HR Operations & Payroll Manager
- Application Deadline: April 30, 2026
- Stockholm
- On-site
We are seeking an experienced HR Operations & Payroll Manager to join our global HR team in Stockholm. This hands-on, senior-level role reports directly to the CHRO and plays a key part in shaping and managing our global HR infrastructure.
You will oversee payroll, benefits, insurance, and pension administration across multiple countries through outsourced partners, ensuring compliance and accuracy for all employees worldwide, including those employed via Employer of Record (EOR) arrangements. In addition, you will lead our HR Coordinator team and establish scalable policies and processes to support our fast-growing organization.
Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
- Responsible for the global end-to-end payroll process, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and a seamless employee experience.
- Lead the design of scalable HR operations processes that support our rapid growth.
- Own vendor relationship management across HR operations (including payroll, benefits, EOR, insurances), ensuring service quality, compliance, and scalability.
- Act as the company’s subject-matter expert on global employment compliance and payroll governance.
- Ensure timely and accurate payroll through clear, compliant policies and effective documentation.
- Manage and coordinate payroll across multiple countries via outsourced payroll providers.
- Oversee global benefits, insurances, and pension administration.
- Ensure accurate and timely pay for employees in EOR arrangements.
- Supervise and mentor the HR Coordinator.
- Develop and implement HR policies, processes, and systems to support a growing global workforce.
- Ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations in all operating countries.
- Partner with leadership to support strategic HR initiatives and operational excellence.
- Drive efficiency and scalability in HR operations while maintaining compliance.
Team and culture
You’ll join a collaborative HR team that values pragmatism, transparency, and a business-first mindset. We work with high trust and low ego, partnering closely with leaders across the organization to enable growth, capability-building, and scientific excellence.
Skills & Requirements
Qualifications
Educational background
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or a related field.
Professional experience
- Solid expertise in global payroll processes and benefits administration across multiple countries, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and a seamless employee experience.
- Experience of managing outsourced payroll providers.
- Strong knowledge of global employment compliance and EOR arrangements.
- Experience in HR operations, with a proven ability to design and implement HR policies and processes in a scaling organization.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with HRIS systems; experience with HiBob is advantageous but not required.
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectively.
- Strong communication skills, capable of collaborating across cultures, teams, and geographies.
- High AI readiness, with a willingness to leverage new technologies to optimize HR processes.
Personality
How you work
- Bring structure, discipline, and clarity to a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Enjoy designing processes that are scalable and improve over time.
- Balance pragmatism with high standards.
How you collaborate
- Build trust quickly and communicate effectively across cultures.
- Empathetic, approachable, and skilled at stakeholder management.
- Foster strong working relationships across teams.
How you think
- Analytical and curious, comfortable making decisions with imperfect information.
- Embrace a growth mindset and continuous improvement.
- Passionate about learning and developing both yourself and others.
Other information
The role is based at our HQ in Stockholm. We believe the best collaboration happens in person, and we value the energy of working together. While we offer hybrid flexibility, this role is designed for someone who enjoys being onsite with the team most days. The role includes occasional international travel.
Work with great people
About the company
Nordberg Medical is a Swedish biotech company working at the forefront of biomaterial science to reverse functionality loss. With state-of-the-art biomaterials, we produce and market innovative medical products that target structural imbalances associated with aging.
In 2021, we passed a critical milestone by receiving CE certification for our first product. JULÄINE™ of Sweden is a biostimulator that activates natural collagen production in the skin. This positions the company well to pursue an ambitious growth strategy in the aesthetic dermatology market.
Backed by leading investors and extensive R&D, we are expanding across multiple therapeutic areas and geographies.
Join an international team of highly talented individuals where your contribution counts. We promote a culture of entrepreneurship, multiculturalism, and flexibility in more than ten countries. At Nordberg Medical, you will have the opportunity to grow and learn, to be creative, and to contribute to both our product and company success.
Add the title below:Our values
Ambitious- Self-drive supports the collective ambition of the company. - We are the front runners in next generation biomaterials. - We develop the business through continuously learning from our experiences. - We reward achievements and celebrate progress along the way. - We focus on the solution when faced with setbacks.
Unique- We transform the market with breakthrough innovation. - We prove uniqueness through science and outstanding partnerships. - We embrace differences as strengths by including different viewpoints in our business. - We encourage our teams to develop current business practices with innovative ideas.
Accountable- We put the customers at the core of everything we do. - We deliver on promise and communicate with honesty. - We take responsibility for all our actions and the resultant outcomes. - We recognise and embrace our responsibility for a positive impact on stakeholders and communities.
United- We achieve success through joint efforts and teamwork. - We develop partnerships through a strong belief in the product and mission. - We bridge differences by assuming good intent and acting in the best interests of each other.
Emelie Wedin | Contact Person
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