Lene Groth

Lene Groth is the current CHRO at STARK Group. Lene has previously worked as the Koncerndirektør HR at Coop Danmark from September 2014 to September 2016.

At Coop, Lene was part of the executive management team and their main responsibility was HR. Lene and their team worked with 5 banners around talent management, succession planning, and other main HR processes. The HR operations were run in a HR Service Centre with outsourced business processes such as Payroll. Each banner had their own HR business partner team, and on a corporate level, there was an Expertise Centre setup. The main focus was getting basics deliveries in place and to start measuring HR with a KPI dash board.

Lene's main achievement in their role at Coop was orchestrating a clean-up of 3 projects that had problems: an SAP/Success Factor implementation, a business process outsourcing project, and an internal movement of payroll from Finance to HR. After 14 months, they had cleaned up the processes, introduced a proper control catalogue internally, and with the supplier, created a new contract and Service Level Agreement. This gave space and time for the stores to meet the customer instead of focusing on HR processes and handling problems due to broken processes.

Secondly, Lene restructured HR and made a business partner setup with HR closer to the business and with clear governance and processes through out HR which led to a much higher co-worker satisfaction.

Lene Groth has a background in business administration and management, with a focus on corporate finance and governance. Lene has also completed certification programs in aptitude and 360° assessment from Saville Consulting. Lene is currently a member of the executive board for education at Copenhagen Business School.

Lene Groth works with Geir Thomas Fossum - CEO, Beijer Byggmaterial, Laurits Anton Jørgensen - Group General Counsel, and Daniel Robert Potok - Group CSO. Lene Groth reports to Søren P. Olesen, CEO.