Beatrice Z. - Interim Senior HR Manager/Business Partner

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Berlin, Germany

Experience

Oct 2023 - Present

2 years 3 months

Berlin, Germany

Interim Senior HR Manager/Business Partner

Both operational and strategic HR expert with 8+ years of experience in Berlin-based SaaS start-ups/scale-ups.
Proven track record, expertise and best practices in building HR functions from scratch.
Experienced in partnering with VP-/C-level and founders while maintaining a trusting relationship with staff.

Dec 2020 - Mar 2023

2 years 4 months

Berlin, Germany

Senior People Business Partner

Lendis GmbH

Hired as the first person in the company dedicated to HR to build stable and scalable HR processes and grow the HR department in all its different sub-teams.
Accompanied the growth of the company from 45 to 150+ employees and the growth of the HR department from 1 to 9 employees (POM, L&D, BP) while operating as the most senior HR representative within the company during entire employment.
Headquartered in Berlin, EOR staff in EMEA + APAC, hybrid work setup, 15 local labor laws.
Reporting to co-founder/CEO.
Design and administrate the employee lifecycle for global remote EOR and Germany-based employees, ensure compliance with local labor laws and occupational health and safety, maintain HRIS, contract-, document-, and absence management.
Perform pre-payroll for 150+ HC, provide reporting and analysis for finance + investors.
Immigration + visa/work permit applications, relocation procedures.
Lead and facilitate two rounds of layoffs.
Manage a team of People Operations Manager.
Partner with and advise 21 people managers (TL to VP-/C-level and co-founders), the TA and L+D team.
Conceptualize and execute the people strategy for the business unit to deliver targeted impact on org. design and development.
Shape the feedback culture at Lendis, design and host 10 ‘Performance and Growth Cycles’ across the organization.
Foster future-focused leadership skills at Lendis, e.g. host ‘Leadership Bootcamp’ to coach first-time people managers.
Be a sparring partner for the C-level in organizational comms.
Facilitate quarterly ‘Heartbeat Survey’ and respective employee engagement + retention insights/actions, conduct comp & ben strategies and HR analytics.

Jan 2020 - Nov 2020

11 months

Berlin, Germany

HR Business Partner

Urban Sports GmbH

Hired to consult leadership team, drive organizational change and run projects on performance management, feedback culture, learning and development topics.
Headquartered in Berlin, subsidiaries in EMEA, hybrid work setup.
Reporting to Head of HR Business Partners.
Be an internal sparring partner to the POM team, especially on German labor- and immigration law, relocation, global mobility.
Partner with and advise 18 people managers (TL to VP-/C-level), focus on the business unit to drive organizational development.
COVID-19: accompany two rounds of layoffs, introduce ‘Kurzarbeit’, remote work + hybrid leadership, lead the closure of an entire department, consult managers during this crisis with comms strategies, skill training + employee engagement measures.
Coach first-time people managers by implementing ‘100 days in lead’ program, craft a company-wide performance management setup with a competence profile framework.

Nov 2015 - Jul 2019

3 years 9 months

Berlin, Germany

HR Manager

GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH

Hired as second person in the HR Ops team to help building stable and scalable HR processes and administer the company’s growth from 160 to 560+ employees, >70 nationalities.
Headquartered in Berlin, subsidiaries in EMEA + APAC, in-office.
Reporting to Head of HR.
Craft and manage the employee lifecycle (e.g. *boarding processes, contract-, document-, and absence management, HRIS, labor law and occupational health and safety compliance). E.g.: onboarded a HC of 100 Customer Service (CS) employees by myself in Q1 +Q2 2017.
Lead and facilitate the company-wide monthly 2-day onboarding event ‘Welcome Days’, 56 participants in peak month.
Lead pre-payroll for 450+ HC, operational reporting for Finance.
Maintain the virtual share pool, conduct regular company-wide trainings, implement a virtual share tool, provide reports to investors, C-level and external auditors.
Manage a team of HR working students and interns.
Immigration + visa/work permit applications, relocation processes.
Partner with and advise 10 people managers and workforce management of the CS department (Associate TL to Head of CS).
Conduct a set of training sessions for people managers of CS, e.g. labor law, working time act, virtual share program, payroll, …
Accomplish performance and feedback cycles and TD for CS.
Execute multiple employee engagement and retention measures across CS, help drive a +200% increase in tenure of staff YTY.

Summary

Both operational and strategic HR expert with 10+ years of experience in Berlin-based SaaS start-ups/scale-ups. Proven track record, expertise and best practices in building HR functions from scratch. Experienced in partnering with VP-/C-level and founders while maintaining a trusting relationship with staff.

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 2014 - Jun 2016

bbw Hochschule Berlin

M.A. · Economic Sciences · Berlin, Germany

Oct 2011 - Jun 2014

bbw Hochschule Berlin

B.A. · Economic Sciences · Berlin, Germany

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