Head of Negotiation, HR Department Region Värmland

Are you an experienced negotiation manager with a strong drive for development and the ability to navigate complex employer issues? In this role, you will have the opportunity to influence and further develop strategic HR work in collaboration with HR colleagues, other departments within Region Värmland, and in cooperation with trade unions. Do you want to help shape the future of employer policy? Then this could be the role for you! **Your Responsibilities** As a negotiation manager, you will represent the employer in legal matters, both operational and overarching strategic in nature. You play a key role in the HR organization and can replace the HR director when necessary. Together with your team, you will develop guidelines and action plans, provide qualified advice to the organization and colleagues, and drive and participate in development work. Your tasks will also include working with areas such as labor disputes, negotiations, salary formation, and employee benefits. The assignment also includes ensuring a unified direction, interpretation, and application of laws, agreements, and regulations in the field of labor law. As negotiation manager, you will independently represent Region Värmland in negotiations and discussions, including on behalf of the employer towards organizations such as SKR. This is an important role in further strengthening our employer brand and creating a trusting collaborative climate within the organization, with politicians, managers, union representatives, and employees. As negotiation manager, you are also the unit manager for the Working Conditions Unit, which is part of the HR department in Region Värmland. You will be responsible for the overall work with negotiation issues, salary formation, labor law, and working environment. You will lead a unit with negotiators and HR strategists, comprising a total of five employees. You will lead the unit with trust in your employees and have a coaching approach. Together with your team, you will develop, improve, and streamline operations, aiming for digitization and a forward-thinking working method. As a unit manager, you will be accountable for personnel, budget, and operations. **We Offer** We exist to ensure that everyone in Värmland is well and that Region Värmland is an attractive workplace that delivers good, sustainable, and long-term results. To succeed in this, we believe that all managers and leaders play an important role. In Region Värmland, we employ the leadership concepts of Developing Leadership and Indirect Leadership. As a new manager in the region, you will participate in a training program during your first year. We also offer individual coaching to support you in your role. We aim to provide our managers with the right conditions for success. Through you as a manager, our employees can grow and contribute to even better service for everyone living here. **Your Qualifications and Competencies** To succeed in this role, you have a holistic perspective and work for the benefit of the organization and the residents of Värmland. You are self-assured and utilize your strengths maturely. Valuable qualities for this role include the ability to make things comprehensible and to build trusting relationships with unions, management, and politicians. You have experience as a manager and possess good communication skills. The role of negotiation manager is complex from both an organizational and operational perspective, so we expect you to have broad and deep experience in labor law and salary formulation. You should be able to see the big picture, easily understand the needs of various stakeholders, and enjoy switching between strategic and operational tasks. You should possess pedagogical abilities to pass on knowledge. You hold an academic degree in HR or a comparable academic background, along with senior experience in the field—labor law, salary formation, labor negotiations, and interpretation of laws and agreements. It is an advantage if you have experience from public and politically controlled operations, as well as knowledge and experience in pension and insurance solutions, investigative and analytical work, or project management. Selection is ongoing, so we welcome your application today! **About Region Värmland** We exist to ensure that all who live here are well and that our region is attractive and competitive. We make a difference in health care, dental care, public transportation, regional development, and culture and education. We encounter people during life’s major moments and in all the everyday moments in between. Our vision is world-class quality of life. Read more about what it’s like to work with us at https://regionvarmland.se/regionvarmland/jobb-utbildning--forskning/jobba-med-oss/vara-formaner, and follow us on social media. Do you also want to work for everyone in Värmland? We look forward to receiving your application. **Miscellaneous** In connection with a potential employment, we may ask you, as an applicant, to provide a certificate from the police’s criminal record. Before employment in psychiatric care, care for individuals with disabilities, or care for children or young people, the employer conducts a check in the police's suspicion and criminal record. An entry in this record may affect your employability. If you have