Senior P&O Business Partner
COWI is an international consultancy within engineering, architecture, energy and environment. Together with customers, we co-create sustainable and beautiful solutions that improve the quality of life for people.
Do you have a passion for guiding leaders toward better decisions that improve team performance, engagement, and leadership excellence? Are you skilled at shaping the corporate agenda, implementing strategic people initiatives, and leading impactful organisational change? Join us and help turn vision into meaningful results.
We are strengthening our People and Organisation (P&O) team and are looking for a Senior P&O Business Partner who will act as a trusted advisor and advocate to senior leaders in COWI, Norway.
Develop leaders and lead strategic people partnership
As Senior P&O Business Partner, you will be a member of the leadership team collaborating closely with senior leaders to enhance leadership capabilities, team engagement, and organisational governance. Furthermore, you will play an engaged and hands-on role in delivering key people initiatives in collaborating with P&O colleagues locally and across functions. You will report to Ingrid Husan, Head of P&O Norway, and be based at our Oslo office.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Partner with senior leaders to address organisational challenges and implement prioritised change initiatives.
- Provide leadership sparring on engagement, conflict resolution, team development, and organisational design.
- Enhance leadership pipeline behaviours and ensure clear, consistent leadership practices.
- Support and collaborate with the legal and labour relations function as a strategic partner.
- Manage and execute annual people processes (engagement, people review, succession, talent, performance).
- Ensure solid organisational governance and adherence to COWI standards.
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to growth in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. You should enjoy navigating complexity, balancing multiple tasks, and working closely with a skilled, inclusive team.
On top of that, you have:
- A master’s degree in business, HR, leadership & organisation, or similar.
- Extensive experience as a strategic HR/P&O Business Partner working with senior leaders.
- Experience facilitating organisational change and improving leadership performance.
- Comprehensive business understanding and ability to turn business needs into actionable people initiatives.
- Experience working with Norwegian employment law
- Fluency in Norwegian and English, written and verbal.
A place to work and so much more.
At COWI, we collaborate with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility, and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide for our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy, and environment into play.
Do you have any questions?
If you have questions or would like further information on the position, please reach out to Ingrid Husan, Head of P&O at inhu@cowi.com, or Mette Gutte, Senior Global Talent Acquisition Specialist at mtgt@cowi.com
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.
Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key.
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting up teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.
