HR Business Partner - Sweden & UK

About Zacco

Zacco is one of Europe's leading IP consultancy firms, with more than 500 employees across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the UK, Germany, and India. We blend traditional intellectual property disciplines with cyber security and software development. Defined by a flat, collaborative Scandinavian work culture, we believe in freedom with responsibility and actively support the continuous development of our people.

Position Overview

In this standalone regional role, you will act as a trusted advisor to leaders in Sweden and the UK (190 employees) across the entire employee lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with Managers to drive the people agenda to support business priorities. You will work closely with a small, enthusiastic global HR team.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership Advisory & Culture: Coach and support line managers on team dynamics, talent pipelines, succession planning, and conflict resolution. Support Managers in maintaining a balanced work environment, psychological safety, and team engagement.
• Talent & Performance Management: Lead the end-to-end recruitment process (sourcing via LinkedIn/headhunters), design local onboarding, and manage performance cycles (goalsetting, feedback, rewards).
• Labor Relations & Compliance: Manage local union collaborations and end-to-end negotiations under the Nordic framework. Ensure absolute compliance with Swedish working environment acts (Arbetsmiljölagen / AML), LAS, MBL, Collective Bargaining Agreements (Kollektivavtal), and GDPR.
• HR Operations & Benefits: Be aware of and back-up local payroll preparation and administration when required. Partner with the pension broker and manage local pension schemes, health insurance, and company benefits while analyzing provider data to optimize future offerings.
• Change Management & Global Projects: Guide leaders through organizational changes, scaling operations, or potential M&A initiatives. Contribute to and implement global HR initiatives and cross-border projects.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyzing HR analytics, employee engagement figures, and trend data to proactively propose improvements that boost productivity and business results.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in human resources (Personalvetarprogrammet), Labor Law, Business Administration, or equivalent field.
• Experience: 10+ years of HR experience as an HRBP, ideally within a medium-sized company (200-500 employees) in Sweden.
• Labor Law Expertise: Deep operational mastery of Swedish labor laws (LAS, MBL, AML) and Collective Bargaining Agreements.
• Languages: Full professional fluency in both English (corporate language) and Swedish. Interviews will be conducted in both English and Swedish.
• Travel: Ability to travel quarterly to offices in Gothenburg and Malmö, and occasionally to other regional Swedish offices.

Core Competencies

• Operational Excellence: High attention to detail with a structured approach; views administration, data analytics and process improvement as vital for the business.
• Empathetic Integrity: Functions as a highly trusted advisor with strong integrity, who balances leadership support and coaching with strict accountability to legal and company policies.
• Autonomy: Confidently drives local HR processes forward independently without requiring constant oversight.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to join a collaborative and ambitious HR team, where your expertise will have a real impact and add value to our business. If you thrive in a role that combines working with everything HR, we would love to hear from you.

Why Join Zacco:
As an employee of Zacco, this means that you are employed in an international organization that offers many opportunities to participate in and develop projects and assignments across regions, cultures and countries.

Zacco offers an exciting environment in which employees can develop themselves and where you can learn from the best in the industry - and we are proud of both our experts and what we do at Zacco: We take care of all our clients' intellectual property rights, even those they don't know they have. We work proactively, often in tailor-made teams, to meet our clients' needs, and we have an ambitious and motivating work culture.

Zacco is characterized by a Scandinavian work culture. This means that Zacco has a flat organisational structure and that future employees can expect to be involved "from day one." They believe in freedom with responsibility and support flexibility in work, as long as it goes both ways. Zacco has a flexible working policy. This means that employees are expected to work from the office for 3 days per week. Zacco also encourages competence development, so that employees can stay up to date with changes in the industry and can continue to develop their skills. Zacco has more than 500 employees and has experts in all aspects of intellectual property law, including a large number of experienced Patent, Trademark and Design lawyers and attorneys and paralegals. Zacco's Head Office is in Copenhagen (Denmark) and has offices in Sweden, Norway, UK, Germany and India.