Senior P&O Business Partner, Business Partners

Are you an expert at influencing leaders to take the right people decisions, enabling good leadership, high engagement and people performance? Is it meaningful for you to be part of corporate functions leadership, implementing the strategic Group people agenda, collaborating across borders and promoting organisational change?

We are strengthening our People & Organization team and are looking for a Senior People & Organization Business Partner who will partner as a trusted advisor and courageous advocate to senior leaders in Business Partners (corporate functions) in COWI.

Enable leadership growth and deliver strategic people partnership
In the role as Senior People & Organization Business Partner, you will work closely with the senior leaders in Group IT (one SVP), and Group and Business Finance functions (6 SVP’s) to enable good leadership, team engagement, people performance management and organizational governance, making a significant impact on our business outcomes. You will report to the Head of P&O for Business Partners and will be based in Lyngby, working together with the broader global P&O team in COWI's global locations. COWI is undergoing the largest transformation in our history which means that the role will evolve and provide opportunities for growth for the candidate with the right capabilities and mindset.

Apply your skills to create a positive change and business impact
As Senior People & Organization Business Partner at COWI, you will be responsible for implementing our Group people agenda together with the senior leadership teams. You will also be a strategic sparring partner to the Senior Vice Presidents in Group IT and Finance, lending your ear and using your expert P&O insights to enable them in their leadership and facilitate drive required organisational changes as a trusted partner.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Work with leaders and be an effective partner in solving complex organisational challenges using your strategic P&O partnering experience and ability to bring broader perspectives into play, and drive organizational change initiatives and projects, ensuring strong implementation from a P&O perspective.
• Anchor leadership pipeline behaviours and promote solid leadership performance. Sparring and advising SVP’s on conflict resolution, engagement, team development and organisational design/structure.
• Promote, implement and ensure execution of annual people processes, including engagement process, people review, succession planning, talent management and performance management.
• Collaborate with P&O teams in relevant geographies and our Centres of Excellence such as Global Talent Acquisition, Global Rewards and Mobility and Global People Insights and Services for design and delivery of global initiatives. 25% of the Senior P&O BP role is committed to working on P&O development projects together with CoE’s.
• Be the point of contact to our P&O colleagues in Lithuania where Finance and Group IT have a high employee footprint, representing all Business Partner (corporate) functions, to ensure aligned delivery of people processes and partnering to senior leaders.
• Ensure organisational governance around cores processes, encouraging leaders understand and act according to COWI standards.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future
The first step to growth in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you:

• Hold a master's degree in business, HR, leadership and organisation, or a related field.
• Have demonstrated experience in driving organisational change together with senior leaders.
• Have demonstrated experience delivering positive impact as a strategic HR/P&O Business Partner to senior leaders, as trusted advisor and courageous advocate.
• Have demonstrated experience in enabling good leadership, engagement, people performance and organisational governance, in a multinational context.
• Have a keen interest in understanding business operations and translating business needs into meaningful people and organisation advice and actions.
• Are able to work at a relatively high complexity level in a matrix organisation, and craft and implement simple, structured and high-quality solutions together with leaders.
• Work individually and collaboratively with high trust and mandate, which you use to move your priorities forward proactively, as part of a small and powerful team, and as part of a larger P&O network of functional expertise and colleagues in- and outside Denmark
• Are fluent in written and spoken English. Danish is not a requirement.

The preferred start date for this role is as soon as possible.

A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. That is why we say no to fossil-based projects and aspire to have 100 per cent of our revenue come from activities that move our customers towards sustainability.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we are currently 8,000 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

Do you have any questions?
If you have questions or would like further information on the position, please reach out to Annika Rathje, Head of P&O, Business Partners at [email protected] or Amit Nayyar, Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at [email protected]
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key.
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.
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Location: Lyngby