HR Generalist

Craft:
HR & Business Support

Job Description:
Are you a curious, passionate and result oriented HR operations professional, with an eye for details, data and employee relation matters? Who gets a kick out of working commercially with HR operations whilst collaborating with your stakeholders and peers? Do you thrive on providing a complete cycle of HR services, managing local HR operations, cyclical people processes and driving people priorities and establishing a trusted partnership with business leaders? If so, this could be the ideal role for you

We are hiring an
HR Generalist
for Sweden based at our Malmö office in King. Reporting to a Senior People Director you will be a key individual of the People Team, with responsibilities for executing business strategies across the end-to-end employee life cycle. These will have particular focus on performance management, and employee engagement whilst ensuring that Kings stay compliant for all people matters required in Sweden.

You will lead on HR advisory topics therefore you should have a strong local jurisdictional knowledge and the ability to ensure that all required elements of an employment are followed and delivered successfully.

You will be an essential part of the region community and a culture ambassador in all you do. A passionate role model for our Values, and a go-to person for Managers and Kingsters on the location.

Your role within our Kingdom
Business Partnering

• Advises on HR policies, processes, and regional requirements, and provides guidance to HR Advisors and Employee Experience teams on complex topics such as sickness and parental leave, ensuring adherence to local employment laws.
• Demonstrates strong collaboration skills and a clear desire to be an active, supportive member of the HR team. Works in close partnership with the HR Lead, contributing reliably, openly, and with a solutions-focused mindset
• Supports and manages cases related to areas such as performance management, employee relations, rewards, absence, probation, and others
• Conducts one-on-one coaching with managers on performance management and development-related processes based on established training agenda and communication plans; conducts or designs training sessions/events for employees and managers.
• Use your energy, HR expertise and business acumen to establish a trusted partnership with a wide range and diverse set of business leaders, coaching, advising and supporting them with their people plans, talent needs and employee relations support

HR projects

• Uses data to participate in identifying and anticipating training needs within a business, region, or geography; recommends customized solutions (e.g., training, communication) to address capability gaps, and coordinates and/or delivers training.
• Structure and modernise our HR Operations by using machine learning and ai.
• Leads the design and implementation of local HR projects or programs
• Maintain awareness of local employment laws and take an active role in updating local policies, educating managers and work with peers in HR and legal on these update

HR
Operations

• Use your strong data skills to be able to determent, create and track relevant OKRs and KPI throughout the year
• Own and manage HR data for your location and your business units, delivering insights and metrics (e.g., turnover, retention, compensation) to inform decisions.
• Maintain employee data in Workday and personal files, identifying opportunities to improve data management practices, and ways of working with HR Advisors and our global Employee Experience team
• Support the HR Lead to drive organizational development, re-design, change management in your areas. Through strong project management and communications skills.
• You will have a growth mindset, prioritize your own growth and development and be curious about understanding and driving external benchmarks across both functional and HR areas.

Operational compliance

• Be a trusted labor law advisors for your business
• Work closely with HR Centre's of Expertise (CoE) to resolve complex and challenging problems through innovative and agile thinking
• Identifies, raises, or escalates issues for trends in employee relations; works with their team to implement solutions to reduce employee relations issues for a business, region, or geography by collaborating with Human Resources and business partners (i.e., managers and employees).
• Champion our values and culture, being a role model for these and supporting the continual embedding of them in everything we do.

Skills to create thrills:

• Demonstrated track record of international HR Business Partner excellence, in partnership.
• Has a seriously playful, warm, and fun personality that brings positive energy to every interaction.
• Thrives in a fast paced, diverse and creative environment
• Clear and strong business impact skills
• A strong commercial profile with a passion for data
• Results orientated combined with a high level of goal-oriented approach
• Change agent - the skills and desire to change the status quo for the better. These should include the ability to manage all elements of organizational transformation, facilitation and training.
• Employee Relations, use knowledge to coach and advise managers and drive necessary actions
• Mediation skills, understands and assesses risks for the business and guides managers  in support of conflict resolution.
• Knowledge of relevant employment legislation and labor law is a must
• Excellent project managing skills – experience of supporting or facilitating cyclical people processes and projects
• Communication – Use simple, engaging and appropriate ways to influence and communicate. Understand your strengths and style and know how to flex this in order to influence and have the right business impact
• Data driven with a high proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. You should be able to use data to demonstrate insights, inform decisions and visualize it to influence others through storytelling
• Any experience from AI tools and how to evolve The HR practice into a new future.
• Brings solid experience navigating stakeholder management and handling operational tasks within a large corporate environment.
• Fluent in business Swedish and English (written and spoken) essential.

Bonus skills:

• Bachelors qualified, (King will consider experience as an alternative)
• Experience from Digital, Entertainment or Technology companies
• Experience partnering multiple business functions across technology platforms and studio creative teams

About King
With a mission of
Making the World Playful
, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as
Farm Heroes Sag
a. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.