People & Culture Specialist

Renewable Energy Systems Ltd; Göteborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 550,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Renewable Energy Systems Ltd. is seeking a People & Culture Specialist to provide proactive HR guidance across the employee lifecycle in the Nordics, focusing on change management, policies and manager support.

The role reports to the Director P&C Operations, Northern Europe and covers Sweden, Norway and Denmark on a 12-month fixed-term contract, with emphasis on improving employee experience and organisational effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Experience in an HR/P&C advisory or coordinator-level role across Nordics.
• Strong understanding of HR/P&C processes and employment law.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to handle sensitive matters with confidentiality and empathy.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to balance priorities.
• Experience using HR systems and handling data securely.

Responsibilities

• Manage change management activities and communications across Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
• Support organisation effectiveness by aligning team structures with business needs.
• Provide day-to-day guidance to managers on performance, wellbeing and absence.
• Contribute to P&C projects including payroll tooling and process centralisation.

Education

HR degree (or working towards)

Job description

People & Culture Specialist

Provides proactive, people-centered guidance and support across the employee lifecycle. Reporting to the Director P&C Operations, Northern Europe, this role delivers high-quality operational advice, ensures consistent application of policies, and partners with senior leadership and people managers on day-to-day people matters across Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The Specialist also partners with the wider P&C Ops community in the region and the Strategic P&C Business Partners aligned to the business units that operate in the Nordics. The Specialist plays a key role in supporting change management, improving the employee experience, resolving issues early, and enabling a high-performing, values-driven culture.

Position is offered on a 12-month fixed-term contract basis.

Key Accountabilities

1. Change Management

• Support leaders in managing post-restructure impacts, including team stability, morale, and role clarity.
• Track and monitor change adoption, highlighting risks or areas of resistance.
• Help reinforce clarity around roles, responsibilities, and ways of working within the new structure.
• Ensure key messages are communicated consistently across teams and locations.
• Analyse feedback from listening forums and surveys, supporting the development of practical actions.
• Identify potential engagement risks following organisational changes.
• Support initiatives to rebuild engagement and team effectiveness post-transition.
• Contribute to regular pulse checks to monitor employee sentiment.

3. Organisation Effectiveness

• Support the implementation of the new organisational structure at a team level.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and reduce inefficiencies.
• Help ensure alignment between team structures, capabilities, and business needs.

4. Leader Capability & Support

• Provide day-to-day support and guidance to managers navigating change and team challenges.
• Equip managers with tools and guidance to manage performance, absence, and wellbeing.
• Support leaders in setting clear team priorities and objectives.
• Support delivery of wellbeing initiatives aligned to post-restructure needs.
• Work with managers to identify and address workload and capacity concerns.
• Monitor indicators such as attrition, absence, and engagement, flagging emerging risks.
• Support retention activities to maintain team stability.
• Assist in identifying critical roles and supporting actions to reduce turnover risk.

7. P&C Operations & Projects

• Payroll input, review, approval and query management.
• Work closely with project teams to support implementation of IFS and CloudPay.
• Work with project team to support payroll and core administrative task centralisation.
• Participate in cross-functional P&C projects aimed at driving efficiency and improving employee experience across the lifecycle.

Skills, Experience and Attributes

• Experience in an HR/P&C advisory or coordinator-level role, with exposure to employee relations preferably across all Nordics countries.
• Strong understanding of HR/P&C processes and employment legislation.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills across all levels.
• Ability to handle sensitive matters with confidentiality, empathy, and professionalism.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities.
• Confident using P&C systems and working with sensitive data.
• HR Degree (or working towards) or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement or change initiatives.
• Experience in a fast-paced, multisite or matrix organisation.

At RES, we celebrate differences as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.