Sofia Björkman

Head of People Business Partnering | Organisational growth

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

About

Experience

  • Epassi (2 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of People Business Partnering
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      Founded in Helsinki in 2007, Epassi is a pioneering employee benefits technology provider, and leading global multi-benefits platform with a strong presence in the Nordics, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and France. Epassi Group serves more than 50,000 employers and over 30 million employees, with a partner network of more than 100,000 service providers. Epassi is a leading fintech company, recognized by the Financial Times as one of the fastest growing companies in Europe in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and ranked 32nd on Europe’s Long-Term Growth Champions 2025 list. Epassi Group is backed by TA Associates and Warburg Pincus.

    • Head of People & Culture, Sweden
      Mar 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Dual role combining group-wide culture and leadership strategy with local P&C leadership in Sweden. At group level, responsible for scaling culture and leadership capabilities across markets, driving the Culture & Values agenda and leading our group-wide leadership development program to support rapid growth and business execution. In Sweden, led the People & Culture function and served as member of the Swedish management team, partnering closely with business leaders across the full employee lifecycle — from labour law and engagement to leadership and organisational development.

  • Head of People at Speqta
    Nov 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Member of the Executive Leadership Team, reporting to the CEO and leading the Group People strategy. Built and scaled the People function to support rapid growth, embedding leadership capability, culture, performance management and scalable talent acquisition. Owned People due diligence and post-merger integration during M&A, strengthening organisational alignment and governance.

  • Advisa AB (Full-time · 3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Chief Human Resources Officer
      Feb 2021 - Oct 2021 · 9 mos

      Advisa is a fast growing scaleup fintech company focused on consumer loan broking. Advisa was acquired by Nordic Capital and merged with Sambla to become Sambla Group. Member of the executive team, leading the People & Culture strategy during rapid expansion. Built and scaled the People function, strengthened leadership capability and embedded structures to support performance and engagement across the organisation. Led the People due diligence process in connection with the acquisition by Nordic Capital and the post-merger people integration.

    • Head of HR
      Feb 2020 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Managing the People- and Office management team including responsibility for setting the strategy and agenda for the team to execute on.

    • HR Manager
      Jun 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

      My responsibilities included building and growing the People function along with the expansive growth of Advisa focusing on recruitment, performance, employee engagement, labor law etc. Overall responsible for all People related initiatives including the People team.

  • HR Generalist at Syntronic - A Global Design House
    Aug 2017 - Jun 2018 · 11 mos

    Partnered with managers across five offices on the full employee lifecycle, supporting leadership, talent development, recruitment and employee relations. Led growth-focused early-career recruitment initiatives, strengthening the employer brand among engineering students through targeted university partnerships, events and internship programs.

  • Academic Work (Stockholm, Sverige)
    • Consultant Manager
      Jan 2017 - Aug 2017 · 8 mos

      Including e.g. sales, recruitment, work environment management and staff responsibility for consultants.

    • Staffing and recruitment assistant
      Feb 2016 - Dec 2016 · 11 mos