Consultant, People Development, Ebeltoft

Are you motivated to create meaningful employee experiences? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can shape recruitment, onboarding, and learning initiatives? And can you do all that while ensuring smooth coordination and stakeholder support? If yes, you just might be our next colleague in Kvadrat.

We are looking for a People Development Consultant to join our team at our headquarters in Ebeltoft. Our office is located in beautiful natural surroundings in Ebeltoft, a 45 min. drive from Aarhus.

Job description
You will be responsible for our recruitments and onboarding within the Kvadrat organization, learning initiatives, and training administration.

Some of your key responsibilities will be:

• Recruitment. You will be responsible for the recruitment process and platform in Kvadrat. This means supporting managers with the process and sparring with other People colleagues in the organization outside Denmark.
• Onboarding. You will be supporting managers with the onboarding process for new employees. This means providing relevant materials, tools and sparring.
• Newcomers Academies. You will plan and facilitate onboarding Academies in Kvadrat HQ (Ebeltoft). We facilitate Newcomers Academies for new colleagues – some are online, and some are onsite here in Kvadrat Ebeltoft. You will be the host of these Academies
• Academy support. You will coordinate practicalities and content around internal learning training programs (Kvadrat Academy – both online and onsite). You will be the go-to link between our participants, internal trainers, and external stakeholders (external teachers, hotels, restaurants etc.).
• Employee Engagement. Together with other colleagues in People Development, you will prepare our annual employee survey and support managers during and after the survey.

Qualifications
The ideal candidate has a BA or master’s degree within learning, business or communication. You have good relational and social capabilities and can collaborate with people at all organizational levels from employees to Senior Management.

You are a great communicator and have strong Danish oral and written skills. English is our corporate language, and we expect you to be able to communicate fluently in both oral and written English as well.

As a person, you are organized, analytical, service-minded, and detail-oriented. You have an interest in learning and communication and your approach is proactive and independent.

Ideally you have experience with recruitment, onboarding processes, facilitation of workshops and training (host own Academies), training administration (support Academies) and coordination of events. But this is not a requirement.

Application
We look forward to reading your application – please remember to attach a cover letter and a current CV in English when you apply. Your application should be submitted through the application form below. Interviews will be conducted in April during week 14 and 15.

We would like you to start June 1^st.
If you have any questions to the position, you are welcome to contact Jannie Højer, Director, People Development at jaho@kvadrat.org

We are Kvadrat
Kvadrat was established in Denmark in 1968 and has deep roots in Scandinavia’s world-famous design tradition. A leader in design innovation, Kvadrat produces high-performance, design upholstery and curtain textiles, rugs and acoustic solutions for both commercial and residential interiors. Our products reflect our commitment to color, quality, simplicity, innovation and design. Kvadrat fabrics have been used in some of the world’s most intriguing architectural developments, such as the Gherkin, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; Oslo Opera House, Norway; Reichstag, Berlin; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Copenhagen Opera House, Denmark and Guangzhou Opera House, China.

At Kvadrat, we consistently push the aesthetic, technological and functional properties of textiles. In doing so, we collaborate with leading designers, architects and artists, including; David Adjaye, Miriam Bäckström, Tord Boontje, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Alfredo Häberli, Giulio Ridolfo, Peter Saville, Finn Sködt, Roman
Signer, as well as Patricia Urquiola.

We try to set up as few rules as possible. In return, we expect each person to always act in accordance with our basic values, and in doing so, to be quality driven in all decisions and actions, to act according to our mindset of ‘strong teams – one company’, to be passionate about your daily tasks at the job and the design culture that we are an integrated part of, to stay open-minded towards clients and colleagues, and to be honest in communication and treat others with respect.

www.kvadrat.dk