Head of Business HR

About the Position

We're hiring a Head of Business HR to help develop and build the people practices that support Reaktor's next phase: a growing software product business alongside our core technology solutions work.

Responsibilities

• Lead the partners. You lead, coach, and develop the People Partner team and define what great partnering looks like at Reaktor: partners who come to a business review with a view on capability, cost, and risk, measured by the decisions they shape and the people metrics that move the business.
• Build the people model for product. You lead on writing the playbook for how Reaktor builds, pays, and grows product teams, and partner with our product leadership directly while it takes shape, alongside the People Partner who covers our wider defence and security portfolio.
• Raise the leadership bar. You help us hire, develop and keep leaders who set the standard, and make sure leadership quality shows up in our talent decisions.

Requirements

• Around 12 or more years in HR, with significant experience as a senior HR business partner and leading a team of partners.
• A product background. We're looking for someone who has led HR in a software or technology product company through growth, and understands how product organisations are built, paid and led.
• Enough grasp of consulting economics to partner both sides of the business, or the appetite to learn them quickly.
• Because you'll work with our defence and security product business, security clearance from the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo). With your consent, we start the process with the final candidate before the offer is confirmed.
• Strong experience in organisation design and workforce planning, including through growth, restructuring, or acquisition.
• Knowledge of Finnish employment law and co-determination, and experience handling complex ER cases. International employment experience is a plus.
• Credibility with senior, opinionated experts, and comfort bringing data and AI tools to people decisions.
• Fluent working English, with Finnish a strong advantage.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a hybrid work environment
• Familiarity with digital product development

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing company
• Flexible work arrangements

About the Company

Reaktor is turning a consulting-led technology company into a diversified technology group, with a software product business growing alongside the technology solutions core that has carried us for 25 years. That shift will succeed or stall on people decisions: which leaders we back, how we organise, how we pay, and how talent moves between businesses that make money in different ways. You lead those decisions where they happen, in the business.

We're around 700 people, organised into business portfolios, each with a People Partner. We're raising what that role means: partners who shape how their portfolio grows, organises, and leads, with our operations team handling the operational work. You lead the partners, partner directly with senior business leaders, and build the people model for Reaktor's growing product business.

Location

• Our Helsinki office, at least 3 days per week. The rest is flexible.

Applying

Send us a line. You don't need a CV if you don't have one ready, so a LinkedIn profile, a website or a portfolio works fine. We want Reaktor to be a place that values people for the whole of who they are, and we encourage applications from every background. If you meet most of what's above and not all of it, apply anyway. Please apply by Monday 26 October.