Senior People Operations Specialist

Senior People Operations Specialist

Application Deadline: Sept. 7, 2025

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Do you want to work with HR processes in one of the world’s largest banks?

One of our colleagues will be on leave, creating an exciting opportunity for a temporary assignment from November 2025 to February 2027.

At Santander Nordics, we work with the best people in an engaged, challenging and passionate organisation that provides excellent opportunities for advancement.

As Senior People Operations Specialist, you will contribute to maintaining effective and service-oriented HR operations throughout our organisation. You’ll be the go-to expert for HR administration, local employment act, employee life cycle processes, compliance, and HR system improvements. Your focus will be on delivering high-quality HR support while also identifying opportunities to optimize and standardize the way we work.

This role is for you with solid HR experience, and who understand the complexities of HR processes in a matrix organization and are comfortable working in a structured yet evolving environment with many stakeholders.

The Senior People Operations Specialist will be working across the Nordics while having a specific responsibility for Sweden. Additionally, the Senior People Operations Specialist will have one or more responsibilities within the P&C Ops agenda based on your competence and the company need.

The position reports to Head of HR Operations.

Key accountabilities

• Provide expert day-to-day HR operational support throughout the employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding. Ensure compliance with local laws, regulations, company policies, and collective and local agreements.
• HR administration across the Nordics.
• Ensure 100% data accuracy in HR tools such as Workday and act as coordinator between local IT team & Santander Grupo on system- related queries.
• Support with reporting and analytics tasks.
• Conduct People & Culture Operations welcoming session for new employees.
• Create and maintain guides, policies and handbooks and act as an advisor on HR policies and practices.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and/or improve HR processes and systems and ensure a smooth transition from HR projects to effective operation.
• Lead and coordination responsibility within the People Operations deliverables for your specific scope.

In this role you’ll combine effective HR administration with a service-minded approach towards colleagues, employees and leaders.

Skills & Requirements

Your profile

• Experience from working with employment law across the Nordics.
• Proven minimum 5 years' experience as HR/People Operations Specialist, HR Generalist and/or HRBP.
• Experience in HR Systems (Workday), technologies and tools.
• In dept knowledge of HR governance, labour laws and regulations for Sweden.
• Experience from international/ multicultural working environment.
• Project experience from working lean/ process improvement/ tool implementation/ project management.

As HR professional you character yourself as

• Reliable, agile and a team player.
• Organized & structured, knows how to prioritize what is important.
• Self-driven and able to commit to deadlines.
• Enjoys high tempo and see changes as opportunity to improvements.
• Tech-savvy and understands the value of details.
• Able to lift a challenge into common solution in collaboration within the team.

What we offer

An opportunity to work in a large, high-performing international company and in a dynamic environment that is constantly developing. Being part of a highly competent, dedicated, and friendly People & Culture team with strong collaboration across the Nordics.

Santander strives for diversity in which our employees background, experience, knowledge and personalities enrich the business.

Interested?

You’re welcome to apply for this position as soon as possible and the application deadline is September 7th.

The position may require completion of a Suitability Assessment, including police certificate of good conduct and credit check. The assessment is not carried out without prior consent of the candidate and relevant candidates will be informed during the recruitment process.

About the company

We are a Nordic bank with more than 1,200 colleagues in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and proud to be part of Banco Santander, one of the largest banks in the world with a solid history going back more than 160 years.

Our purpose is to help people and businesses prosper and we aim to be the best retail and commercial bank, earning the lasting loyalty of our people, customers, shareholders and communities - through simple, personal and fair banking.

In our organization we foster and value an engaged, challenging and passionate environment that provides opportunities for personal and professional growth. We operate in an ever changing environment, and believe the key to success is innovative involvement, a playful approach to active learning and continuous improvement in our daily work.

We are firmly committed to being a responsible bank in the way we operate, our culture, caring for our environment and giving back to society. Banco Santander is recognized as the most sustainable bank in the world following the publication of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for 2019.

Read more about responsible banking on our global webpages.

Santander Consumer Bank is one of the largest Nordic banks providing loans and credits, credit cards, deposits and insurance to private customers.

To learn more about Santander in the Nordics, please visit our local webpages

https://www.santanderconsumer.no/

https://www.santanderconsumer.se/om-oss/

https://santanderconsumer.dk/om-os/

https://www.santanderconsumer.fi/

Contact Person

Madeleine Tefre Rydholt

[email protected]