Annika Dellås

BIOGRAPHY

Annika Dellås
Annika DellåsSr Management Consultant HR

Annika Dellås is an experienced, communicative leader with a business focus and a big-picture approach. As founder of Dellås People Management, she works with consulting assignments for small and medium-sized companies, and with human resources issues and change management at a strategic and operational level. She has assisted companies in both growth and downsizing, and has solid international experience. Strategically or operationally, as a leader or advisor, Annika works from the needs of the business to find solutions to problems and strategies that focus on results. Annika happily offers meeting facilitation both digitally and in person, tailoring both formats for optimal effectiveness.

”I have been running my consulting company since 2015, working on building and developing the structures and means for human resources management to support the company’s business objectives. I use my drive and ability to quickly get a sense of the big picture and see the structures of the business. I have a consultative and process-oriented approach where it is important to start where the business actually is in the moment and not where we wish it was. I am good at asking the right questions to identify connections and patterns. As a coach to managers and colleagues, I am appreciated for my sensibility, and I am a clear and motivating leader who includes both the individual and the team.”

Annika Dellås

EXPERIENCE

Below is a selection of professional experiences that has collectively built my skills as a consultant, board member and individual.

Consulting Experience

In my years as a consultant, I have been involved in a number of assignments with varying content and arrangements:

  • Salary review process, from start to finish, for 4,500 people, including preparations and negotiations with the unions.
  • HR part in a transformation project with the purpose to centralise the financial structure from multiple to a limited numbers of locations, including the change management process with plans, negotiations and implementation.
  • Different change management projects with personnel changes of varying scope.
  • To plan, prepare, implement and lead a digital vision and value workshop for management and employees.
  • Operational HR responsibilities while introducing and implementing a new HR strategic model.
  • Advising CEO and management teams on specific HR issues, as well as the general link between organisation& business and people & organisation.
  • Preparation of an internal Personnel Handbook and acting as a sounding board to the HR Director.
  • Implementation of a 5-shift schedule in a production operation with a big variety of schedules and with the purpose to get a sustainable and stable solution in place.
  • Operative HR manager with a dual mission to lead and change the HR organisation and to conduct an HR audit.
  • Execution of negotiation assignments in the context of personal reasons and rehabilitation.

Professional Experience

  • AstraZeneca – Employee Relations Partner for Sweden.
    Acted as a sounding board and advisor to managers and employees on employment law issues. Led co-determination negotiations in Swedish and English and trained both Swedish and foreign managers and employees in employment law. Was the company’s labour law expert during the closure of the company’s facility in Lund and negotiated the framework for personnel-related issues with the local parties. Developed trade union relations based on the collective agreements concluded by the company and was elected “Union’s HR person of the year” in 2013. Identified a business need around resource and skills staffing in research and proposed and initiated a working model to map this need, clarify the issues and decide on solutions.
  • AstraZeneca HR Service Center Lead Sweden
    Led AstraZeneca’s HR Service Center in Sweden with 10 employees in a change process, which involved a winding up in the context of the company outsourcing. Led the team with a balanced mix between the requirement for delivery and the expectations and needs of employees to work on their own transition. The result was achieved with good delivery through to completion and a good transition for staff, where personal considerations could be taken into account.
  • AstraZeneca – Global HR Business Partner UK
    Participated in the global change effort to transform IT and create a new shared and global infrastructure, a project that impacted all 189 businesses worldwide. The project was led from the UK.
  • AstraZeneca – Regional HR Director in Croatia with stationing in Zagreb.
    Responsibilities included eight markets with 375 employees in a high-growth market environment. Built up the HR function for Croatia/Slovenia/Serbia/Romania/Bulgaria and Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania. A two-year assignment to build up and recruit three local HR managers.

    • Introduced a structure of practical digital tools for the basic HR processes, launched under the concept “My Life with AstraZeneca”.
    • Introduced a concept for management and follow-up of current HR processes.
    • Introduced a way of working with the annual budget process and introduced specific KPIs to measure HR performance in relation to the set business objectives.
  • Business Development Manager at Thomson Fakta AB, responsible for a team of 10 people. Primary task was to change the business model from publishing-oriented to a profit-driven business unit, which included books, interactive digital tools and databases, based on internet and intranet technology. Implemented a new strategy and market segmentation, including a new organisation with new procedures/processes, goal descriptions, project structure and decision making. Developed and launched “Lönevågen”, a digital salary comparison tool, and further developed a customer-specific digital employee handbook.
  • Human Resources Manager for Volvo Aero Engine Services.
    A workshop with 580 employees tasked with changing the direction of the company from a technically focused maintenance workshop to a profit-driven business unit. Developed the HR function to be more customer focused, and introduced new competency profiles, procedures and goals. Introduced a new structured approach towards trade unions, including new co-determination procedures. The situation was transformed from a power struggle to one of trust and clear rules. Started a management network to build networks and coach line managers.
  • HR Business Partner at Akzo Nobel
  • Group Director, Recruitment at Mölnlycke AB, SCA

Executive Board Assignments

Branches

I have a broad experience in various industries in pharmaceutical, life science and process sectors. I have also worked in aero engine maintenance, consumer goods, information management services and human resources consulting.

International Experience

  • Lived and worked in Croatia with responsibility for the Balkan and Baltic countries
  • Worked with many countries in Europe with a focus on the UK
  • Occasional global responsibilities including work with the USA and Asia

Leadership

I have always acted as a leader, both in my professional life and in my associations. One example is the leadership I have worked with for many years in the music world, specifically in choral singing. On two occasions I have been the regional leader of an organisation with 18 choirs and 900 members. Led change work in specific choirs and for the region and from 2021 elected to the international board of the parent organisation. In my professional life I have led groups, changes, projects and processes.

Education and Training

  • Investor education, two days, Asynjor Invest AB, 2023
  • Action Learning & Facilitation, Move Management AB, 2016
  • Certification training – Right Focus in Board work, Styrelseakademien through Women in Progress, 2014
  • Labour Law Steps 1-3, Tommy Iseskog, 2013-2021
  • Developing Managers Program, 9 days for managers, AstraZeneca, 2006-2007
  • Business & Markets, Uppsala University, 2003
  • Management Consultant training with focus on organisational behaviour and group processes, 12 days, Sinnova & Risling Partners, 1998
  • Bachelors degree in Administration, Human Resources Administration, University of Gothenburg, 1982
  • Chemistry programme, Ascheberg Secondary School, Gothenburg, 1979

Language

Mother tongue Swedish, fluent in English and intermediate German.

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Intenco AB – Professional HR consultants with a focus on results.

Intenco has HR consultants with extensive operational experience from various industries and environments. Their ambition is to be the leading choice for companies in need of professional support in their HR work. www.intenco.se