Head of the Negotiations and Legal Department

Are you motivated by bringing together leadership, employment law, negotiation and advisory in one role, where you take responsibility for both operations, development and prioritization? Then you should apply for the position as Section Chief for Negotiation and Law at Banedanmark.

As Section Chief in Negotiation and Law at Banedanmark, you will lead 14 ambitious, engaged, and professionally skilled employees who value professional sparring and a good social work environment with an informal tone. You will have personnel responsibility for the section's staff in close collaboration with the area manager.

You will become part of the leadership team in HR Personnel. Here we work with employment law, agreements, negotiations, management advisory, HR data and payroll. When the internal HR frameworks function, they support Banedanmark's work with a safe and stable infrastructure for citizens and businesses.

Tasks

You will have a daily life with both leadership, prioritization and professional sparring. The tasks are varied, but they are closely connected and require you to translate law, agreements and cross-cutting development projects into clear deliverables in the organization. Your tasks include, among others, to;

• Have the managerial responsibility for the section's 14 employees (HR partners and HR lawyers), including prioritizing and distributing tasks, following up on quality and ensuring delivery on time.
• Support the business in employment-law cases and negotiation tasks and ensure clear and usable HR advisory in daily operations.
• Structure and further develop the section's workflows, including work with further digitization of tasks and processes.
• Conduct dialogue and negotiation processes with the trade unions and ensure a solid basis for agreements and personnel policy solutions.
• Support the development of personnel policies, local agreements and cooperation agreements.
• Actively contribute to the HR Personnel leadership team with coordination, prioritization and joint leadership tasks across.

Qualifications and competences

• You hold a social science master's degree or another relevant academic education.
• You have strong analytical skills and are able to understand complex problems.
• You have organizational understanding and can coordinate across divisions and contribute to good cross-functional collaboration
• You have good relational abilities, and you understand the importance of building relationships with partners.
• As a person you are motivating, empathetic, positive and contribute to a good working environment.

In addition, you have

• Experience with people management from an HR function (preferably governmental).
• A good understanding of a politically governed organization and clear written and oral communication across disciplines and levels.
• Solid knowledge of HR tasks including employment law in a broad sense, so you can contribute to qualifying decisions and spar with employees and managers.
• Experience with the agreement and negotiation area in an organizational context with multiple stakeholders is welcome.

Salary and employment conditions

As an academic, you are employed under the applicable collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and a number of academic organizations for academics in the state.

Placement is as a chief consultant with management responsibilities pursuant to the applicable collective agreement, which you find here and the Employee and Competence Agency's salary overview, which you find here.

Depending on your qualifications and competences there is an opportunity for negotiation of supplements. The total salary will include an employer-funded pension scheme of 18.07%.

The position may possibly be filled on a permanent basis.

Application and contact

If you want to know more about the position, contact HR Personnel Chief Christina Lundgren at +45 21842565 (feel free to send a text message, and you will be contacted). If you have questions about salary and employment terms, you can contact our personnel consultants at [email protected]

We assess applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so please send your application and CV as soon as possible.

We expect to hold 2nd interviews at the end of October using a personality profile and possibly a case.

To apply for the position, click the link “Søg stilling” and follow the instructions.

Different perspectives make us stronger. Therefore Banedanmark values diversity and encourages all interested candidates, regardless of personal background, to apply.

If you advance from the initial interviews, references from former employers will be requested. You will be informed before a reference is sought.

Application deadline: October 18, 2026

Location: Capital Region