Negotiator, City Administration Office HR Staff

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More than 13,000 employees and approximately 450 occupational roles – that's a wonderfully challenging breadth. Do you want to work on shaping stable and attractive labor law solutions in a large and complex organization? Are you also someone who builds respectful and well-functioning collaboration relationships with clear anchoring in roles and responsibilities – then this could be the right position for you! The City Administration Office's HR department is the municipality's strategic and operational function for overarching employer issues. We are responsible for ensuring that personnel policy is known and uniformly applied throughout the organization. Our department leads, coordinates, and follows up on work with competence supply, leadership development, work environment, health, labor law, and wage formation, as well as payroll and pension administration. In total, we are approximately 90 employees who together provide support to the political leadership and the municipality's departments. The work is conducted in close collaboration with operations and trade union organizations. We are now looking for two sharp negotiators for our team within negotiation and labor law! Employment Information For one of the positions, we are looking for someone with a particular interest in wage formation. Our most senior negotiator in this area has a couple of years left before it's time to pass the baton. We therefore want to ensure strong, long-term, and sustainable knowledge transfer. For the other position, which is an expansion of our team, we are looking for someone who wants to work broadly within the entire area of negotiation and labor law. Both positions are permanent, full-time employment. Our workplace is located at City Hall in Umeå. Start date by agreement. In the application form, you will have the opportunity to indicate which of the positions you are interested in. Your Tasks As a negotiator with us, you work both strategically and operatively with, among other things, developing agreement and negotiation work, driving development processes at a strategic level, and consulting colleagues on individual personnel matters. An important part of the assignment is to build and maintain collaborative relationships with colleagues and trade union organizations. You contribute to a good collaboration climate and are an appreciated colleague who strengthens colleagues' competence in labor law and employer matters. The assignment includes being involved in all of the team's responsibility and focus areas. This includes, among other things: Provide qualified advice on labor law and agreement matters. Conduct interest and dispute negotiations. On behalf of the Municipal Executive Board and Personnel Committee, conduct investigations and, where applicable, assist as an adjunct expert competence in complex investigations. Contribute to the development of work methods together with the departments' HR functions. As a negotiator, an important part is to educate, develop skills, and consult colleagues, as well as work with targeted communication. A strategic assignment is to develop processes, procedures, and system support that make it easy to understand and work with our processes. As a negotiator with a focus on wage formation, in addition to the above tasks, you have a responsibility to drive, develop, and manage Umeå Municipality's wage formation and wage policy. Together with colleagues and management, you are responsible for conducting strategic analyses of the current situation and desired changes to create a factual and appropriate wage structure that supports the organization's long-term competence supply. The role involves planning and implementing activities within the wage formation area with a high degree of independence and responsibility. Important activities include leading and coordinating work on Umeå Municipality's annual salary review, job evaluation, salary mapping, and position management. Together with your closest colleagues, you are responsible for conducting analyses and forecasts and developing proposals for salary increase allowances and long-term salary initiatives. Another important part of your work is to coordinate and support wage formation work between departments to ensure a common wage policy. You will together with your closest colleagues lead and support party work within the wage formation area. About You We are looking for someone who has: Relevant higher education in HR or other education that the employer deems equivalent. Experience with trade union party work and negotiation. Experience/ability to interpret, apply, and draft collective agreements. Experience in providing qualified labor law advice and making recommendations in complex matters. Experience leading and coordinating major, organization-wide processes. Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written. If you are applying for the wage formation role, you also have: Experience with wage formation work in a larger organization. Experience with analysis work, both internal and external data. Knowledge of job evaluation and salary mapping. Experience and are a skilled user of Excel. It is desirable for these positions if you have advanced education in labor law as well as experience from the public sector and work in a politically governed organization. As a person, you are confident and stable and work with a consultative and strategic approach based on both trust and long-term collaboration. Your attentiveness and thoroughness contribute to your ability to make well-founded decisions based on current circumstances and a holistic perspective. You are quality-conscious and take responsibility for independently driving processes. You have good pedagogical and communication skills. With commitment and integrity, you are a valued support for the organization and contribute to Umeå Municipality remaining an attractive and responsible employer. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the advertisement period, so we warmly welcome your application today!More than 13,000 employees and approximately 450 occupational roles – that's a wonderfully challenging breadth. Do you want to work on shaping stable and attractive labor law solutions in a large and complex organization? Are you also someone who builds respectful and well-functioning collaboration relationships with clear anchoring in roles and responsibilities – then this could be the right position for you! The City Administration Office's HR department is the municipality's strategic and operational function for overarching employer issues. We are responsible for ensuring that personnel…

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Umeå

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Skolgatan 31 A

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Published

22. 7. 2026

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30. 7. 2026

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