The job

Helping International Companies Build and Support Their Global Workforce
Are you someone who enjoys solving complex HR challenges and helping organizations navigate international growth? Do you combine a broad HR background with strong stakeholder management and a genuine curiosity to keep learning?
At Parakar, we help companies employ people across Europe. Whether they're expanding into new countries, scaling rapidly, or building remote teams, we provide practical HR solutions that make international employment simple.
As an International HR Business Consultant, you'll become the trusted HR partner for your own portfolio of international clients. You'll advise them on a wide variety of HR topics, deliver consultancy projects, and occasionally work as an interim HR professional within their organization. No two days are the same, and that's exactly what makes this role exciting.

Are you excited to work in an international and dynamic work environment?
This role goes far beyond traditional HR operations. You'll work with innovative companies across industries such as technology, fintech, life sciences, and professional services. Some clients need strategic HR advice, others need temporary HR capacity, while others are looking for guidance on international employment, performance management, organizational development or employee experience.
You don't need to know every country's employment legislation by heart as we have local HR specialists for that. Instead, you're someone who understands the bigger HR picture, knows how to ask the right questions, brings the right experts together, and translates complex information into practical advice that clients can immediately use.
You'll collaborate closely with our country specialists, payroll consultants, legal experts and client teams to ensure every client receives outstanding support throughout their journey.

What You'll Do
As an International HR Business Consultant, you'll combine consultancy, project management and relationship management to deliver high-quality HR solutions across Europe.

Your responsibilities include:

• Delivering high-quality HR consultancy and interim support to international clients across multiple European countries.
• Managing client requests from initial intake through successful delivery, ensuring excellent client experience throughout.
• Advising clients on a broad range of international HR topics and translating complex HR challenges into practical solutions.
• Building trusted client relationships by acting as their strategic HR partner and first point of contact.
• Working closely with Parakar's country specialists to gather local expertise and translate it into clear, business-focused advice.
• Managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously while maintaining high quality and strong communication.
• Using HR insights and data to support clients in making informed people decisions.
• Identifying opportunities to improve our services, client experience and internal ways of working.
• Taking ownership of complex client challenges and driving them through to successful resolution.
• Continuously developing your HR expertise and staying curious about new developments in international HR.

This is your job if

This Is Your Job If...
You enjoy working in an environment where every client is different and no standard solution exists. You thrive when combining HR knowledge with consultancy, project management and stakeholder management.

You recognize yourself in the following:

• You are located in one of the countries where Parakar is located.
• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree related to HR, or equivalent working and thinking level.
• You bring 3–5 years of experience in HR Consulting, HR Business Partnering, People Operations, HR Project Management or a similar HR role, preferably in a fast-paced start-up, scale-up or high-growth environment.
• You have experience supporting international teams, remote workforces or multiple countries, and are based somewhere in Europe in one of the countries where Parakar operates.
• You understand the fundamentals of employment law and know when to involve specialists to provide the best solution.
• You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, solving complex HR challenges and continuously expanding your HR knowledge.
• You are proactive, customer-focused and take ownership of your work; you are fluent in English, both spoken and written, and additional European languages are a plus.

Why Parakar?
At Parakar, you'll join an ambitious international team, work with companies from around the world, and collaborate with specialists across Europe. With ownership, entrepreneurship and personal development at our core, you'll have the freedom to make an impact while growing your HR expertise.
If you want to combine consultancy, international HR and client partnership in a dynamic environment, you'll feel right at home at Parakar.

Our offer

• A starting annual salary between €33k and €55k, depending on experience and location;
• A stimulating environment focused on personal development and growth, including an annual personal development budget of €1,000;
• 31 vacation days;
• A bonus scheme allowing you to earn up to 10% of your annual salary in addition to your base salary.

Yes, give me the job!

Do you want to help international companies build great workplaces across Europe while accelerating your own HR career? Send us your CV and motivation letter. We look forward to hearing your story.

About us

Parakar is a dynamic, sparkling and progressive club! With a team of 60 HR specialists, we provide a range of global outsourced HR and payroll management services. What kind of services are those? Think outsourced human resource management, HR consulting and management, payroll, immigration and everything that comes with it. At Parakar, we deliver effective solutions time and again by interweaving local expertise with international experience.

Parakar's head quarter is located in Breda, the Netherlands, and we also have several offices across Europe. We believe in a future of work, where organizations and professionals of all generations should always be able to work together, regardless of when, how and where. To make this possible, we are looking for driven professionals who want to take up this challenge with us.

At Parakar, you are central, because we believe that without satisfied people, there are no satisfied customers. This means that we like to invest in your development, understand that flexibility is a must and that all that hard work should be compensated with a lot of fun and a good salary. So, if you think you have the Parakar DNA, we would love to talk to you!