About the role

We’re looking for an experienced and proactive People Partner to support and elevate our Swedish operations and our highly valued blue-collar workforce. This is a key role where you’ll work closely with operational leaders to shape a high-performing, safe, and engaging workplace.

As a strategic partner, you’ll translate our global People & Culture agenda into impactful local initiatives, ensuring we continue to attract, develop, and retain skilled talent. You’ll thrive in an operational environment, balancing hands-on People support with long-term workforce planning, leadership development, and change management.

Some of the things you will do

• Partner with the business: Work closely with Swedish operations leaders, understanding their day-to-day realities and supporting them with practical People solutions.

• Employee engagement: Build a strong, inclusive workplace where both blue- and white-collar teams feel engaged, respected, and able to perform at their best.

• Internal communication: Keep leaders and teams informed and aligned on priorities, key deadlines, and ongoing initiatives.

• People operations: Ensure People policies and processes are applied consistently and effectively, and that key P&C targets are met.

• Employee relations: Handle complex employee relations cases in a fair, pragmatic, and legally compliant way, in close cooperation with operations and unions.

• Core People processes: Run annual People cycles such as compensation reviews, performance management, talent reviews, and succession planning.

• Recruitment & onboarding: Work with Talent Acquisition to hire and onboard operational and blue-collar roles effectively, with a focus on quality and retention.

• Learning & development: Identify training needs across the Swedish organisation and help put relevant, practical development initiatives in place.

• Compliance: Make sure People policies and practices comply with Swedish labour law and collective agreements, while working for the operational context.

• Workforce planning: Support leaders in planning staffing needs, identifying skill gaps, and preparing for future demands.

• Health & safety: Partner with Health & Safety to support a strong safety culture across the organisation.

• Change & transformation: Support leaders and teams through organisational changes, helping them adapt and stay focused.

• Union relations: Build and maintain constructive relationships with union representatives and take part in negotiations when needed.

Your future team

In this role, you will work closely with the Swedish Operations leadership team and report to the future Head of People for Sweden and collaborate closely with our Global People Partner Team , ensuring strong alignment with our global People & Culture strategy, ways of working, and best practices.

Location📍

This role can be based in Växjö, Gothenburg, or Jönköping, with the ability to travel due to supporting multi-terminal locations across Sweden.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field

• Experience in a similar senior People Partner / HRBP role in a larger organisation, or as HR Manager/Head of HR in a smaller operational business

• Background in logistics, transport, manufacturing, or similar operational environments.

• Solid experience supporting operations and blue-collar workforces from a logistics, transport, manufacturing, or similar operational environments

• Proven ability to manage complex employee relations in an operational setting

• Strong business acumen and data-driven mindset

• Deep knowledge of Swedish labour law and collective bargaining agreements, particularly Transport CBA

• Experience developing People strategies for skilled trades and operational roles

• Demonstrated success implementing lean or efficiency-driven HR practices

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at all levels

• Excellent communication, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills

• Highly organised, analytical, and solution-oriented

• Experience working in a unionised and matrix organisation

• Fluency in Swedish and English

Nice to have (the cherry on top 🍒)

• Experience supporting large-scale change or transformation initiatives

• Prior experience working with or in an environment successfully applying Lean/Six Sigma

• Passion for leadership development and continuous improvement
  If this is you, then we can’t wait to meet you!

What you’ll get

We can promise you that you will be challenged, develop your skills and have the opportunity to work with truly amazing and competent colleagues. If you like changes and want to set new processes and ways of working - this is the place for you!

Of course, we have all the necessary and standard benefits in place, but in addition to this, we can also offer:

• 👶 Parental Pay for Six Months: Step away from work and provide the best care and love to your little one.

• 🎂 A Day Off on Your Birthday: We love to celebrate, so enjoy your birthday to the fullest with a day off each year!

Diversity and inclusion are very important to us and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We want to be a workplace where everyone’s perspectives and opinions are valued, and we are dedicated to creating opportunities for all employees to thrive and reach their full potential.

Get to know us

In 2022, Instabee was founded after combining Budbee and Instabox - two leading last-mile delivery companies with three consumer-facing brands: Budbee, Instabox, and Porterbuddy. Instabee serves millions of consumers across Europe with convenient deliveries and is on track to become the leading European e-commerce enabler. Always with the consumer at heart.

We’re fast, both in terms of parcel delivery and when it comes to growing our business. So far our journey has taken us from Sweden to the rest of Scandinavia and parts of continental Europe, but we have no plans on stopping anytime soon. As we continue to expand, the complexity of Instabee grows in parallel. With that in mind, we’re now looking for you to help us on the journey ahead.

This recruitment process consists of background checks via Verifiera as a review of previous public criminal records. The result is public information that is handled confidentially. This is mandatory for all recruitment processes at Instabee in Sweden.