Our current HRBP for Operations is going on maternity leave and consequently we have a 1 year opening in our amazing team.

As an HR Business Partner in Operations, you will be working on providing direction and moving forward the people agenda for our Operations function in Denmark. You will be creating effective business partnership to managers across Operations and will act as a trusted sparring partner within the HR toolbox.

Sounds wonderful…?

At WS Audiology, your work matters. We bring back hearing by innovating hearing aids and care to improve the lives of millions. Together, we unlock human potential to redefine and impact an entire industry. Will you amplify your live and become the HR Business Partner for our Operation department?

The HQ HR team at WS Audiology

You will join a HR team in Denmark covering HR Partnering, HR Services, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, C&B, L&D and HR Projects. We are a relatively new team filled with energy and a lot of potential for developing the HR function. Furthermore, we all have an enthusiasm to make an impact in the development of the HR organization in one of our headquarters moving forward. You will report to the Senior Director and Head of HR Denmark as part of our EMEA LA-CA organization, supporting employees and managers at our Danish HQ.

This role will work closely together with local HR Business Partners in Denmark and the Global HR Business Partner for Operations, Quality and Procurement.

The Role

In this opportunity being a important cover for our current HR Business Partner cover, you will over the next year or so, support around 400 people in our local Operations function. You will also support two smaller local areas, Procurement and Quality Assurance.

More specifically you will be responsible for:

• Championing the HR practices and effectively managing and communicating with local stakeholder groups and employees.
• Tactical and operational deployment of HR partner support to the business area / function covering the site
• Securing resolution of continuous people related topics in close collaboration with local and global business leaders
• Review and oversee performance and talent management and succession planning framework
• Ensure employee leadership & development needs are identified and prioritized to maximize employee potential towards meeting business requirements
• Run yearly HR cycle calendar with key HR processes; Performance & Talent review, Organizational review, employee engagement surveys, manage local culture programs, conduct yearly salary and bonus review
• Take part in optimization projects within HR

What are the background, we are looking for as a HR Business Partner at WS Audiology, you might ask?

The ideal candidate is an experienced HR professional with proven experience in improving business focused HR. Furthermore, as WS Audiology are maturing the HR organization, you should be a skilled “conductor” of change and be able to handle complex relationship management with both academics as well as technically educated stakeholders. You have worked in a unionized setting and are fully knowledgeable about Danish labour laws and collective bargaining setups.

As a person, we are looking for a business partner who can bring a different perspective and believe in it enough to speak up for it.

Furthermore, we imagine that you can recognize yourself in the following:

• You have experience working as an HR Business Partner
• Preferably knowledge from HR working with manufacturing, engineering or technical functions
• Solution and action oriented with solid experience dealing with local HR issues, Danish legal compliance and collective bargaining agreements (Industriens overenskomst)
• Experience interacting with local and global senior executives
• Solid experience across key HR processes

On a more personal level, you might be able to reflect yourself in the following:

• A people-oriented person who is always looking for solutions and bringing quantitative improvements, with a “can-do” attitude
• Ability to handle ambiguity in a HQ environment with many facets of interest
• A go-doer who is not afraid to take on assignments outside scope of work
• Good team-oriented person, who understand that together, we can do more and you are able to be an example for others at the Lynge site
• Great interpersonal and intercultural skills working with local and global stakeholders
• Displaying good communication and stakeholder management skills to work with people across all levels and seniority
• A creative and innovative individual to handle and bring new ideas to the team

What we would like to offer you

The working environment at WS Audiology is informal with team-oriented and skilled colleagues. You can expect a working culture with a large degree of freedom under responsibility, where it is, what you deliver in the end that counts.

Our values focus on teamwork across functions, pioneering as well as having the passion to make an impact. So, if you can see yourself in those values, you will fit right in.

Our Danish headquarter is based in almost CO2 friendly and modern facility with beautiful surroundings close to Allerød, north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Join us

We review applications on a continuous basis, so please submit your application as soon as possible. In case of any questions, please reach out to Talent Acquisition Partner, Kathrine Schlegel Rasmussen at kathrine.rasmussen@wsa.com