People Operations Lead Denmark
Are you an experienced HR operations professional looking for a role where you can make a real impact? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment, balancing operational HR tasks with continuous improvements? Then this might be the opportunity for you!
About the Role
As the People Operations Lead Denmark, you will join a Nordic team committed to streamlining and ensuring delivery of intuitive and efficient people processes.
You will play a key role in ensuring smooth, efficient, and service-minded HR operations across our organization. Together with the other team members, you’ll be the go-to person for HR administration, employee life cycle processes, compliance, and HR system improvements. Your focus will be on delivering high-quality HR support while also identifying opportunities to optimize and standardize the way we work.
This role is for you with solid HR experience, and who understand the complexities of HR processes in a matrix organization and are comfortable working in a structured yet evolving environment with many stakeholders. Although the role doesn’t imply direct personnel responsibility, this role is for you, who enjoy hand-on operational work, and who is used to or would like to try having an extra responsibility vis-à-vis your team members.
What You’ll Do
- Provide day-to-day HR operational support throughout the employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding
- Ensure correct and timely master data in our HR systems
- Act as 1-line legal support on HR policies, practices, collective and local agreements to ensure compliance
- Advice and support in relation to sick leave
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and/or improve HR processes and systems, and ensure a smooth transition from HR projects to effective operation
- Be a super user in our HR systems, and provide systems operation of HR wheel process
- Coordinate day-to-day operations with the Danish team (without direct personnel responsibility)
Why Join Us?
At GlobalConnect, we’re building the digital infrastructure that connects the Nordics, and our People & Culture team is essential in supporting this mission. Based in Copenhagen, you’ll work closely with colleagues across the Nordics in a role where structure meets innovation.
We offer an engaging work environment, where some tasks have a country specific scope, yet still we work closely together in the whole Nordic People & Culture team to stay aligned, share challenges and insights, celebrate success, and support one another.
Whether you’re conducting day-to-day operational support or helping refine our people processes, you’ll contribute with your expertise and be making an important impact every step of the way, as we continue to evolve and improve our processes, tools, and collaboration.
To Thrive in This Role, You Need
We’re looking for you who love to be part of a journey—building, transforming, and adapting as we grow and mature. Here’s what will set you up for success:
- Extensive experience in HR operations within a Nordic or international matrix organization
- A strong understanding of HR processes, systems, and compliance, and experience with HRIS systems (SAP SuccessFactors or similar)
- In-depth knowledge of Danish labour and employment law and hands-on practice applying it in day-to-day operations
- An eye for getting the details right and a highly developed sense of quality
- Great communication and interpersonal skills and a service minded approach
- Fluency in English and Danish (other Nordic languages are a plus)
- Knowledge of payroll is an advantage, though not a prerequisite
We are looking forward to receiving your application!
