An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR leader to take responsibility for a large multi-country HR operation spanning the UK, Ireland and the Nordic region. Reporting into European HR leadership, you will drive HR excellence, lead a team of HR professionals and influence business strategy across a complex international landscape. It is essential you have HR Lead experience in the Nordics
Client Details
Our client is a large international organisation with a well-established European presence and a modern HR operating model. The business combines shared services, specialist centres of excellence and market-leading technology to deliver a high-quality employee experience, creating a commercially focused environment where HR plays a strategic role in organisational success
Description
- Lead, coach and develop a team of HR professionals across multiple countries.
- Act as the senior HR lead for the region, providing strategic guidance to business leaders.
- Drive consistent, high-quality HR service delivery across six countries.
- Partner with shared services, centres of excellence and other HR functions to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
- Manage complex employee relations matters, organisational change initiatives and leadership challenges.
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Identify, assess and mitigate people-related risks.
- Oversee compensation activities and workforce cost management in partnership with reward teams.
- Support organisational design, restructuring, transformation and integration programmes.
- Promote the effective use of HR technology and data-driven decision-making.
Profile
- Significant HR leadership experience within a complex, international environment.
- Strong knowledge of employment practices across the UK, Ireland and the Nordic region.
- Proven experience leading multi-country teams and developing HR talent.
- Background operating within a shared services HR model.
- Experience using enterprise HR systems such as Workday, ServiceNow or similar platforms.
- Strong employee relations expertise with the confidence to challenge and influence senior stakeholders.
- Commercial mindset with the ability to balance business needs, compliance and employee experience.
- Experience managing reward processes, budgets and workforce planning activities.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build credibility across a matrix organisation.
- CIPD qualification or equivalent would be advantageous.
Job Offer
- Regional responsibility across the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland
- Home based role with regular, weekly travel
- Salary of c£90,000 plus benefits
- Leadership responsibility for a multi-country HR team
- Exposure to approximately 1,200 employees across the region
- Opportunity to operate as the senior HR voice within a major European cluster
- Significant visibility with senior leadership and European HR stakeholders
- Broad HR remit covering employee relations, compliance, reward, organisational design and transformation
- Opportunity to shape and enhance HR delivery across a large international operation
- Exposure to complex employment environments
- Opportunity to lead strategic change and continuous improvement initiatives within a sophisticated HR function
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HR Operations Lead (Nordics) employer: Michael Page HR
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