HR Manager, People & Leader Advisory - Nordics (Fixed Term)

Job Description

Are you passionate about partnering with leaders and helping organizations thrive through people? Do you enjoy navigating complex employee situations while influencing business outcomes in a dynamic, global environment? If so, we'd love to hear from you. Join our team as an HR Manager, People & Leader and play a key role in supporting business leaders and employees across Thomson Reuters in Finland and the Nordics. In this role, you will provide strategic and operational HR partnership, guide leaders through people-related decisions, and contribute to initiatives that drive engagement, performance, and organizational effectiveness. 

You will be the trusted advisor and escalation point for managers, employees, and HR Business Partners across the Nordics. You will provide support for Finland, Norway, and Denmark as well as closely collaborating with the HR team in Sweden and the CEMA region. 

This is a fixed-term role covering a parental leave for at least 12 months, ideally starting January 2027.  

Key Responsibilities

• Advise and coach managers and employees on Employee Relations, performance management, bonus/pay reviews, talent management, absence, terminations, and complex people decisions, acting as the Tier 2 escalation point. 

• Deliver local HR cycles (performance, talent, engagement surveys, pay and bonus) on time and consistently, with the HR specialist teams. 

• Advises first to middle management in medium to higher complexity of Employee Relations activity. 

• Lead investigations and grievances that are fair, confidential, and compliant.  

• Contribute to strategic people initiatives in a global organization. 

• Develop in-depth knowledge of supported Business Units. 

• Use sound judgment to assess facts, spot risks, and recommend practical solutions that balance business needs, employee experience, compliance, and company values, leading with empathy in every interaction. 

• Work with HRBPs and business leaders to identify workforce themes, risks, and trends, and prepare reports and analysis to support workforce planning. 

• Support reorganizations, and other workforce changes. Work with Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, and others to stay compliant with local labor laws, collective bargaining agreements, and union requirements. 

• Leverage data, analytics, AI-enabled tools, and automation to improve HR advisory effectiveness, streamline work, and enhance decision-making. 

• Keep people matters, compliance and the Finland site running smoothly. Act as Site Lead for Finland, champion engagement, build the office community and promote our values and culture. 

• Contribute to regional and global HR projects and collaborate with a global HR team. 

How you’ll work 

Our values show up in how you do the job. 

• Obsess over our Customers: Delivers responsive, high-quality HR support that balances business needs, employee experience, compliance, and risk. 

• Compete to Win: own outcomes, meet deadlines and hold quality high. 

• Challenge (Y)our Thinking: assess risk, make balanced recommendations, and push back constructively. Look for opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, and improve how HR work is delivered. . 

• Act Fast / Learn Fast: move between day-to-day queries and complex cases, and pick up new tools, data, and automation quickly. 

• Stronger Together: partner openly with HR Business Partners, specialist teams, Legal and local leaders. Build strong partnerships across HR, the business, and specialist teams, using diplomacy and influence to achieve outcomes.  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Law, Psychology or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. 

• 5 + years of HR generalist experience, ideally in a multinational or matrixed organization. 

• Strong knowledge of Finnish employment law, HR practices, and employee relations processes. 

• Working knowledge of HR practices, employment policies & relations, employee engagement & performance management. 

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment. 

• Experience partnering with managers and influencing decision-making. 

• Proven experience with complex employee relations cases, grievances, and organizational change, including employee representative processes. 

• Lead and coordinate employee engagement events, wellbeing initiatives, and local People programs 

• Fluent English and Finnish. 

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and coaching skills, with sound judgment and discretion. 

• Confidence with HR systems (ideally Workday), case management tools, and reporting. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting other Nordic countries. 

• Swedish language skills. 

• Experience using data, automation, or AI-enabled tools to improve HR service. 

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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