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Group Talent & Development Director

Location

Sweden, Stockholm

Location

Sweden, Stockholm

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2022-11-20

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 partners 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 experience 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 :)

We are Strawberry. With over 225 hotels, 120 restaurants, 20 spas and more, we create thousands of experiences every day. With urban Comfort Hotel®, warm Quality Hotel™, stylish Clarion Hotel® and cosy Clarion Collection® Hotel and more than 40 unique independent hotels, our guests can pick and choose. Our team of 17 000 passionate individuals from more than 120 countries is what makes up our company – diversity is what makes us grow! Strawberry is built on our core values: energy, courage and enthusiasm.

What’s in it for you?

As part of of Strawberry, you will get the best employee benefits of the industry.

A culture to cherish

A culture to cherish

Our people always make guests their top priority! Our warm and welcoming atmosphere creates the right setting for you to flourish and work your magic. You will get the freedom you need to perform your tasks and solve problems as they arise in the best way you see fit. A strong team spirit and family-feeling foster a culture of collaboration. And when there’s something to celebrate, we make sure to have some fun! In larger cities, we also regularly host after-work events to allow colleagues to mingle. How do we achieve all this you may wonder? We believe it’s down to the fact that we’re a diverse crowd full of energy, courage and enthusiasm. That’s how we create extraordinary experiences every single day!

A culture to cherish

Job security for peace of mind

Job security for peace of mind

When you work with us, we’ll take your whole life situation into consideration. We offer good job security through collective agreements and insurances, as well as paid parental leave, holiday leave, wellness allowance, attractive pension plans and competitive salaries. We’re there for you.

Job security for peace of mind

Room to grow

Room to grow

With more than 200 hotels across the Nordics, we offer you endless opportunities for career progression! Would you like to work full-time, part-time, a few hours here and there, or perhaps only a season? We have room for you, no matter where you’re at. We encourage creativity and curiosity, and we make every effort to foster a culture of learning for professional development. Ready to take your next career leap within the company? We applaud you and will help you achieve this! An academic degree isn't the most important thing for us. If you have the right mindset, we can certainly promise you a bright future!

Room to grow

Explore more

Explore more

We encourage you to get out and explore all that life has to offer! So, we always give numerous discounts to you and your friends and family at our hotels, bars and restaurants. As part of Strawberry, you get four FREE nights at our hotels each year* To remind you just how important you are, we’ll always do our best to offer you an upgrade! And on top of that, we’ve also partnered with other companies to give you sweet deals on air travel, charter holidays, car rental and lots more. 

*If you are employed on a contract for at least 20% of full-time working hours.

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Open mind, open hearts

Open mind, open hearts

Our heart beats for the world around us. To meet global challenges, we support the transition to clean energy, and we recently opened the first zero-energy hotel in the Nordics. We seek to use organic produce and have championed the elimination of unsustainable palm oil. We promote equal rights above all and are proud sponsors of Pride. Regardless of your ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, disabilities or age - our doors are always open.

Open mind, open hearts

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