Two skilled girls have been introduced on this yr to guide the HR and advertising efforts at Common Robots. Apart from each being Vice Presidents in a male dominated trade, Lotte Sodemann Sørensen and Susanne Ejsted Isaksson share the idea that the prerequisite for profitable progress is workers thriving and rising inside the group. They see this as the best way to pleased and happy prospects, who can notice concepts, objectives and goals with robots, altering the best way individuals work and dwell.
Right here, you’ll be able to meet Lotte and Susanne, and be taught what they need to obtain and the place they see potentialities.
Lotte Sodemann Sørensen – Vice President Human Assets
With an extended profession in several tech- and media corporations, Lotte is used to working with workers who develop, create and remodel by work which impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals every day. Few industries have undergone such a radical change because the world of media, the place new applied sciences and enterprise fashions have turned every part the wrong way up. In flip, this challenges workers to work with adjustments in method, processes and methods to assume.
Lotte’s profession has taught her the best way to navigate in advanced international corporations with nice changeability, and has been concerned in varied departments, starting from gross sales to advertising and customer support. Her profession took off in a startup – Den Blå Avis – which was purchased by American eBay.
Right here, Lotte grew to become a part of a big group, which was the place her curiosity in working with HR actually began. She has labored with massive international HR-projects at eBay and is aware of how vital it’s that workers really feel included when a small firm all of the sudden turns into part of one thing larger.
All through her profession Lotte has periodically lived overseas however got here again to Denmark when she was provided a place within the famend film- and media-company Nordisk Movie, as a director for HR, Individuals & Tradition. That was a possibility she couldn’t move up. After virtually 5 years within the service of the polar bear, Nordisk Movie’s distinct mascot, the time has come for her to attempt a brand new journey at Common Robots.
Like coming dwelling
“To begin at Common Robots is nearly like coming dwelling once more. My father labored at a brewery, and I grew up with massive manufacturing machines, the place the staff needed to carry out exhausting handbook labor which took a toll on their our bodies. The danger of getting injured was excessive. Right here, I skilled how robots and automatization created a extra productive office with higher situations, extra security and extra potentialities for progress,” says Lotte.
Lotte is busy at work attending to know Common Robots, the group in addition to the tradition. She is happy to search out the small seeds, which must be taken care of and nourished, in order that they’ll develop into one thing nice and robust. This contains every part from graduate- and chief applications, to making a shared international mindset and a robust tradition. The opportunity of mobility throughout nations can be a theme within the international group which fascinates Lotte.
“As somebody accountable for HR, I believe it’s so vital that I do know the corporate’s merchandise, industrial potentialities and prospects, in order that I perceive the potential and may put together the corporate for enlargement and progress in new and present markets. I hope the group will expertise me as an individual who sees, listens and is current. I wish to be related for the entire group on a worldwide scale”, concludes Lotte, who appears to be like ahead to persevering with to satisfy extra new colleagues, prospects and companions in Common Robots.
Susanne Ejsted Isaksson – Vice President Advertising and marketing
With a background as a frontrunner within the IT-world at corporations equivalent to HP and IBM, Susanne has been very drawn to attracting extra feminine skills and making a extra balanced workforce in a enterprise which has traditionally struggled with doing precisely that. To Susanne it’s about creating a horny and related office, the place phrases are matched by actions.
It is usually vital that there’s a give attention to human values, and an understanding that wellbeing and “work happiness – life steadiness”, as Susanne calls it, is the muse for outcomes and progress.
“To me the job alternative at Common Robots is in some ways my dream job. I’ve held many vital positions at massive firms prior to now, however after I ended at my newest job, my aim was to discover a barely smaller-scale firm in a progress section. That is the place Common Robots is an ideal match”, tells a contented and energetic Susanne.
Susanne will amongst different issues be tasked with creating overview and construction within the advertising operate, and thru that take advertising to the following stage.
“Common Robots is an organization in nice progress, and issues are shifting quick. Once I began there was shortly established a typical understanding, that I’d be contributing to that construction, which in a way was missing, as a result of the corporate has grown as quick because it has. It wanted slightly extra concrete within the basis, so to say, and that can come once you create a tangible construction for the best way to cooperate and lay plans. It’s a tremendous thrilling course of,” explains Susanne.
An organization with a robust entrepreneurial spirit
Susanne feels very nicely obtained at Common Robots. She senses a robust entrepreneurial spirit by the corporate, which in flip provides a drive and a implausible vitality. The tempo is quick, which emphasizes the necessity for construction within the advertising division, in order that workers know what’s most vital, and what’s anticipated. Clearcut plans will assist focusing, prioritizing and creating nice outcomes.
“I’ve nice ambitions for advertising and specifically excessive expectations of the human elements, and the way we greatest can work collectively. I want to be a job mannequin who promotes this “work happiness – life steadiness”, which is so vital. In my personal life I do quite a lot of issues to search out that steadiness. I train, spend time in nature, meditate and I’ve a coach. We have now to be people at the start. This implies, amongst different issues, that it’s okay to not be pleased each single day. Issues occur on this planet round us, which might have an effect on us, and there have to be room for that. I’ve at all times been very formidable on my and the group’s behalf – however by no means at the price of the human,” says Susanne, who’s wanting ahead to working with all of the expertise there’s at Common Robots.
