Terése Gustafsson

I am a committed, courageous and clear communicating HR professional. One of my greatest strengths is building relationships and trust in my work. I do this with a non-pretentious attitude, curiosity and solid broad competence and interest within the HR area.

I find it easy to communicate with different types of personalities and I believe in people's own abilities, even when they do not always do it themselves. I have personal integrity, but always with a good laugh at hand. I never want to get stuck in old habits and I always challenge myself and delvelop my skills.

I am development-oriented, always curious about the business and I am driven by us getting better at what we do and achieving our goals. With an analytical mind and the ability to naturally connect our daily work to the more long-term strategic business goals, I contribute value to teams I work in. I add value by seeing different perpectives in situations and dialogs.

I have solid experience in supporting managers, management teams and solving issues. In recent years, I have worked extensively with organizational changes and change management. I have a good track record of handling sensitive labor law matters and managing conflicts. Leadership development & cultural issues have always been close to my heart, it is the core of everything we do – the small things we do and say in our everyday work always affect the big picture.

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Head of People at Industrial & Engineering AB, Indutrade (2025-05 – 2025-12)

Responsible for the HR strategy and work. I supported primarily the Business Segment Leaders and management team. This role involved a close collaboration in the management team. HR initiatives were defined based on business needs.

Process-wise the focus was on Talent Management, with a particular emphasis on succession planning linked to portfolio analysis, the aim was to secure long-term competence development and success within the 63 companys globally (aquisitions). This role required strong ability to navigate a complex organization, inspire and influence from a HR perspective and communicate effectively cross borders and companys.

HR Business Partner at Ramboll (2022-01 – 2025-12)

As HR Business Partner for Market Buildings (650 employees), I was responsible for the strategic and operational HR agenda. I supported around 70 managers at different levels and was myself member of Buildings management team and also the divisions management teams. Together, we worked towards our goals in the business plan and in Ramboll's overall strategy.

• Reduce employee turnover: I contributed to reducing employee turnover through targeted actions within leadership and, it went from 27% to 13% over one year.
• Talent Management: Besides developing Talent Management process overall I implemented calibration meetings within Performance Management- and promotion process, aiming to increase alignment, raise goal quality for the amployees, and strengthen engagement.
• Organizational Development: Led several successful reorganizations, e.g changing organization structure and handling terminations.
• Leadership Development: Continuous work to strengthen managers' ability to lead in change and drive engagement.
• Labor Law & Conflict Management: Handled complex employment law cases and provided support in conflict resolution with successful results.
• Work Environment issues: Led us through a situation with a work environment issue with several stakeholders involved, with a successfull outcome.

HR Consultant (temporary assignment) at Sundbybergs kommun (2021-01 – 2022-12)

Supported 2 departments: "Children & Education" (preschool) & "Culture & Leisure" (including indoor swimming, library and community youth center). Focus areas during this period beside every day work: Implemented benefit bike program, put together and delivered training in competence-based recruitment, was responsible for and carried out the payroll mapping for the municipality.

Head of People & Culture at Beamon People AB (now Alten Sverige AB) (2019-01 – 2021-12)

In this role I was responsible for, and delivered, the operational and strategic HR agenda.

Competencies in my team was: Payroll, Talent Aquisition and Marketing & Communication. I led a team of six people with specialist expertise in each areas. I was a member in the management team. In 2020 I led the organization through extensive crisis measures and downsizing due to the pandemic which included, among other things, changes in contracts and layoffs. I also participated in the integration between Beamon People and Alten (who had aquired Beamon People) where focus was ensuring a smooth merger of the organisations and keep the people on board. In parallel I was responsible for leadership development and together with my colleagues we worked purposefully to preserve and strengthen the company culture during a time of changes and uncertainty.

HR Manager Nordic & Poland at Agfa Healthcare AB (2016-01 – 2019-12)

Agfa Healthcare is a leading provider of X-ray machines & IT solutions for hospitals. As HR Manager for the region, I was a member of the management team and we worked closely together to achieve our business goals. I had operational and strategic responsibility for HR in the region as well as staff liability for an HR specialist based in Denmark.

Successfully led two re-organizations in the Nordic countries, 2016 & 2017, which included a new organizational structure and layoffs. Project-led the implementation of a new employee survey for the Polish organization and worked actively with results follow-up together with employees and managers on site in Poland. Created and implemented new policies for overtime and flextime, aligned with labour law in each country, in the Nordic countries.

HR Business Partner at Falck Sverige AB (2012-01 – 2016-12)

In my role I supported multiple business units & companys within the group. During this period, Falck had 2800 employees and 7 collective agreements. Within the Assistance companies, the focus was on selling the HR function and demonstrate it´s value for the business.

I created and implemented processes, policies, structure for the work environment work and a benefit platform. Within the Emergency Companies (Ambulance, Fire department). I offered intensive labor law support, handled sensitive matters and union negotiations in an emergency environment.

They were used to working together with HR. The need for HR support there was great in general.

• Recruitment project: Started up and led a project where the aim was to staff the ambulancs in Stockholm with specialist nurses from another Nordic country during a period of acute shortage of specialist nurses. Also participated operationally in the recruitment work, in Sweden & Finland.
• Employee survey: Responsible for searching for and implement a new employee survey in Assistance & Emergency companies. I worked particularly with groups with challenging results and supported managers and employees in several development efforts around Sweden.
• Leadership program: I contributed to designing and facilitating a new leadership program in 2014, in collaboration with an external expert.

HR Generalist (interim) at Avanade Sverige AB (2011-01 – 2012-12)

In this role I was responsible for HR in Sweden and a part of the Nordic HR team. I supported managers and employees in all HR issues, conducted onboarding, payroll preparations, worked with Nordic HR projects, led manager meetings and planned staff days.

HR Inquiry Agent, HR Direct at Ericsson AB (2007-01 – 2011-12)

Provided HR support to managers and employees in Sweden over phone and email. Areas included labor law, comp & ben, salary issues, recruitment, work environment, and training and support in HR systems (including SAP training).

Compensation Administrator at Ericsson AB (2007-01 – 2011-12)

Responsible for the administration of Ericsson's share savings program for senior directors and acted global support to share savings plan administrators. The role required high accuracy, integrity, and coordination with international HR colleagues and the bank.

Administrator: HR support / HR projects at Ericsson AB (2007-01 – 2011-12)

Participated in a transition project where HR support and administration for England, Ireland, and the Netherlands were moved from Holland to Stockholm due to restructuring. The work included knowledge transfer and establishment of new processes as well as support in the Swedish team.

Bachelor's degree in Sociology – Stockholm University & Södertörn University College (2003-2007

Labor Market Studies, HR – Stockholm University & Södertörn University College (2003-2007

Business Economics – Stockholm University & Södertörn University College (2003-2007