VP Group People & Culture

People Experience has the great pleasure to collaborate with and recruit Securitas next VP Group People & Culture!

Securitas is the worlds leading intelligent security services provider with its roots in Sweden. Their current strategy relies on almost 90 years of experience of leading the transformation of the security industry by putting their clients at the heart of their business. Safety is a basic premise for all of us to enjoy life with friends and family and to do well when we are at work. The threats to our safety are ever increasing and becoming more and more complex. Therefore, Securitas’ commitment to helping their clients make their world a safer place is more important than ever.

Securitas’ purpose unites 345 000 people across 47 different markets into a strong global team. From Sweden to Singapore, through on-site guarding or electronic security, your safety is why Securitas exists. Securitas’ values are the foundation of their operations, and the corporate culture is built on these values that help to shape a long-term, financially successful enterprise by creating value for customers, employees and shareholders. They are summarized in three words: Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness - which are also symbolized by the dots in their logo.

Are you a great at building relationships, whilst being prestigeless and self-motivated, with solid HR Experience across the full employee lifecycle in an international setting? Do you also have several years of experience within strategic HR leadership, including people & team management? Then you could be the one we are looking for!

About the job

In this role, you will be responsible for the group people function, leading the strategic agenda and planning of group people projects and processes. You will identify areas of improvement to further develop Securitas’ strategic people offering across the Securitas group. You will continue to evolve the people collaboration model and identify opportunities for collaboration, knowledge exchange and networking. This, whilst continuing to further embed newly introduced processes and tools and ensure that processes are fully implemented, adopted and utilized.

Key responsibilities

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Advisory & Coaching: supporting the SVP for Group Communications & People and the CEO (when needed) regarding people strategy, people operations and people initiatives. You will also be supporting and advising divisional presidents and corporate functions. This includes budgeting and resourcing for group people resources and group people programs/initiatives. You will also be overseeing the global people leadership agenda to ensure collaboration between divisional and functional people leaders. Furthermore, organising people forums and global people summits to foster close collaboration.

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Talent Management & Succession Planning: Global process ownership. You will be supporting the global people leadership team with the annual talent review together with the Securitas Group Management team. You will be responsible for the 360-feedback process and global platform to support alignment across the organisation. Furthermore, you will lead the global talent community whilst supporting global leaders in the full roll-out of the Leadership Framework across the organisation.

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Executive Leadership Development & Training: Ownership for the group executive development program. Overall planning of delivery, venues, logistics and contracts with third-party trainers and participant nominations. This, with budgeting and quality assurance.

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Employer Branding & Employee Value Proposition: Working together with Marketing to drive both the EB and EVP offering.

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Talent Attraction & Talent Retention: Support as needed in recruitment/assessment of candidates for key leadership positions. Drive establishment of common recruitment practices across the group. This, whilst supporting/advising in talent retention focusing on employee engagement, comp & ben, rewards & recognition, employee experience and learning & development.

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Employee Engagement & culture: Overall responsibility for the annual global Employee Engagement and Diversity & Inclusion Survey (eNPS+DII) and technical platform (Peakon) across the group. This includes data consolidation and presentation of group results to GM. Together with the Group Communications & Sustainability team; you will be Establishing group employee engagement QKRs to drive improvement activities in line with the group strategy and targets.

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DE&I: From a group level, support the continued roll-out of the Securitas Toolbox (Securitas way and working and group management model). Lead the internal “Toolbox community” of ambassadors and ensure that sufficient “train-the-trainer” sessions are planned. Overall supporting the people organisation rollout of inclusion training.

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Learning & Development: Give guidance and strategic support to organisation on training initiative and global learning management systems (LMS).

About you

We are looking for someone who:

- Has a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. Masters preferred.

- Has 10+ years of professional HR experience across the full employee lifecycle (broad HR generalist knowledge)

- Has 5+ years of strategic HR leadership, including people & team management

- Is experienced in working with global people teams, looking into translating strategy to relevant actions

- Has outstanding stakeholder management, relationship-building, and influencing skills with C- level leaders

Skills & competencies

Your high degree of autonomy and strong decision-making skills, alongside your strong interpersonal, verbal and written English communication skills will ensure your success in this role. You are skilled in building new processes, selling in ideas and inspiring others. You have a prestigeless mindset and enjoy solving problems whilst coaching key stakeholders in a global context.

You have previous experience from leading the strategic people agenda for a global company. Your experience from developing and managing new people programs, establishing governance models and global HR policy standards will ensure that you will enjoy this role. You have a proven ability to understand business context and leverage relevant data to identify opportunities for further developing the people function. We think that you have functional expertise in Talent Management, Succession Planning and Leadership D...