Head of Talent Acquisition Nordic

Do you put people first, understand customer needs and have a passion for service? Welcome to Coor – you make the difference!

About the role

The Head of Talent Acquisition Nordic is responsible for designing, building, and leading a successful Talent Acquisition (TA) function across the Nordic region. The role acts as a strategic business partner, and is accountable for ensuring that Coors Nordic TA function has the talent, capabilities, and TA- infrastructure required to deliver its short- and long-term objectives.

The role drives the continuous improvement of recruitment quality, speed, and efficiency across the organisation, by following and improving lead times, as well as enhancing both candidate and hiring manager satisfaction. The role is also responsible for strengthening employer brand recognition, elevating talent attraction capabilities, and ensuring a consistent and high-quality recruitment experience across all markets and diversity of target groups.

Reporting directly to the CHRO and serving as a member of the HR Management Team, the Head of Talent Acquisition contributes to shaping the overall People Strategy while leading the transformation of Talent Acquisition into a proactive, data-driven, and business focused function. The role ensures that Talent Acquisition is positioned as an enabler of business growth, organisational performance, and workforce sustainability, with more than 3000 recruitments per year.

Key Responsibilities

Build and Lead the Talent Acquisition Function

• Develop and implement the overall Talent Acquisition vision, strategy, operating model, and roadmap.

• Establish and scale a high-performing Talent Acquisition organisation across the Nordic countries.

• Review capacity need of the function in line with recommended operating model, and define roles, responsibilities, governance structures, and ways of working.

Own the Talent Acquisition Agenda

• Ensure alignment between business strategy and talent acquisition priorities.

• Create structures for the function to partner with business leaders and local HR teams to proactively identify current and future talent needs.

• Develop a systematic approach to address critical skill shortages and changing labour market dynamics.

Drive Recruitment Excellence

• Review current recruitment processes, methodologies, tools, and standards across the Group.

• Continuously improve recruitment effectiveness, quality, and efficiency by implementing and following relevant KPIs.

• Ensure a consistent, compliant, and high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience.

• Monitor adherence to recruitment policies, governance frameworks, and legal requirements.

• Develop reporting frameworks and actionable insights that support business decision-making.

Lead Employer Branding and Talent Attraction

• Continue implementation and strengthening of Coor’s Employer Branding strategy.

• Long term, to build strategic partnerships with universities, professional networks, industry associations, and other talent channels.

Qualifications and Experience

Education

• University degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.

Experience

• Significant experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, or Human Resources, including leadership responsibilities, a minimum of 8-10 years.

• Excellent leadership track record, as you will lead a dedicated team of seven Talent Acquisition Specialists.

• Experience operating within a Nordic and/or international matrix environment.

• Proven ability in guiding and influencing decision makers.

Expertise

• Deep knowledge of Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding, Sourcing, Assessment, and Workforce Planning.

• Strong understanding of labour market trends and talent challenges across the Nordic region.

• Expertise in recruitment technology, analytics, and process optimisation.

• Strong commercial mindset and understanding of how talent acquisition contributes to business performance.

• Outstanding communication skills in Swedish, Danish or Norwegian, as well as English as your team is multi-cultural.

What we are looking for

To succeed in this role, you are a strategic and commercially minded HR- leader with a proven ability and documented experience to build and transform Talent Acquisition functions in complex, multi-site organisations.

As a leader, you build credibility and trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders. You foster strong collaboration between other HR functions, communications, marketing and business.

You thrive in a labour- intensive, fast-paced and data driven environment, ensuring high-quality execution, using modern TA-tools such as Jobylon.

Additionally, you are an exceptional communicator who can articulate a clear vision, influence at all levels of the organisation, and inspire others to achieve ambitious goals.

Leadership Competencies

Strategic Leadership • Business Acumen • Transformational Leadership • Stakeholder Management and Partnership • Data-Driven Decision Making • Influencing and Communication • Leadership and Team Development • Execution Excellence

About the employment

• Employment type: Permanent
• Employment level: 100% / Full-time
• Start date: As agreed.

Other information

We review applications on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to submit your application today.

We process personal data in accordance with the GDPR. We only accept applications submitted through our recruitment system, and all selection decisions are made through human assessment.

We kindly decline any approaches from advertising vendors and recruitment agencies in connection with this recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application!