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Do you want to work close to the operations and make a real difference in occupational health and safety issues where it really matters? Then the role of HR Specialist Occupational Health and Safety at Axfood might be right for you.

About Axfood
Axfood is one of the largest players in the grocery industry, operating chains such as Willys, Hemköp, Axfood Snabbgross, City Gross, and Eurocash. The group employs approximately 15,000 people and has a turnover of around 80 billion SEK. They aim to create more quality of life for everyone they touch through their various concepts, operations, and brands. They believe in continuous improvement and development, and in showing care for the environment while adapting to change.

Join us on a journey in an exciting industry where innovation, engagement, and affordable, good, and sustainable food are key ingredients. Welcome to the Axfood family!

About the role
As an HR Specialist Occupational Health and Safety, you will be part of a group-wide HR team at Axfood, working closely with the HR Specialist for Occupational Health and Safety and Health. Together, you will contribute to a coordinated, uniform, and professional occupational health and safety effort across the entire group.

You will work closely with the HR organizations of the store chains but also, to some extent, directly with the operations. The role is about supporting, guiding, and driving the occupational health and safety work forward by making it work in practice.

The focus is on developing and driving the systematic occupational health and safety work (SAM), strengthening the reporting culture regarding incidents and accidents, and working with concrete risk areas in stores.

As part of the assignment, you will contribute to creating a more uniform and functional systematic occupational health and safety work within stores in collaboration with HR, operations, and safety within the stores. This is a role for you who want to be close to the operations, build trust, and drive change through knowledge, clarity, and collaboration. The role reports to the Head of Negotiation and Compensation.

Your main responsibilities:

• Guide the store chains on how to comply with legal requirements as well as Axfood's internal guidelines, routines, and processes regarding occupational health and safety.
• Drive and develop the systematic occupational health and safety work (SAM) in stores.
• Support and guide managers on occupational health and safety issues related to the physical work environment.
• Contribute to risk assessments, safety rounds, and investigations of accidents and near-misses.
• Increase the reporting rate and improve work related to incident management.
• Collaborate with HR, operations, safety, and other functions on occupational health and safety issues.
• Support and/or participate in inspections by the Swedish Work Environment Authority and follow-ups thereof.
• Contribute to training initiatives and workshops within the occupational health and safety area.

About you
To succeed in this role, you have solid experience working with physical occupational health and safety in an operationally close environment, for example within retail, logistics, production, or similar. You are used to supporting managers and translating regulations into concrete working methods that work in everyday life.

You thrive in an operational role where you get to be close to the operations and make a difference by creating structure, clarity, and momentum. You have a good understanding of the business's prerequisites and know how to build trust with managers and other internal stakeholders.

As a person, you are confident in your specialist role, unpretentious in your working style, and have a natural ability to collaborate with different types of functions. You are clear in your communication and have the ability to both support and set requirements when necessary.

Important for the role:

• Several years of experience in similar roles with a focus on physical occupational health and safety.
• Experience from operationally close environments such as retail, logistics, production, or similar.
• Good knowledge of systematic occupational health and safety work.
• Strong execution ability to drive initiatives and projects from start to goal and implementation.
• Experience with incident reporting – preferably in the IA system.
• Good communication skills in Swedish and English.
• Class B driver's license and the ability to travel to some extent in the course of the job.

Merits:

• Experience of collaboration with trade unions.
• Experience of conducting training or workshops.

Axfood's offer
At Axfood, you become part of an organization with a strong brand, clear values, and a culture where people thrive and develop. Here you get the opportunity to work close to the operations in a role where you make a concrete difference in everyday life.

In this role, you will benefit from collective agreements, occupational pension, wellness contributions, and employee discounts. The role is based at Axfood's headquarters in Stockholm with the possibility of some remote work.

Other details
Start date: By agreement
Extent: Full-time, 100%
Location: Stockholm
Salary: By agreement

Does the role of HR Specialist Occupational Health and Safety at Axfood sound interesting? Submit your application today – we at Needo look forward to hearing from you!