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Job Description

Region Östergötland is responsible for healthcare, regional development, and public transport. We aim to create good and attractive living conditions for residents. The most extensive activity is to provide quality healthcare, including dental care.

Are you an experienced negotiation manager with a clear drive for development and the ability to navigate complex employer issues? In this role, you will have the opportunity to influence and further develop Region Östergötland's strategic HR work through proactive leadership, professional support, and collaboration with both trade unions and operations. Do you want to help shape the future of employer policy? Then this could be the role for you! 

Responsibilities

The negotiation manager manages, directs, and develops employer policy, which includes the development of wage formation, agreements, and conditions. The role includes ensuring a cohesive direction, interpretation, and application regarding the region's employer policy and laws, agreements, and regulations within labor law.

As a negotiation manager, your task is to independently represent Region Östergötland in central negotiations and discussions.

• You lead the work on conditions and wage formation issues.
• You are an advisor and expert in labor law matters.
• You drive and develop processes within your area.
• You are responsible for training initiatives within wage formation and labor law in the organization.

Presentations in management groups and political bodies occur. You represent Region Östergötland in contacts with the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions and other employer representatives both within regions and other organizations.

The negotiation manager's responsibilities include the following areas/processes:

• Wage formation and wage review process, conditions issues, labor law, rehabilitation process with work-oriented rehabilitation, transition, pension issues from a strategic perspective, union relations, and collaboration.
• As the operational manager for the region's common HR function, you are part of the HR director's management team along with the operational managers for Operational HR and HR Education, with the goal that the development of HR work contributes to strategic shifts and the organization's goals.
• You are the manager of the unit managers for the HR specialist unit, Negotiation unit, and Salary and Pension unit, as well as four HR strategists. You are responsible for the unit's mission, finances, and work environment.

More information:

In this recruitment, Region Östergötland collaborates with Randstad. Please submit your application by 2025-04-14. Selection and interviews will take place continuously. 

If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Adam Bernhoff.

When you formally apply, it may be assessed as a public document. For an initial confidential dialogue regarding the position, please contact the responsible recruitment consultant Adam Bernhoff at adam.bernhoff@randstad.se 

Union contacts:

Camilla Berlin, Vision tel. 010-103 86 19

Peter Hallberg, Saco tel. 010-103 05 65

For us, it is important that all competencies in the labor market are utilized. We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity.

Welcome to submit your application!

Qualifications

• We are looking for someone with education in HR or another academic qualification that the employer deems equivalent.
• You have at least five years of negotiation experience in labor law and wage formation within the public sector and feel confident in other HR areas.
• You have a very good ability to communicate in Swedish, both spoken and written.
• We consider it an advantage if you have experience as a negotiation manager or negotiator in a larger public organization and have previous managerial experience.
• It is advantageous if you have experience from a politically governed organization. 

As a person, you are secure, stable, and structured.

You take responsibility for your task and have the courage to act based on your convictions and collaborate before decisions.

You communicate clearly and ensure that your message is received. You create contacts and maintain relationships.

You have a good ability to see how your role and actions affect others in the organization and prioritize the organization's best interests in decisions.

You are driven to empower colleagues, allow employees to grow, and together create the best results.

About the company

REGION ÖSTERGÖTLAND

For life ahead. Region Östergötland has high ambitions and a responsible mission. It is about health and care, about our region's development, and about those who live and stay here. We want to be at the forefront, with care, research, and education. This means daring to think anew and having the best employees. Therefore, we offer unique opportunities for further learning and invest in modern environments with effective systems and tools. Many of us meet patients and relatives, while others create the conditions for life-saving interventions. With us, fantastic people work towards the same goal – to make a real difference, and for life ahead. Region Östergötland's HR organization has about 100 employees who provide qualified support both close to operations and centrally to management. Many of our HR employees work closely with managers in the region's operations. Within the organization, there is also a team of HR strategists, a unit with specialists in competence supply, a negotiation unit, and a salary administration unit. A central support and service unit provides daily support to employees and managers. Within the HR organization, there is also an education area. We offer an exciting and varied job at the region's largest employer. In this role, you have access to broad networks and good opportunities for personal development. Your workplace is at the Region House in Linköping. Please read about your benefits with us. https://www.regionostergotland.se/ro/jobb-och-utbildning/dina-formaner (https://www.regionostergotland.se/ro/jobb-och-utbildning/dina-formaner)