Staffing Manager for Defence Service

Are you ready to drive growth in our Defence Services organisation enhancing our international business potential? In this exciting newly established role, you will be key in identifying staffing needs, supporting recruitment activities and lead the strategic workforce planning.


Join us in expanding our Defence Services organisation to unlock our global business potential!
We are growing our Defence Services organisation to align with the significant business potential we see in both existing and new markets. By accelerating and enhancing our recruitment efforts and ensuring we have the right competencies available when needed, we aim to respond swiftly to changes and meet customer demands effectively.

In this newly established role, you will be part of Defence Services organisation and report directly to the VP for Defences Services. You will be part of the management team and play a key role in delivering on our main strategic challenges: staffing and recruitment.

Be part of the Defence Services management team in this newly established high-impact role
As Staffing Manager your responsibilities will be identifying staffing needs, supporting recruitment efforts, and workforce planning for Defence Services. In close cooperation with People & Culture you will ensure smooth onboarding of new colleagues, develop and execute training plans as well as competence development of Defence Services staff. Additionally, you will focus on coordinating team capacity to meet business needs efficiently, including staffing for bids and projects.

Your primary tasks:

• Identify staffing needs across the organisation, collaborate with hiring managers and P&C to prioritize and support recruitment efforts based on business-critical tasks.
• Develop and maintain up-to-date onboarding plans for new colleagues including ensuring timely and smooth onboarding
• Collaborate with P&C to develop competence and training plans, ensuring successful execution of training programs and drive the uplift of competencies across the Defence Services organisation
• Oversee and coordinate tasks across the organisation based on business criticality, ensure efficient mobility between teams and locations.
• Ensure that staffing plans for ongoing and upcoming bids and projects are aligned with overall capacity and business goals.

Experienced recruitment leader, commercial expertise, drive for continuous improvement
With several years of experience in recruitment, staffing and strategic workforce planning you bring a deep understanding of how talent drives business success. Your expertise could extent beyond the HR function and it is an advantage if you have experience as a hiring manager yourself which means that you understand both the HR and commercial aspects of an organisation.

We are also looking for:

• strong stakeholder management skills ensuring effective collaboration across teams
• Commercial acumen that enables you to align hiring strategies with business objectives
• Improvement mindset, focused on streamlining processes and removing roadblocks
• Independent, decisive and organised work style

Additionally, we expect that you have good English skills and a relevant bachelor’s degree in HR, Communication, Management or similar.
This role requires an expected of 20-30 travel days per year.
Work location is Aarhus, Denmark

Please note that you must be able to present a clean criminal record and have lived in a NATO and/or an EU country for the past seven years as we work with security-classified projects. Read more here.

Never stop developing
Systematic is truly international, proudly Danish and uniquely people-centric. Together, we write intelligent and innovative code to drive progress and improve lives. We develop IT solutions that make a real difference where it matters most. This is why we never stop developing. Here, there is room to be professional and personal. It is not just a place to work but a place to belong.
You can look forward to joining our Employees Club offering almost 100 events of both social and professional character a year – plenty to choose from. Our colleagues also highlight our canteen, which serves a variety of delicious and healthy dishes each day. In addition, we offer several employee benefits such as paid Home Internet, health insurance and a company pension scheme. Finally, we are always up for a friendly game of padel at our new padel court in Aarhus!

Start your development here
We will be assessing applications on an ongoing basis as we wish to welcome our new colleague as soon as possible, so click Apply Now and send us your CV today.
If you have any questions, you are always welcome to contact us on tel. +45 8943 2000 and ask for Jakob Risbjerg, VP Defence Services.