The Role
Lead HR operations in Sweden for a 12-month parental leave cover, managing a small HR team, partnering with senior leaders to drive organisational change, improve HR processes and systems, advise on performance, organization design, talent planning, and coach leaders to ensure high-quality HR delivery across multiple business areas.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are looking for a strategic and people‑centric Senior Lead, People & Culture Business Partner to join our team and play a key role in shaping an impactful and high‑performing organisation. This is a 12‑month parental leave cover, offering a great opportunity to make a meaningful contribution in a dynamic environment.
In this role, you will lead the HR work in Sweden, while leading a small, dedicated HR team with two employees supporting several business areas, ensuring that people priorities are closely aligned with local organisational needs. You will translate strategy into actionable plans, setting clear short‑term operational direction while driving meaningful outcomes.
As a trusted partner to senior leaders, you will influence and guide the adoption of modern HR practices, ensuring effective communication of key initiatives and organisational changes. You will thrive in a dynamic environment where you can tackle complex challenges, drive improvements in HR processes and programmes, and deliver sustainable solutions across multiple business areas.
You will also play a leadership role in coaching and guiding leaders and your team, using your deep HR expertise and strong leadership capabilities to deliver results and elevate team performance.
What you bring:
- Proven experience in a Senior HR Business Partner, HR Leader or similar role
- Strong ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders
- Experience driving organisational change and HR transformation
- A solution‑oriented mindset with the ability to navigate complex people challenges
- Excellent leadership skills and a passion for developing others
Join us and make a tangible impact by shaping the future of our people strategy and organisational success for a year!
Responsibilities
- Establish short‑term operational plans that support people and culture priorities.
- Lead a team of HR employees working across multiple job areas.
- Advise senior leaders on performance, organisation design, employee relations and talent planning.
- Influence leaders to adopt new people practices and approaches.
- Conduct briefings with senior leadership and communicate key HR topics and risks.
- Support organisational change, including restructures and integration activities.
- Drive significant improvements to HR processes, systems and tools across multiple areas.
- Resolve difficult HR issues using broad knowledge, experience and detailed analysis.
- Guide talent initiatives including workforce planning, succession and leadership development.
- Support the rollout of HR programs and ensure strong adoption across the organisation.
- Provide coaching and guidance to the HR employees in the team.
- Ensure high quality HR delivery across all supported business areas.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Extensive experience in HR business partnering with exposure to complex organisational environments.
- Strong knowledge of employment practices, organisation design, talent management and people processes.
- Ability to solve difficult people issues across several business areas using analysis and judgement.
- Ability to influence senior leaders and gain support for new concepts and practices.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to brief senior leadership.
- Experience leading large teams of experienced professionals.
- Proven ability to drive significant improvements to HR processes and systems.
- Education in HR, business or a related field, supported by significant experience.
About
Forterro is a federation of ERP software and services companies serving small to mid market companies around the globe, with offices in UK, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Poland, Bulgaria, India, Morocco and USA. At Forterro, we invest in and help to fortify both local and niche ERP software businesses.Our product line businesses are local, not localized and vertical, not verticalized.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in a Senior HR Business Partner, HR Leader or similar role
- Strong ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders
- Experience driving organisational change and HR transformation
- Solution-oriented mindset and ability to navigate complex people challenges
- Excellent leadership skills and passion for developing others
- Extensive experience in HR business partnering in complex organisational environments
- Strong knowledge of employment practices, organisation design, talent management and people processes
- Ability to resolve difficult HR issues using analysis and judgement
- Strong communication skills with ability to brief senior leadership
- Experience leading teams of HR professionals
- Proven ability to drive significant improvements to HR processes and systems
- Education in HR, business or a related field supported by significant experience
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The Company
What We Do
Founded in 2012, Forterro has grown to become a category leader software solutions for the industrial market – with strongholds in Europe’s top production economies, as well as regional service hubs and development centres around the world. From more than 40 office locations, our 1,600+ employees provide and support software for more than 13,000 industrial businesses. Our products are deeply rooted in the demands of their local geography. And each is designed to strengthen and accelerate our customers’ ability to operate efficiently and compete effectively.
