HR Country Manager Sweden

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

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.