Head of HR - East Europe, Nordics & HQ and Systems Division & Asia

We are searching for two senior leaders to join our Global HR Leadership Team; both roles are as Heads of HR for a business area, anchored in our Group Management, also serving as Strategic Business Partner to the respective EVP – ROCKWOOL Group

Location: ROCKWOOL Headquarters, Hedehusene, Denmark
Reports to: Pernille Fritz Vilhelmsen, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)

Role Highlights

We are recruiting for two global HR leadership positions that combine strategic business partnering with end-to-end HR leadership across complex international business areas. In these roles, you will serve as a trusted advisor to an Executive Vice President at C-level, shape the people agenda for your business area, and lead HR delivery across your geographical scope. Both roles are anchored our global HR Leadership Team and are naturally deeply embedded members of the relevant leadership team of the EVP. This creates a uniquely influential position at the intersection of enterprise HR leadership and business area decision-making.

The two open Positions

• Head of HR, East Europe, Nordics & HQ

• Head of HR, Systems Division & Asia

Role Overview

As Head of HR for your business area, you will be the primary strategic advisor to your EVP on matters relating to business and people strategy, organization and culture, leadership, succession pipeline with strategic workforce planning, performance, and enterprise-wide transformation. You will own the full people agenda across your designated scope and ensure business needs are translated into practical, high-impact HR priorities aligned with enterprise direction.

You will lead HR activities within your business area and geography through direct and indirect teams, ensuring strong execution across HR business partnering, site HR, HR services, employee relations, and compliance. The role requires a strong balance of strategic thinking, organisational leadership, and operational discipline in a unique business operating model with a complex stakeholder landscape.

As the Head of HR, East Europe, Nordics & HQ, your HR teams are located across factory and office sites in Poland, Czech, Hungary, Romania, Nordic countries and Headquarter in Hedehusene, Denmark. You will be overall responsible for local HR delivery, working with and through your teams anchored in the relevant Operating Companies and countries. You will collaborate and work through HR in locations outside your own geographic scope, where EVP’s business area is represented and engaged in commercial activities.

The business area East Europe and Nordics consist of Insulation businesses, catering to customers within the construction and renovation industry, providing products and solutions for all major application areas for both residential and non-residential buildings. The business area also includes the Technical Insulation, a global business in ROCKWOOL, with solutions engineered to improve OEM products or system performance and enhance the production for process, off-shore and the marine industries.

As the Head of HR, Systems Division & Asia , your HR teams are located across factories and offices in Netherlands, Denmark, China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan. You will be overall responsible for local HR delivery, working with and through your teams anchored in the relevant Operating Companies and countries. In this role, the collaboration through HR in locations outside your own geographic scope is especially important as the Systems Division is inherently global businesses operating across almost all countries in the Group.

Our Systems Division consists of the global brands Rockfon (acoustic ceilings and walls), Rockpanel (innovative facade panels), Grodan (sustainable stone wool substrate solutions for professional horticultural) and New Businesses (exploring new business opportunities). Across the Asian markets ROCKWOOL has factories producing core insulation products to the local markets across the region, serving customers within the construction and renovation industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnership: Serve as the primary HR sparring partner to the EVP and business area leadership team on business strategy, organisation design, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning, and culture priorities.
• Geographical HR Leadership: Lead the end-to-end HR agenda across the designated area and business scope, ensuring consistent delivery across countries, operating companies, and HR teams.
• People Strategy Execution: Translate enterprise HR strategy into business-relevant people priorities and drive implementation in close collaboration with the CHRO, members of the HR Leadership Team, and Centers of Expertise.
• Talent, Succession & Organisation Effectiveness: Drive succession planning, leadership development, critical talent retention, organisational effectiveness, and strategic workforce planning to strengthen business performance and future readiness.
• Governance, Risk & Employee Relations: Ensure robust HR governance, compliance, labour model consistency, employee relations approaches, and effective people-related risk management across the designated geographical area.
• Transformation & Change Leadership: Lead the people and organisational dimensions of major change initiatives, including restructuring, operating model changes, M&A integration, and other transformation programs.
• Enterprise Integration: Represent business area perspectives and priorities into enterprise HR discussions and provide feedback to global Centres of Expertise to strengthen overall HR impact and relevance.

What You Bring

• Proven senior HR leadership experience in a large international and matrixed organisation.
• Strong strategic business partnering capability with the credibility and influence to work effectively at executive level.
• Experience leading multi-country or regional HR operations through direct and indirect teams.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to connect people strategy with commercial and operational priorities.Solid experience in organisation design,
• leadership development, talent management, succession planning, and transformation leadership.
• You potentially have a relevant academic degree. However, we value the depth and breadth of your experiences, learning agility and curiosity, your engaging leadership and the ability to influence across a culturally diverse global organization, higher than a specific academic background.

What We Offer

You will join a purpose-driven global company where people, leadership, and culture are recognised as critical business enablers.

These roles offer high visibility, broad organisational exposure, and the opportunity to shape strategic HR execution in close partnership with senior leaders across ROCKWOOL Group.

It is a unique opportunity to join at an important time in ROCKWOOL’s HR organisation, where we are embarking on transformation journey, where a strong global operating model, focused execution, and close business partnership are key to our success as a critical and value-adding enabler.

Interested?

If you are motivated by shaping business performance through people, leadership, and organizational excellence, we would like to hear from you.

While the two positions differ in terms of the business and products as well as the unique geographical scope, they are similar in scope and in the expectations to your background and experience relevant to the positions. Please indicate in your application which of the two positions you are primarily interested in and whether you would like to be considered as a candidate for both roles available.

About ROCKWOOL

At ROCKWOOL Group, we are committed to enriching the lives of everyone who experiences our product solutions. Our expertise is perfectly suited to 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 versatile material and forms the basis of all our businesses. With more than 12,000 passionate colleagues in 39 countries, we are the world leader in stone wool solutions, 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.