To support Swappie's continued growth and support our leaders during a parental leave of our colleague, we are searching for a strategic HR professional who thrives on building real partnerships with business leaders and turning people insights into meaningful action.

Senior HR Business Partner (fixed-term), Helsinki

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you will join our People team at our HQ in Helsinki. In this role, you will partner closely with leaders across the Finland/HQ organisation and acting as a trusted advisor, a culture champion, and a driver of people initiatives that create real business impact.

You will work closely with the wider People team (HR & TA) to align HR strategy with business goals, lead key people initiatives, and ensure Swappie remains a place of high engagement, strong performance, and inclusive culture.

If you're energised by working in a fast-growing company where HR is genuinely strategic and you care about creating workplaces where people do their best work, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Work On

• Strategic HR Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to leaders and executives across Swappie HQ. Understand business needs deeply and align HR plans and initiatives to support them.

• Engagement & Culture: Drive initiatives that improve eNPS, employee engagement, and wellbeing. Be an ambassador for Swappie's culture of impact orientation, growth mindset, and inclusion.

• Performance & Development: Support and guide leaders through performance management, development conversations, and talent decisions. Help build a culture of accountability and continuous growth.

• People Analytics & Insights: Use data and analytics to identify trends, recommend solutions, and support informed HR decision-making. Track and own KPIs across engagement, productivity, health, diversity, and compliance.

• Organisational Design: Ensure the organisation structure supports business and people needs. Partner with leaders on workforce planning and organisational changes.

• HR Cycle Management: Lead and manage key HR cycles including the annual performance and salary review, in collaboration with the broader People team.

• Compliance & Risk: Ensure compliance with Finnish labour law and relevant regulations. Proactively mitigate legal and HR-related risks.

• Collaboration & Alignment: Work closely with other HR functions (Talent Acquisition, L&D, HR Ops) to ensure a coordinated and aligned approach to people matters across the company.
  

We Would Love to Hear From You If You Have…

• Senior level experience: Solid experience in an HR Business Partner or similar strategic HR role (maybe in a fast-growing or international company environment?), and a proven ability to work as a trusted advisor to senior leaders by influencing, challenging, and supporting them on people matters.

• People & culture expertise: Strong understanding of engagement, performance management, organisational development, and culture building.

• Analytical mindset: Comfort working with HR data and metrics to identify insights and drive evidence-based decisions.

• Finnish labour law: Solid understanding of Finnish employment legislation and experience managing compliance matters and employee relations.

• Initiative management: Experience planning and executing people initiatives from start to finish, managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

• Communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication in both Finnish and English — you engage people at all levels with clarity and confidence.

• Impact-oriented, growth mindset, and genuinely inclusive mindset: You focus on outcomes, involve people in solutions, and foster psychological safety.

What We Offer

• Work that means something. 💚 Every device we sell keeps electronics out of landfill and puts money back in people's pockets. Your work directly shapes people's experience at Swappie and the company's ability to achieve its mission — and that's a real thing, not a tagline.

• Real ownership and impact. We measure by what changes, not by hours logged. You'll have genuine scope to shape how things work, and when something's broken, we expect you to say so and help fix it.

• A complex, interesting business to get your teeth into. We operate across supply, demand, technology, and logistics in multiple markets. There really is no other business like our’s. The exposure to strategic HR work in a scaling international company is real.

• An international team that's easy to be yourself in. We have people from dozens of nationalities across Helsinki, Tallinn, and Leipzig. Our working language is English, our culture is low-hierarchy, and we take inclusion seriously — not as a policy, but as a behaviour we hold each other to.

• Feedback that actually fuels you. Growth mindset isn't a buzzword here. It's one of three behaviours everyone at Swappie is held to. You'll get honest, timely feedback, and leaders are expected to make you more capable than the role you were hired for.

• A team that pulls together. The smartest person in the room is the room. We share credit, bring people in early, and default to "yes, let me" over "not my problem." You will work alongside our fun, collaborative and skilled People team!

Practicalities

📍 Location: Helsinki, Finland (HQ).

📅 Start date: Ideally in August, negotiable.

🕑 Working hours: Monday to Friday, standard business hours, hybrid remote.

📝 Contract: Fixed-term until May 2027 (parental leave cover).

💰 Salary: 5000-5850€/month (defined individually based on experience).

⏰ Application deadline: Please submit your application as soon as possible.

Does this sound like an exciting opportunity for you? If yes, we'd love to hear from you!

Questions? 🤔 recruitment@swappie.com will happily reply. Kindly note that we don't accept job applications via email.

This Is How the Recruitment Process Will Look Like

• Intro with Head of Talent Acquisition (45 minute call): Let’s get introduced and discuss expectations both ways.

• Interview with the CHRO(60 min): Dive deeper into the role and Swappie’s culture, and let us assess your skills and competencies for future success.

• Final interview (45mins): Get to know potential future colleague(s) and get a clear understanding about the role and what it takes to succeed in it
  
  
  The process is designed to be a transparent, two-way assessment, ensuring we find the right match for our team. If you're ready to join the mission, start by reviewing our guide on How we hire. We look forward to your application!