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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.
We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.
Job Description
Position Overview
As the HR Business Partner, you will play a critical role in enabling business success by partnering with leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, talent development, and employee engagement. You will work closely with business leaders across Sweden, the UAE, and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), providing strategic guidance and hands-on HR support in a dynamic international environment.
You will be part of a collaborative global HR team supporting approximately 1,500 employees across more than 30 countries. This position reports to the Director of Human Resources in the United States and works closely with the Swedish HR team to ensure compliance with local employment regulations, collective bargaining agreements, union requirements, and company practices.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing strategic HR partnership with hands-on operational execution and thrives in a complex, matrixed organization.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the dedicated HR Business Partner for approximately 150 Surveillance Defense employees and leaders across Sweden, the UAE, and KSA.
- Build trusted partnerships with business leaders and provide practical, solutions-oriented guidance on people, organizational, and business-related HR matters.
- Partner with leaders on coaching, leadership development, succession planning, talent reviews, employee engagement, retention, and critical-skill development.
- Lead and support performance management, including goal setting, performance discussions, calibration, development planning, and accountability for follow-through.
- Advise leaders on organizational structure, workforce planning, role clarity, job design, change management, and organizational effectiveness.
- Manage employee relations matters in partnership with leaders and the Swedish HR team, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant outcomes under Swedish labor law, collective bargaining agreements, union requirements, and local practices.
- Establish and maintain constructive relationships with unions and employee representatives, including consultation and negotiation support.
- Navigate the shared Täby site environment effectively, collaborating with the Solutions group while maintaining clear business-unit accountability, priorities, and confidentiality for Surveillance Defense.
- Use people data and insights to identify workforce trends, risks, and opportunities and support informed leadership decisions.
- Support compensation and reward processes, including annual salary reviews, job evaluations, promotion reviews, market benchmarking, and other people-cycle activities.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition and hiring leaders on recruitment, selection, offer development, and onboarding for key roles.
- Provide end-to-end HR operational support for the MENA region, including onboarding, visa and immigration support, employment letters and agreements, insurance administration, required employment documentation, offboarding, and coordination with internal partners and external vendors.
- Deliver manager training, tools, and guidance that strengthen leadership effectiveness and promote manager ownership and self-sufficiency.
- Contribute to global HR initiatives and collaborate across the broader HR organization to ensure alignment, consistency, and effective execution.
What You Need
- Several years of progressive HR Business Partner experience in a global, matrixed, or multinational organization.
- Experience supporting leaders across leadership development, performance management, organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, change initiatives, talent reviews, and manager training.
- Strong knowledge of Swedish employment law, employee relations, collective bargaining agreements, and union relations, with demonstrated ability to build effective relationships with unions, employee representatives, leaders, and other key stakeholders.
- Experience managing sensitive employee relations matters with sound judgment, discretion, consistency, and appropriate documentation.
- Hands-on experience supporting international HR operations, preferably within the MENA region, including onboarding, visas or immigration, employment agreements, insurance administration, and offboarding.
- Strong stakeholder management, coaching, influencing, conflict-resolution, and business acumen, with the ability to establish credibility with senior leaders across geographic and business-unit boundaries.
- Ability to balance strategic partnership with detailed operational execution across multiple countries and priorities.
- Experience using HR data and analytics to support decisions and identify workforce trends and risks.
- Familiarity with compensation frameworks, job architecture, annual people processes, and HR systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience preferred.
- Swedish language skills and experience with Swedish employment practices are required; fluent written and spoken English strongly preferred.
- Able and willing to travel internationally up to 10%.
What We Offer
- A strategic HR Business Partner role with meaningful influence on the people strategy for Surveillance Defense across Sweden and the MENA region.
- The opportunity to partner closely with leaders and employees in a complex, international business environment.
- A collaborative global HR network with strong partnership across the U.S. and Swedish HR teams.
- A role combining strategic HR leadership with practical, hands-on execution.
- Opportunities for professional growth, cross-regional collaboration, and visible business impact.
Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.
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You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day.
Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.
