Nordic Investin is recruiting a Senior HR Business Partner Commercial on behalf of one of our partner companies. You care about people work that is commercially aware, fair and useful in practice, and you build trust without avoiding difficult decisions.

The partner is strengthening its capability in strategic people partnership for sales, marketing and customer organisations. You will take responsibility for work that connects workforce planning, leadership coaching and performance, while ensuring that organisation design and talent reviews receive appropriate discipline. The objective is progress that colleagues can use and leaders can evaluate.

The people function combines employee experience, reliable judgement, usable processes and respect for sensitive information.

How you will work

You will work close to leaders and remain visible to the wider organisation. The role requires sound judgement about when to coach, when to challenge and when a formal process must take priority. Commitments should be followed through and difficult messages should remain clear and respectful.

This role calls for independent judgement and the ability to raise the quality around you. You will be expected to recognise when a decision needs wider expertise, make trade-offs visible and move work forward without creating unnecessary process.

What you will do

• Own the practical direction for strategic people partnership for sales, marketing and customer organisations.

• Translate goals and constraints into a clear approach for workforce planning and leadership coaching.

• Establish useful standards, routines or artefacts around performance.

• Coordinate stakeholders and dependencies affecting organisation design.

• Use evidence and measurable outcomes to improve talent reviews.

• Strengthen knowledge sharing, decision quality and sustainable ownership across the team.

What you will bring

• Relevant experience delivering strategic people partnership for sales, marketing and customer organisations in a demanding environment.

• Strong working knowledge of workforce planning and leadership coaching.

• Practical experience applying performance and organisation design.

• Ability to assess risk, priorities and trade-offs involving talent reviews.

• Evidence of clear stakeholder communication and dependable end-to-end ownership.

• Professional English and the judgement to work with sensitive or business-critical information.

Experience that would add value

• Experience from commercial organisations or international business units.

• Exposure to change in a cross-functional environment.

• Swedish language skills or experience working across Nordic organisations.

A background that can succeed here

Your background may be in-house, advisory, shared services or consulting. What matters is how you owned decisions, balanced needs and changed outcomes. Direct experience of strategic people partnership for sales, marketing and customer organisations is valuable, while adjacent experience counts when it shows transferable judgement.

What makes the opportunity interesting

The role offers scope to shape how the organisation handles people questions and turn insight into practical improvements. The focus on strategic people partnership for sales, marketing and customer organisations gives the role a clear mission and room to influence priorities and measures of success.

The exact partner, employment model, compensation, start date and working arrangement will be explained openly during the process. Nordic Investin will make sure you understand the opportunity before asking you to make a decision.

The recruitment conversation

Nordic Investin will focus on decisions you have made: the context, alternatives, result and what you would change today. You will also have room to test whether the role and partner environment are right for you.

How to apply

Apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile and a short note about a relevant organisation, people service or workforce challenge you improved. Nordic Investin welcomes different routes into the profession and assesses evidence, judgement and potential alongside titles.