HR and Communications, Management Office
Västervik Municipality seeks HR Manager
Do you want to contribute to quality of life every day within the Västervik Municipality group?
Västervik Municipality is now seeking a strategic and future-oriented HR Manager who wants to drive and develop our work in culture, skills provision and attractiveness, leadership, employee engagement and employer matters for the entire municipality group. With us, you have the opportunity to combine meaningful leadership, shape a modern HR function with a clear development focus and work on implementing the municipality's employer policy.
This is a role for you who wants to make a real difference by creating attractive workplaces, developing good leadership and employee engagement and securing the right competencies for the future. As HR Manager, you lead a team with strong capabilities that supports the organization through the employee lifecycle and has expertise in culture work, leadership and employee engagement, skills provision, rehabilitation, employment law, work environment and salary and employer matters.
We want to take the next step and develop support for managers and employees in both the strategic and operational spheres, as well as in the digital realm, in order to stand strong going forward. Together we build a safe, innovative and sustainable operation.
Join us on our journey in one of Sweden's most beautiful cities, Västervik!
Your tasks
Västervik Municipality is now making an important investment to establish and develop a modern, strategic and coordinated HR function that is part of the HR/Communications unit and belongs to the Municipal Director's Management Office.
As HR Manager, you become a central key person in our development journey and take overall responsibility for HR, budget and employees. You will lead the work of creating a unified and future-oriented HR function for the entire municipality group.
The role includes leading a team of employees working with preventive and strategic HR initiatives, negotiation, rehabilitation, organizational and leadership development, work environment, recruitment, skills provision, attractiveness and our shared culture. Employees look forward to a strategic, communicative, clear and inclusive manager who can drive development forward and meet the expectations of operations and the wider world.
The role also includes:
Establishing and developing a unified, strategic and operational HR function.
Ensuring high quality in HR processes such as culture work, skills provision, employment law, recruitment, work environment, leadership and organizational development.
Initiating and driving strategic assignments that support the municipality's vision and overall goals.
Strengthening the municipality's employer brand and contributing to attractive and sustainable workplaces.
Leading change and development work including more efficient ways of working through AI and digitalization.
Developing culture, structures and methods that are modern, trust-based and operations-oriented.
Coordinating and strengthening collaboration between the HR function and the municipality's operations and municipal companies.
Ensuring and following up HR work so that it complies with laws, agreements and governing documents within the municipality group.
Your competencies
We are seeking an experienced leader who has a strategic perspective and very strong communication skills and can develop and implement HR strategies in operational work. Through a communicative and inclusive way of working, you create trust with both managers, employees and trade union representatives. You like people and are good at creating good relationships and building collaborations.
To succeed in the role, you are strategic, analytical and development-oriented. You have an inclusive and coaching leadership style and thrive in a dynamic and complex environment where you lead through clarity, dialogue and participation. We would like to see that you have experience of leading through change, driving culture development and developing modern HR processes.
We would like to see that you have:
Academic education in HR or equivalent education and experience that the employer deems equivalent.
Multi-year experience of strategic work and working with change management.
Good knowledge of operations management, employer policy and leading in a larger public organization or equivalent and therefore good understanding of its conditions and processes.
Good ability to build relationships and collaborate in complex organizations.
Knowledge of relevant laws and regulations (collective agreements, employment law, work environment legislation, GDPR, etc.)
Experience of working with administrative HR work and digital HR tools.
Good understanding and experience of building trade union relations and cooperation.
About the employer
In Västervik Municipality, we care for our residents, businesses, visitors and our employees' work environment. We work to create workplaces where people thrive, develop and feel pride.
The municipality has approximately 3,200 employees working in important and meaningful operations such as education, care and elderly care, community development, culture, water and sanitation, rescue services and labor market issues.
As an employer, Västervik Municipality offers:
Focus on a sustainable working life
Investments in leadership and employee engagement
A clear strategy for health promotion work
Read more about what Västervik Municipality offers you as an employee:
www.vastervik.se/jobba-hos-oss
Other information
Do you need help finding housing? Our Relocation Service provides support with tips, information and contacts regarding work, housing, schools and leisure. They also arrange meetings for newcomers to facilitate a faster introduction to life in Västervik.
Read more about Västervik:
https://www.vastervik.com/flytta-till-vastervik/hittahem/
We conduct interviews continuously during the application period so submit your application today!
Information
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Västervik Municipality seeks HR Manager
Do you want to contribute to quality of life every day within the Västervik Municipality group?
Västervik Municipality is now seeking a strategic and future-oriented HR Manager who wants to drive and develop our work in culture, skills provision and attractiveness, leadership, employee engagement and employer matters for the entire municipality group. With us, you have the opportunity to combine meaningful leadership, shape a modern HR function with a clear development focus and work on implementing the…