Director of People Digitalization

Strawberry is on a journey of transforming our People tech landscape. We are looking for a experienced and hands-on Director of People Digitalization to lead our People Systems & Digitalization team. 

The People Systems & Digitalization team serves as the business owner of our people technology, maintaining system support and master data quality. It’s also the home of our job architecture, compensation & benefit structures. Today, the team owns our HRIS and Time & Attendance systems (Workforce Management). The team also manages our data products and compensation & benefits frameworks. Working closely with tech, payroll and the rest of the people team, you’ll be responsible for planning, implementation, and governance of our entire People Tech Stack. You’ll ensure systems are robust, data quality is exceptional, and our digitalization roadmap drives business value for our hotels. 

The ideal candidate is a player-coach. You are ready to guide the team on this transformation journey, while also being willing to work hands on alongside your team. You’re pragmatic, with the ability to prioritize progress over perfection.

You’ll lead a newly established team and area within Strawberry, and play a central role in defining how we work. The role has 3 direct reports, 1 matrix report and one dedicated role from tech (people platform owner). You’ll report to the VP People Experience, and be located either in Oslo or Stockholm. You’ll need to travel between locations on a regular basis to be present for your distributed team. 

We will ask you to submit a CV. Instead of a cover letter, the application form have some free-text fields. 

Together with your team, you will work on:

• Strategy & change management: Work alongside the People platform owner from tech to build and plan the people tech roadmap. You will represent the People function in business cases and tender processes, and actively participate hands-on in People tech projects, including system design, configuration, testing, and data cleaning, to name a few. This role defines and owns the People-side business ownership of People Tech, including requirements, priorities, data quality and functional governance, while Tech owns the underlying platform architecture, integrations and technical delivery. You will also drive the change in workstreams related to communications, training and collaboration.
  
  
• High quality data and insights: You’ll own and safeguard People master data quality. You’ll serve as the internal advisor on data utilization for reporting and ensure full compliance with regulations (e.g., Pay parity, CSRD, ARP). Liaison with the DPO to ensure we have data privacy top of mind in all areas of our people tech. You’ll also drive strategic decision-making by collaborating with the data product team to deliver dashboards and insights.
  
  
• System Stability & Support: Ensure a stable and highly efficient support model for our HRIS and associated systems, managing vendors and contingency plans. You will use support data to drive system improvements (e.g., automation, training) and be prepared to provide first and second-line support when necessary.
  
  
• Comp & ben: Oversee and improve the annual Compensation & Benefits cycle with a range of stakeholders. You’ll focus on improving and automating processes, using system support where possible, standardizing, keeping policies up to date and improving how we communicate employee benefits.
  
  
• Job architecture and salary benchmarking: You’ll ensure we have an updated and well implemented job architecture, and professionalize how we use salary benchmarking and salary data.
  
  

We think your profile looks something like this: 

• Experience with people tech - owning, maintaining and/or implementing people systems in complex environments
• Experience driving change - project or program management, working on business cases, project plans and change management (training & comms)
• Experience working in agile environments - We learn as we go and get going rather than planning for every scenario
• Experience or interest in working with data products and/or comp & ben, including job architecture 
• Experience building services for a non-desk using workforce (We have more than 16.000 employees at our hotels!)
• Language: You don’t have to be fluent in Norwegian or Swedish, but we ask that you are on a journey to mastering one of the languages, and have a basic understanding of one of them. 
  
  

As a person and leader, we think you are:

• Pragmatic and collaborative - We are just beginning our people digitalization journey. We won’t be able to do everything at once, some of our systems don't speak well together yet, and we need to be smart about priorities and finding solutions with other teams
• Hands on - This role is a team member just as much as a team leader. You’ll have operative tasks and deliver together with the team 
• Improvement oriented - You see opportunities for wins and improvements 
• Coaching and teaching - You’re available to your team and stakeholders to raise knowledge about how we can work smart with people tech. You make difficult things easy and communicate in a way that's easy to understand. 
  
  

So, why should you work at Strawberry? 

• We’re a social and friendly team, and you’ll have energetic and caring people all around you, and many opportunities to socialize throughout the year.
• We dream big and aim high - we have big ambitions and are not afraid of taking a bit of risk.
• We have great employee benefits - Amazing discounts in our hotels and restaurants, and from external partners. 
• As a SuperColleague, you get 4 free hotel stays per year.
• Offices in Oslo or Solna, with lunch at a friendly price. 

... just to name a few.

Hope to see your name in the applications!