Head of HR

Solid, international trucking company – 260 employees – HR as a business area

Are you the one we are looking for?

Do you have experience or potential to roll up your sleeves and lift an already well-functioning HR function to the next level?

The job

With reference to the CEO and as a member of the management team, you, in a newly created role, will be responsible for gathering, developing and anchoring the group’s total HR activities, primarily in Denmark.

You shall develop and run a business-oriented HR function. This means, among other things, that you must be able to roll up your sleeves and show that you and your function are a truly revenue-generating, business area that has a justification in a culture where concrete results are continuously measured.

You shall hire a “right hand” who can assist you, but you must also be able to motivate and manage the many internal resources, both in management and staff, who can support this task.

In close collaboration with the CEO and the management team, you must therefore be able to develop an overarching and prioritized HR strategy – a plan that you will subsequently lead the implementation of in close partnership with the management team. “Get it done” is a mantra here.

As one of the more demanding aspects of this HR assignment, there should for instance be focus on:

• Attracting, hiring, developing and retaining the right employees and leaders, of whom there are already many in the company today.
• Identifying and describing the organizational competencies, resources and development areas so that targeted work can subsequently be done with these.
• Ongoing optimization and adjustment of the organizational structure in relation to the chosen business strategy and market development.
• Training and education of all employee groups, both drivers and administrative staff. All with the focus on expanding and strengthening the wellbeing and motivation that already exists in the company today.
• “Pen on the desk”: focusing on:
• Upcoming legislation, rules and employment law.
• Contact with and collaboration with employer associations, trade unions and local groups, also union-political.
• A proactive effort around ongoing adjustment of the organization, i.e. production, sales and market development.
• Improve leadership and middle management further so they become stronger at driving their own daily work and organization.
• Lead various working groups such as AMU and SUV, etc.

Qualifications

You are currently in a similar role in a larger company, where you have successfully led a demanding HR function. If you do not have experience at this level, you have the potential and the will to push yourself through and grow solidly in the job.

Furthermore, it is expected that you hold a relevant theoretical education that enables you to develop and apply the tools such a task requires. Also when it comes to using strong IT tools.

You are exceptionally gifted, and as a person you are strong, genuine and trustworthy. You are also a skilled leadership profile, with very good cross-disciplinary collaboration abilities, combined with decisiveness, perseverance and a great ability to sell ideas, motivate and move opinions.

It is also crucial that you can identify, describe, prioritize and solve your tasks, both on your own and in close collaboration with a dynamic and demanding organization that does not automatically see the value in all HR activities. You master Danish at negotiation level and are strong in English and German. If you have knowledge of the Scandinavian languages, this is an advantage.

You offer

An HR challenge absolutely out of the ordinary. A challenge where you yourself have great influence on the HR function you will build, and how it should subsequently be run and developed. It will be “your child.”

So here is a rare opportunity to create and develop “your own” HR business area in a dynamic and innovative, international trucking company.

This is a challenging assignment that offers the opportunity to build the HR structure that will form the foundation for your future role and your own future. You will solve your tasks in close collaboration with a capable and innovative leadership, with a focus on business development and good commercial sense.

In daily life you will experience an exciting and informal environment, characterized by “pulse”, professionalism and high decision-making speed – an environment where you become a key resource in a demanding organizational and business development process.

Salary and employment terms are in line with the requirements.

The company

erwin andersen a/s is recruiting for the trucking business Johs. Rasmussen Svebølle A/S , which was founded in 1932, and today is one of Scandinavia’s largest trucking companies with companies in Sweden, Norway and Germany. The company employs about 260 employees in lorry transport, container, concrete element, silo, tank truck and oil/bitumen transport. Johs. Rasmussen Svebølle is a solid and well-run company and today has about 175 tractor units and 650 trailers. The customers are some of the largest companies in the industry.

Johs. Rasmussen Svebølle has an overarching philosophy of getting a little better every day – and earning a little more than yesterday. The company places great emphasis on having well-motivated and happy employees who continually develop themselves, both for the benefit of the company and personally.

Apply

If you have the right competencies and solid motivation for this assignment, you should mark your application and your detailed CV with the job reference number “01.09.71” and upload it here on the site.

All inquiries will of course be treated confidentially.

We have no application deadline on our job advertisements, as we recruit candidates successively during the recruitment process.

Note: The job advertisement is relisted on various job portals from time to time. This does not mean that the recruitment process has started over.

We look forward to hearing from you.