Group Talent & Development Director

Nordic Choice Hotels is one of the largest hotel companies in the Nordics with more than 200 hotels. We do not believe in a standard hotel concept that suits everyone. With stylish Clarion Hotel, warm Quality Hotel, urban Comfort Hotel and also more than 20 independent hotels - we let our guests choose from a full range of hotel experiences. Our team consists of 16,000 people from more than 120 different countries. We’re proud to say that we are diversity in practice!

Are you our next Captain of talent?

We are a different hotel company, the rebel in the industry with a warm, beating heart. For us, people are the most important thing, and to achieve our goals towards further success, we are now looking for you who feel that systemizing and streamlining talent management, employer branding and employee learnings at a larger corporation sounds extra exciting.

Nordic Choice Hotels is expanding, and we can guarantee that this job will be developing, challenging and your footprints will leave your mark in many areas. Together with the Group People & Culture team, you will ensure that talent and people development receive the necessary focus, love and care required.

We are now taking a step further and your contribution will be essential for us to continue to be a natural first choice for future employees, as well as to ensure our employees receive the learning, development, motivation and career opportunities - regardless of level. In 2023, we will rebrand the company to Strawberry and launch our new strategy where we will take the step to become a universe of offers and experiences! You are going to actively use our employer branding framework when developing and communicating Strawberry as an employer brand and engage our employees on the journey ahead.

The role is newly created, and as you have taken part in a similar development journey in a larger company in the past, we think that there is a lot in place for your experience and expertise to help lift us further. The role is part of the Nordic team and some travel must be expected. Office location can be in Stockholm or Oslo - whatever suits you best. As Group Talent & Development Director, you will be part of the People & Culture management team and report to the VP People & Culture.

Areas of responsibility:

• Lead the Nordic department for Talent & Development
• Operational and strategic partner for employer branding, talent and career development
• Drive, implement and further develop career and development initiatives for the group
• Lead, support and facilitate talent and career development for our employees, in line with the company's strategy
• Ensure that our managers have the necessary knowledge, as well as
• Ensure implementation of learning & career paths for all our 16 000 employees
• Responsibility for ensuring good cooperation with external actors relevant to the role's areas

We imagine that you have a burning commitment to your subject, competence and career, and you can turn good ideas into action. You are self-motivated, proactive and capable of change. You are able to quickly familiarize yourself with and sort information, form your own opinion and come up with proposals for solutions. Your work journey so far has given you solid experience from similar tasks in a larger company, preferably a matrix organization. In your toolbox, you have communicative skills that enable you to get your message across and you maneuver well between different levels. You are fearless, have an inner drive and desire to develop both yourself and the role in line with Nordic Choice Hotels' needs.

Otherwise, we see that you have:

• Minimum 3-5 years experience in similar tasks at management level
• Good insight into and experience from digital learning platforms
• Good insight in employer branding
• Senior experiance from talent & performance management from larger corporation
• Relevant higher education. Several years of experience in comparable areas of responsibility can be emphasized accordingly.
• Fluent in one or two of the nordic langauges as well as english

We know that with us you get a completely unique opportunity to help develop our talent management, in a very special company, with fantastic colleagues. Our working environment is well known for being characterized by positivity, warmth, and lots of energy. We do everything we can to ensure that you feel comfortable with us!

Curiosa: The People & Culture department in Nordic Choice Hotels has won several awards in recent years, and has been named Sweden's most innovative HR department and Norway's HR department of the year, among other things. Nordic Choice Hotels has also won several awards in Universum’s Most Attractive Employers rankings.

Are you our new captain of talent? Don't hesitate, but help us find you - submit your application and CV today! You are welcome to apply either in Swedish, Norwegian, or English. We are looking forward to getting to know you :)