With a new CEO on board and a newly appointed Director for People & Culture, Sanistål has focused on the key elements of developing the company and creating continuous results since the beginning of the year. HR has been elevated to top management, has its own director, and has been renamed People & Culture to signal that the focal point for good performance is people and collaboration, with the goal of enhancing motivation, engagement, and performance.
As a new initiative to ensure the future talent pool at Sanistål, the company is launching a brand new graduate program for young highly educated candidates.
“We need the younger generation's perspective and qualified input into our way of doing business. With the graduate program, we will ensure a pipeline of skilled candidates with a strong business understanding who, after two years, will be able to step into permanent positions in all parts of the organization,” says Sanistål's CEO Claudio Christensen.
In a special arrangement, each graduate will be paired with their own personal mentor from Sanistål's top management, whom they will meet with on a monthly basis.
“I will personally be a mentor for several candidates, and together we will identify where their competencies and interests can best be utilized. My role will then be to help ensure they have the right conditions to develop within the organization,” says Claudio Christensen.
Interdisciplinarity and communication at the forefront
The two-year graduate program will be offered each year and will be tailored to each candidate based on their interests and competencies. Every quarter, all participants will undergo a common training program, and a common requirement for all is that they will rotate within Sanistål for placements lasting 2-6 months.
“This will counter silo thinking and instead ensure that they gain a strong understanding of our business. With broad insights and a network of relationships across the organization, the candidates will enhance both their work tasks and the decisions they are involved in making,” says Sanistål's Director of People & Culture Svend Pedersen, continuing:
“The candidates we are looking for must have an interest in and ability to communicate across the company. We not only need subject matter specialists with high averages.”
Svend Pedersen emphasizes that the purpose of the graduate program is broader than just positioning Sanistål as an attractive company for young academics.
“Young highly educated candidates who can work analytically and data-driven will contribute to greater diversity in our workforce. In combination with many skilled employees who have worked at Sanistål for a long time and possess great detailed knowledge and insight, we will achieve the perfect mix,” says Svend Pedersen.
Sanistål is now advertising the new graduate positions and expects to hire the first six to eight graduates to start in September.
Contact person
Svend Pedersen, Director of People & Culture: 22 74 68 91
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A new talent program will equip Sanistål with young, highly educated workforce
As part of a larger initiative to unlock the potential within the organization and enhance engagement and competitiveness, Sanistål is launching a new two-year graduate program to recruit and develop younger highly educated candidates who can step in and influence the company in the coming years. Uniquely, each candidate will be paired with a director as a mentor.