HR Specialist – UK & Nordics (Sweden, Denmark, Norway)

🚀 HR Specialist – UK & Nordics (Sweden, Denmark, Norway)

📄 Fixed Term Contract - 12 months

📍Hybrid London / Remote UK

We’re hiring an HR Specialist to support a growing international business across the UK and Nordics.

This is proper HR operations.

You’ll be running the day-to-day reality of people processes across multiple countries, advising on local regulations, and making sure the basics are done properly, every time.

If you like ownership and you’re comfortable working across different markets without everything being handed to you, this will suit you.

🌟 What You’ll Do:

• Act as the HR point of contact across the UK, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway
• Manage the full employee lifecycle, including contracts, system updates, and employment changes
• Own onboarding and local orientation, making sure new hires actually have a good start
• Manage offboarding and exit processes across all countries in scope
• Handle benefits enrolment, including pensions and insurance schemes
• Support rollout and review of benefits alongside Total Rewards
• Partner with Payroll to manage leave and absence processes, including parental leave
• Act as the first point of contact for employee and manager queries, covering policies, benefits, and employment setups
• Provide guidance on local labour law and employee relations, working with Legal where needed
• Support audits, compliance activities, health and safety, and mandatory reporting
• Challenge proposals from the business where needed, offering practical, compliant solutions
• Support expansion into new markets, including entity setup, store openings, and acquisitions
• Improve HR operations processes, aligning local execution with global frameworks
• Own and deliver regional HR projects, while contributing to global initiatives
• Continuously look for ways to improve how HR operates across countries
• Act as a point of contact for local authorities, including tax and social security bodies

🔍 What You Bring:

• Demonstrable experience in HR operations or people ops, ideally in a scale-up or multinational environment
• Strong knowledge of labour law and compliance in at least one of the markets (UK or Nordics)
• Experience working across multiple countries is a big advantage
• Hands-on approach, you’re comfortable owning processes end-to-end
• Experience with HR systems (Workday preferred)
• Strong Excel and Google Suite skills
• Solid stakeholder management, you can support and push back when needed
• High attention to detail and confidence handling sensitive information
• Fluent in English, additional Nordic languages are useful but not essential
• Experience in retail, labour relations, or project delivery is a plus

💡 Why This Role:

This is not a passive HR role.

You’ll be close to the business, working across multiple countries, and helping shape how HR operations scale properly.

If you want variety, ownership, and a bit of complexity rather than a neat, predictable role, this is it.

💬 Let’s Talk!

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with the chance to extend.

If this sounds like you, apply here or message me directly. Let’s chat! 👋