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województwo wielkopolskie, Polska
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Join our global HR leadership team, leading the People & Organisational Development function. You will be based in Poznan and play an important role in transforming how we develop, support, and enable career growth across ROCKWOOL.
In this role, you will re-establish and develop our Centre of Excellence across learning & development, succession & talent pipelines, and leadership & culture. You will combine strategic direction-setting with the design and implementation of solutions that bring the vision to life.
Working closely with the CHRO and Group Management, you will ensure our people and talent strategies support business priorities and position ROCKWOOL for sustained performance and growth.
Ready to help build sustainable future with us?
In an ever-changing, fast paced world, we owe it to ourselves and our future generations to live life responsibly. At ROCKWOOL, we work relentlessly to enrich modern living through our innovative stone wool solutions.
Join us and make a difference!
Your future team
Reporting directly to the CHRO, you will be a key member of the Global HR Leadership Team. You will lead a core team of specialists and collaborate closely with regional HR leaders, Global HR Business Partners, and engage with Group Management members to advance ROCKWOOL's people and talent agenda. Operating in a truly global role, you will work across functions, geographies, and leadership levels to create impact at scale.
What you will be doing
As Head of People & Organisational Development, you will drive three interconnected strategic pillars that form the backbone of ROCKWOOL's People & Organisation agenda.
Learning & Development
You will lead ROCKWOOL's global people development agenda and re-imagine how ROCKWOOL learns and grows to align with business priorities and future capability needs. You will support our talent philosophy by building the infrastructure that enables career mobility and ensures employees have access to high-quality development opportunities. Leading a dedicated team, you will create, deploy, and continuously measure the effectiveness of learning solutions across the organisation.
Succession Planning & Talent Pipeline
You will lead ROCKWOOL's global approach to succession planning, working closely with regional HR leaders, HR Business Partners, and Group Management. You will drive succession planning for key roles, facilitate talent discussions, and create development pathways that strengthen our talent pipeline. Through close collaboration with the HR Business Partner organisation, your team will help connect talents with development and career opportunities across functions and geographies.
Leadership & Culture
You will lead the strengthening of leadership capability across the organisation and help shape a culture that enables performance, collaboration, and continuous growth. Through leadership development programmes, and targeted interventions, you will support leaders at all levels in bringing ROCKWOOL's values and management principles to life, while fostering an environment where people can learn, develop, and contribute at their best.
A key part of your role will be advancing our talent philosophy towards a more inclusive talent ecosystem. We call this the funnel-shaped talent pipeline: an approach that broadens access to development opportunities, builds critical skills across the organisation, and creates pathways for growth at all levels. By connecting learning, leadership development, talent pipelines, and succession planning, you will help ensure ROCKWOOL has the capabilities needed to succeed today and in the future.
What you bring
You bring around 15 years of professional experience, including experience leading talent management, leadership development, and/or learning & development in a complex, global organisation. You have helped shape and implement enterprise-wide talent, leadership, and organisational development strategies that strengthen organisational capability, support business priorities, and prepare the workforce for future needs.
With strong business acumen, you translate business priorities into scalable people solutions and measurable outcomes. You combine strategic thinking with analytical capability and use data and insights to inform decisions, priorities, and investments.
You bring excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, and builds trust and credibility with leaders, stakeholders, and colleagues across the organisation. You are skilled at building partnerships across functions, regions, and cultures and bringing diverse perspectives together around a common direction.
As a leader, you create clarity, set direction, and enable teams to succeed. You have experience building and developing strong teams and delivering impactful solutions in complex organisational environments. You bring intellectual curiosity, learning agility, and a genuine passion for organisational development and people excellence.
Above all, we value the breadth of your experience, your leadership approach, and your ability to learn, adapt, and create impact. We do not require a specific academic degree and assess candidates holistically, recognising that valuable experience and capabilities can be gained through a variety of career paths and backgrounds.
What we offer
By joining our team, you become a part of the people-centric work environment of a Danish company. We offer you a competitive salary, permanent contract after the probation period, development package, team building events, activity-based office in Poznan’s city center in the new prestigious office building – Nowy Rynek. The building is recognized as a building without barriers, which means that it is fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities.
Our compensation package on employment contracts includes:
… and while in the office you can also use modern office space with beautiful view and high standard furniture, bicycle parking facilities & showers, chill-out rooms with PlayStation, football table, pool table, board games, subsidized canteen with delicious food & fruit.
Interested?
If you recognise yourself in this profile and challenge, we kindly invite you to apply with your CV in English. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis.
Who we are
At ROCKWOOL Group, we are committed to enriching the lives of everyone who experiences our products and services. We help our customers and communities tackle many of today’s biggest sustainability and development challenges, from energy consumption and noise pollution to fire resilience, water scarcity, and flooding. Our product range reflects the diversity of the world’s needs, while supporting our stakeholders in reducing their own carbon footprint.
Stone wool is a fully recyclable, versatile material that forms the basis of all our businesses. With ~11,800 dedicated colleagues in 37 countries and sales in more than 120, we are the world leader in stone wool products, from building insulation to acoustic ceilings, external cladding systems to horticultural solutions, engineered fibres for industrial use to insulation for the process industry, and marine & offshore
Sustainability is central to our business strategy. ROCKWOOL was one of the first companies to commit to actively contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) framework and are actively committed to 11 SDGs, including SDG 14, Life Below Water. Through our partnership with the One Ocean Foundation and in connection with our sponsorship of the Denmark SailGP team, we will help raise awareness around ocean health challenges in an effort to accelerate solutions to protect it.
Diverse and Inclusive Culture
We want all our people to feel valued, respected, included and heard. We employ 79 different nationalities worldwide and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees, promote diversity, and work against all forms of discrimination among ROCKWOOL employees.
At ROCKWOOL, you will experience a friendly team environment. Our culture is very important to us. In fact, we refer to our culture as “The ROCKWOOL Way”. This is the foundation in which we operate and is based upon our values of ambition, responsibility, integrity and efficiency.