Head of Learning and Leadership Development, Skanska Sweden AB - Stockholm
The assignment to be part of creating a better society and making a real difference – together. Here, you have the chance to contribute to shaping a culture where collaboration, innovation, and learning are at the forefront.
Skanska's promise is to build a better society. We are driven by strong values and a belief that engaged employees who thrive and are in the right place create the conditions for satisfied customers and market success. Our ambition is to be a role model as a community developer, and therefore we need to actively contribute to a sustainable society. We do this by participating in public debates and striving to work closely with our customers on sustainability issues. We develop our cities to meet the needs of tomorrow, considering both people and the environment.
Our employees are our greatest asset!
About the Organization
Within HR, we drive the work of attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining the best employees in all roles. With business understanding, commitment, and innovation, we enable the best employee experience together with the organization's leaders. Through competence and structure in leadership and organization, we strengthen the organization's ability to deliver good results. Together, we create an HR that meets future needs in a value-creating and sustainable way – and contributes to Skanska's promise to build a better society. The HR organization at Skanska Sverige AB consists of four units that provide operational HR support to the business and five strategic units with specialist expertise in various HR areas. Learning and Leadership Development is one of the strategic units.
About the Role
As the Functional Manager, you drive Skanska Sweden's development as a learning organization with a focus on developing employees' competencies and ensuring a strong leadership culture. You have overall responsibility for strategy, development, and progress within the function's main areas of responsibility:
- Skanska Sweden as a learning organization
- Leadership at Skanska Sweden – Our way of leading
- Talent management, succession planning, and executive recruitment
- Competence and leadership development, including nomination programs, training programs, individual and team development
- Training administration for all educational initiatives at Skanska Sweden
Focus areas during the current business plan period include:
- Leading the implementation of our updated leadership framework in collaboration with different parts of the organization, ensuring its integration into processes, ways of working, programs, and development initiatives
- Continuing to drive the transformation and development of Skanska Sweden as a learning organization
As a leader, you have personnel-, forecast-, and budget responsibility, focusing on creating sustainable and efficient working methods. You lead a team of 12 employees with high expertise in their roles as leadership developers, executive recruiters, HR specialists, and training administrators. You collaborate broadly within HR, with line managers, and other units that are vital for successfully influencing and driving change. Your ability to build relationships and drive change is crucial for creating effective and sustainable results.
Who Are You?
We are looking for someone with a genuine interest in people and who sees diversity and inclusion as enablers of success. You are attentive, curious, and skilled at translating the organization's needs into concrete learning initiatives that contribute to Skanska's success. Proactivity, perseverance, and commitment characterize your way of being. You thrive in a visible role and gain energy from collaboration and cooperation with others. You are communicative with a good ability to drive changes in a larger organization.
To succeed in the role, you have:
- At least 10 years of experience leading learning, competence, and leadership development in a large organization
- At least 10 years of experience as a manager with direct personnel responsibility
- Proven experience in leading transformation initiatives to enhance learning capabilities in a large organization
- Experience with budgeting and financial forecasting
- An academic degree in a relevant field or equivalent qualifications deemed appropriate by the employer
Experience in managing, developing, and running large leadership development programs is advantageous, as are knowledge of digital learning platforms.
You are proficient in advanced Swedish and English, both spoken and written.
Welcome with Your application!
In this recruitment, we are collaborating with Poolia Executive Search AB, Pion Group's business for recruiting management personnel and boards. Warmly welcome with your application below no later than the 9th of March 2025. If you have questions, you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultants Maria Eriksson, maria.eriksson@poolia.se or Ulrica Pantzar, ulrica.pantzar@poolia.se.
Our employees are our main strength and it is important that you feel safe with us. We want you to enjoy your work and get on with your colleagues. We promise you as an employee continuing professional development and we provide a range of internal training courses, position-specific programmes and international development opportunities. Health and safety is particularly important to us and it also provides the basis for the benefits we provide to you as a Skanska employee.
A background check will be carried out in conjunction with this recruitment in order to safeguard Skanska’s business, employees and brand as well as to verify that the information you submitted is correct. The background check is carried out by Skanska's partner 2Secure, who will receive your contact information and CV. 2Secure will obtain your consent and provide you with more information about the background check that they are performing. For more information about Skanska’s personal data processing in connection with recruitment and your rights, see here.
About the company
Skanska använder sin kunskap och framtidsinsikt för att bidra till hur människor lever, arbetar och samverkar. Vi är ett av världens största projektutvecklings- och byggföretag med en omsättning på 157 miljarder kronor under 2023. Skanska är verksamma på utvalda marknader i Norden, Europa och USA. Tillsammans med våra kunder och en samlad expertis hos cirka 27 000 medarbetare skapar vi innovativa, hållbara lösningar som främjar hälsa och välbefinnande bortom vår livstid.
