At KONE the People & Communications team enables business performance and competitiveness through engaged and capable people, strong reputation management, impactful internal and external communications and great employee experience. We bring KONE’s strategy to life, supporting competence, capability and culture development as well as strengthening the KONE purpose and company story for all our stakeholders. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of topics, while also working closely with our businesses, to help drive the People and Communications agenda.

Performance & Reward Specialist, Nordics

This is a great opportunity for a rewards specialist to join our team of professionals driving and developing Performance and Reward (P&R) policies and processes for KONE Nordics. We are now looking for a Performance & Reward Specialist, Nordics to join our team for a 12‑month fixed‑term position as a maternity leave replacement.

This role will be a key member of our Performance and Rewards Center of Excellence (CoE)and you will be reporting to the Performance & Reward Manager for Nordics.

As a P&R specialist Nordics, your main responsibilities include:

• Managekey annual P&R processes, including salary review, KONE bonus plan and performance management.

• Support in the execution and development of Performance & Reward processes, policies and practices across the Nordicsincluding employee training.

• Provide compensationand performance analytics, including reporting

• Support in pay transparency and pay equity activities and analyzes.

• Support in job evaluationand market benchmarking.

• Support in P&R-related Workday data, reports and processes, ensuring data quality and continuous improvement.

• Contribute to Nordics Performance&Rewardsprojects and policy development initiatives.

• Provide practical guidanceand support to People & Communicationsandother internalkeystakeholders

To be successful in this role:

• You are a team player, eager to learn and you are interested in working in an international, fast-paced and changing environment.

• Experience or strong interest in Performance & Reward, including compensation, benefits, performance management and/or recognition processes.

• Stronganalytical skills and attention to detailand ability to turn data into practical insights.

• Good communication and presentations skills.

• Excellent (verbal +written) English skills, Swedish language capability is a benefit.

• Business acumen to partner cross-border with key stakeholders in People and Culture and other internal stakeholders.

• Excellent MS Office and digital skills, previous experience in Workday is appreciated.

• Curiosity to learn more about Performance and Rewardsand willingness to contribute toimplementation in defined areas to support the wider P&RCoEteamtargetsand businessneeds

• You are not shy to ask questions and are curiousaboutfinding new ways of doing things, you embrace innovation and are able to come up with new ideas.
  

This position can be located either in KONE headquarters in Espoo, Finland or KONE Kista office in Stockholm, Sweden.

Want to #JoinOurFlow ?

If you think this could be an inspiring challenge for you, please tell us more about yourself and why you are interested in this specific role and submit your CV and application via our Careers site . Note that w e are screening applications as they come in and will fill the position as soon as we find a suitable candidate. The final deadline for sending your application is 12.8.2026.

If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact Niina Alander-Retkin, our Performance & Reward Manager for Nordics via mobile +358 407059848 on Thursday23rd ofJuly at 11-12 or Monday 10th of August at 12-13 or via email niina.alander-retkin@kone.com