Västervik Municipality is seeking an HR Director
Would you like to contribute to quality of life every day within the Västervik municipal group?
Västervik Municipality is now seeking a strategic and future-oriented HR Director who wants to drive and develop our work within culture, competency supply, and attractiveness, leadership, employee engagement, and employer matters across the entire municipal group. With us, you will have the opportunity to combine meaningful leadership, shape a modern HR function with clear development focus, and work to uphold the municipality's employer policies. 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 Director, you will lead a team with strong capabilities that supports the organization throughout the employee lifecycle and has expertise in culture work, leadership and employee engagement, competency supply, 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 strategic and operational matters, as well as in the digital sphere, in order to remain strong moving forward. Together, we build a safe, innovative, and sustainable operation. Join us on our journey in one of Sweden's most beautiful cities, Västervik!
About the position
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/Communication unit and belongs to the Municipal Director's Management Office. As HR Director, you will become a central key person in our development journey and will have overall responsibility for HR, budget, and staff. You will lead the work of creating a cohesive and future-oriented HR function for the entire municipal group. The role includes leading a team of employees working with preventive and strategic HR initiatives, negotiations, rehabilitation, organizational and leadership development, work environment, recruitment, competency supply, attractiveness, and our shared culture.
Employees look forward to a strategic, communicative, clear, and inclusive manager who can drive development forward and meet expectations from operations and the external world.
The role involves:
- Establishing and developing a cohesive, strategic, and operational HR function.
- Ensuring high quality in HR processes such as culture work, competency supply, employment law, recruitment, work environment, and leadership and organizational development.
- Initiating and driving strategic assignments that support the municipality's vision and overarching goals.
- Strengthening the municipality's employer brand and contributing to attractive and sustainable workplaces.
- Leading change and development work including more efficient methods through AI and digitalization.
- Coordinating and strengthening collaboration between the HR function and the municipality's operations and municipal companies.
Your profile
We are seeking you as an experienced leader with a strategic perspective and very good communication skills. You can develop and implement HR strategies in operational work and build trusting relationships with managers, employees, and union representatives.
To succeed in this role, you are strategic, analytical, and development-oriented. You have a coaching and inclusive leadership style and thrive in a dynamic and complex environment where you lead through clarity, dialogue, and participation. We would appreciate if you have experience with change management, culture development, and development of modern HR processes.
Qualifications:
- Academic education in HR or equivalent education and experience that the employer deems equivalent.
- Several years of experience with strategic work and change management.
- Experience with personnel and budget responsibility.
- Good knowledge of operational management, employer policies, and leading in a larger organization, including good understanding of its conditions and processes.
- Strong 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 with administrative HR work and digital HR tools.
- Good understanding and experience of building union relations and cooperation.
About Västervik Municipality
At 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 social services, community development, culture, water and sewerage, rescue services, and labor market issues. As an employer, Västervik Municipality offers:
- Focus on a sustainable working life - Initiatives for leadership and employee engagement
- A clear strategy for health-promoting work
Read more about what Västervik Municipality offers you as an employee: www.vastervik.se/jobba-hos-oss
Application
If you fit the above profile, do not hesitate to apply today! Apply for the position by clicking apply and register in our database, this is to follow the guidelines that apply to GDPR. For questions about the position or the recruitment process, please contact the responsible recruitment consultant:
Anastasia Almasidis and can be reached at 0790984164 or at [email protected]
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Would you like to contribute to quality of life every day within the Västervik municipal group?
Västervik Municipality is now seeking a strategic and future-oriented HR Director who wants to drive and develop our work within culture, competency supply, and attractiveness, leadership, employee engagement, and employer matters across the entire municipal group. With us, you will have the opportunity to combine meaningful leadership, shape a modern HR function with clear development focus, and work to uphold the municipality's employer policies.…