Head of Leadership and Succession
About The Position
Nordic Investin is recruiting a Head of Leadership and Succession on behalf of one of our partner companies. The partner is strengthening its capability in leadership pipelines and succession decisions for critical roles. You will take responsibility for work that connects succession planning, executive assessment and talent reviews, while ensuring that development portfolios and governance receive appropriate discipline. The objective is progress that colleagues can use and leaders can evaluate. The people function combines employee experience, reliable judgement, usable processes and respect for sensitive information.
Requirements
- Relevant experience delivering leadership pipelines and succession decisions for critical roles in a demanding environment.
- Strong working knowledge of succession planning and executive assessment.
- Practical experience applying talent reviews and development portfolios.
- Ability to assess risk, priorities and trade-offs involving governance.
- Evidence of clear stakeholder communication and dependable end-to-end ownership.
- Professional English and the judgement to work with sensitive or business-critical information.
Nice To Haves
- Experience from large international organisations.
- Exposure to board reporting in a cross-functional environment.
- Swedish language skills or experience working across Nordic organisations.
- A background that can succeed here
- Your background may be in-house, advisory, shared services or consulting. What matters is how you owned decisions, balanced needs and changed outcomes. Direct experience of leadership pipelines and succession decisions for critical roles is valuable, while adjacent experience counts when it shows transferable judgement.
Responsibilities
- Own the practical direction for leadership pipelines and succession decisions for critical roles.
- Translate goals and constraints into a clear approach for succession planning and executive assessment.
- Establish useful standards, routines or artefacts around talent reviews.
- Coordinate stakeholders and dependencies affecting development portfolios.
- Use evidence and measurable outcomes to improve governance.
- Strengthen knowledge sharing, decision quality and sustainable ownership across the team.
Benefits
- The exact partner, employment model, compensation, start date and working arrangement will be explained openly during the process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
