Sulzer

HR Country Manager Sweden

Sulzer  •  Mölndal, SE (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Sulzer is a leading engineering company with a proud heritage of innovation. Join our global team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.

About the role

Join Sulzer Sweden to build the future of HR. Lead the transformation of HR foundations, harmonize practices across legal entities, and create a modern, compliant and efficient HR function supporting approximately 300 employees.

The HR Manager Sweden will lead the transformation of HR across Sweden. The role will modernize HR operations, harmonize practices across legal entities, strengthen governance and compliance, and build a scalable HR function that enables business growth while ensuring an outstanding employee and manager experience.

Your Main Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Assess the current HR landscape and identify compliance, process, and governance gaps.
  • Simplify, standardize and digitize HR processes, including modernization of the payroll.
  • Build a data-driven HR function with measurable business impact.
  • Build capability for the future.
  • Ensure full compliance with Swedish labour law, collective agreements, and internal regulations.
  • Partner effectively with business leaders during a period of change and transformation.
  • Balance strategic thinking with willingness to personally execute operational work.
  • Challenge legacy practices and implement sustainable solutions.
  • Support organization in Employee Life Cycle stages with focus on talent attraction, employee engagement, performance management, recognition, career, and successor planning.
  • Leading, coaching, developing, and motivating local HR team

To succeed in this role, you will need

  • Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • Several years of experience in HR
  • Strong understanding of Swedish labour law, employee relations, personnel benefits. Hands-on in managing compliance cases
  • Experience in multinational environments is an asset.
  • IT competency with varied ERP, payroll, and other digital tools.
  • Fluent in Swedish and English.

What we offer you

  • Friskvårdsbidrag 3000kr/år (E-passi)
  • Collea – Gratis pension och försäkringsrådgivning
  • Företagshälsovård med regelbundna hälsokontroller

Sulzer is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in the strength of a diverse workforce and are committed to offering an inclusive work environment.

We are proud to be recognized as a Top Employer 2026 in Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Switzerland, South Africa, the UK and the USA.

Sulzer

About Sulzer

Sulzer is a global leader in critical applications for core infrastructure and processes for large essential industries around the world. We ensure the security, quality and durability of critical goods and services by supporting energy security, natural resource management and efficiencies in process industries. This in turn supports the transition to a circular economy. Our integrated solutions add significant value by enabling energy efficiency, carbon emissions and pollution reduction, and process efficiency improvements. Customers benefit from our commitment to innovation, performance and quality through our responsive network of 160 world-class manufacturing facilities and service centers across the globe. Sulzer has been headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland, since 1834. In 2023, our 13’130 employees delivered revenues of CHF 3.3 billion. Our shares are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: SUN). www.sulzer.com

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Winterthur, CH
Year Founded
1834
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