HR Operations Lead (Nordics)

Michael Page HR; West Midlands; Remote; GBP 84,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home based role

Weekly travel

Benefits package

Job summary

Michael Page HR seeks an experienced HR leader to manage a large multi-country operation across the UK, Ireland and the Nordic region. You will guide a dedicated HR team, partner with leaders and shape HR strategy in a complex international landscape.

You will drive HR excellence, champion data-driven decisions and ensure regulatory compliance across jurisdictions while operating in a home-based role with regular travel.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build credibility across a matrix organisation.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

HR leadership

Multi-country teams

Stakeholder management

Employee relations

Workday/HRIS

CIPD

Strategic thinking

Change management

Education

CIPD qualification

Tools

Workday

ServiceNow

HRIS

Job description

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