People Partner

Opportunity

My name is Kristine Baagø, and I am looking for a People Partner to join our fantastic team here in Copenhagen. It’s a new role and comes with great development opportunities and responsibility. You will help us shape and form the future people set up to drive and support the exciting transformation journey we’re on.

As our new People Partner, you focus on the full HR cycle, where your tasks vary from recruiting the future talents of Svitzer, participating or running a workshop for a team, discussing employer branding with your peers in other regions or updating job specs in Workday. Basically, end-to-end support for our leaders and the wider organization.

Collaboration is the path to long-term success, so we need a true team player to enable our People team to create the most value. You demonstrate ownership and do the right thing even when it takes courage to do so. You need to be passionate about people and helping them grow.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

About Svitzer
Svitzer is a towage company, which means we help our customers manoeuvre their larger ships safely and timely in and out of ports. We operate globally, and most of our business is to support container vessels, cargo ships, cruise ships and navy vessels but we also attend to emergencies like vessels being adrift or offshore fires. People & Culture is a strong partner to all business areas and key to drive, support and innovate the future of Svitzer. We are on an exciting journey, leading the way for towage to generate a cleaner, greener future for our industry.

About the position
As People Partner you will become part of the People & Culture team in Harbour House II in Copenhagen and report to Head of HR, Global Functions.

You are the glue of the People & Culture organization in Copenhagen, and your closest colleagues are a small team of highly competent fun-loving colleagues. This role is a capacity builder with lots of potential to grow and join exciting development projects with our centres of excellence globally. You build strong relationships with leaders and their teams, and you drive the local delivery of the annual HR Cycle across all process areas.

You are go-to person on a variety of different tasks, reliable and trustworthy, and your primary responsibilities can be divided mainly into;

• full ownership of HR annual cycle activities
• supporting the planning and execution of HR projects and initiatives
• supporting our business leaders with recruitments

You play a key role in ensuring a stellar HR experience and this includes ensuring quality also of operational tasks from time to time.

Other responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with functional leaders and provide sparring and guidance on HR cycle
• Work with the regional People & Culture organization on the day-to-day development and delivery of people processes
• Cooperate with Global Operations on relocation and mobility
• Be a system process champion and address opportunities for improvement both within People & Culture and for all employees
• Run full cycle recruitment processes for Global Functions
• Employee experience from Onboarding to offboarding

We are looking for

• 3-5 years of experience as a People Partner or HRBP preferably in a global setting
• A passion for being a trusted advisor and sparring partner
• Structured, proactive, and curious of nature
• Experience with the HR annual wheel activities in a corporate environment including performance management, salary review, employee engagement, and talent review
• A strong recruiter and a good nose for assessing talent
• Someone who can cope with organizational complexity, change, and a People & Culture set-up that is under continuous development
• Strong proficiency in English

This is an excellent opportunity to grow and develop as an HR professional in a global environment. Svitzer is part of the Maersk family and provides a wide range of development opportunities, a good flexible workplace with dedicated and competent colleagues in an informal environment.

If you are keen to be a part of our journey, we would love to hear from you!

Building a Diverse Workplace

In Svitzer we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that members from some under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every single qualification. At Svitzer we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, and we are excited about hearing from you!

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