Chief People and Culture Officer till Kiona, Göteborg

Kiona Group is a leading proptech company in Europe, enabling stakeholders to optimise resource efficiency while reducing emissions from buildings through the monitoring, control and optimisation of energy usage. With well-proven solutions for integration and connectivity, the Group helps customers achieve their financial and sustainability objectives by digitalising new and old buildings and their systems for heating, cooling, ventilation and refrigeration. Kiona is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway.

Today, Kiona has 17 offices across 8 countries with around 135 employees. Leveraging this global footprint, Kiona serves daily about 55.000 commercial property, residential and public buildings and about 3.000 grocery stores in Europe.

Kiona are supported by strong underlying megatrends, namely climate change and digitalization and increasing energy prices and new EU regulations will further build momentum for rapid growth.

As Chief People and Culture Officer you will provide significant commercial HR support in an environment where service delivery is paramount. The Chief People and Culture Officer will assist the company to build sustainable competitive advantage through the selection and development of top talent who possesses capabilities that differentiate the company from its competitors.

You will coach and support leaders and managers to implement and embed people strategic plans; creating an organisation that is fit for the purpose. Supporting the company’s business goals and objectives to maintain competitive advantage, increase business profitability and deliver to customer expectations.

Key Accountabilities:

• Be an advisor for managers in all HR-related issues, such as recruitment, employee development, grievances & disciplinaries, and labour law issues
• Be a visible HR resource in the organization
• Work closely with senior leaders and functional support teams, providing a mix of “hands-on” operational HR guidance as well as strategic partnering
• Facilitate training and coaching for managers (supervisor training, diversity and inclusion philosophies, positive employee relations training, talent management, attract staff back to office etc.)
• Support and drive implementation of annual HR processes and tools
• Ownership of quality control for HR administrative tasks, reporting, revision of documents/ handbooks, supplier relationships
• Continuous development of the HR department's internal processes and procedures.
• Active role in development of Group core values
• Reports to Group CEO
• Part of the Group’s Executive Team

Essential:

• Extensive experience within a HR Manager/ Partner role
• International experience with M&A activities and integration of new business
• Coaching to business leaders and managers
• Demonstrable experience in continuous review and improvement of people processes and procedures to meet operational requirements
• Strong language skills in Swedish and English (written and oral)

Desirable:

• Demonstrable experience in managing employee and improving employee engagement
• Higher education qualification in related subject.

Personal Qualities & Behaviours:

• Key competencies: Instils trust, collaborates, customer focus, communicates effectively, resilience, action orientated
• Positive and service focused
• Agile, change agent
• Builds & maintains strong relationships at all levels and collaborates to ensure that we achieve our goals together
• Analytical and solution oriented
• Ability (and preferable experience) to work in an international organization
• Ethical approach and keen on delivering high quality work

We offer:

• A fast-paced environment where no day is the same
• Varied work tasks with lots of responsibilities
• Excellent opportunities for developing skills and competencies as well as professional growth
• Work in an international and rapidly growing company
• Flexibility and competitive compensation

We want the Chief People and Culture Officer to be based in the Gothenburg area, where we have offices in Borås and Kungsbacka. We have 1 HR Manager in the Group and this position is based in Trondheim.

Does this sound like the perfect fit for you? If so, we are excited to hear from you! We welcome your application in English with CV and cover letter at www.maquire.se no later than the 6th of June. If you have any questions, please contact Elisabeth Lidstedt, +46 735 19 40 51.