Friederike (Levana) Stein
Chief People & Culture Officer
Experience
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
1 year 3 months Germany
Chief People & Culture Officer
Bergman Clinics Germany
Building a progressive HR Department and improving Company Culture.
Bergman Clinics is the largest network of focused clinics for plannable treatments in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany.
Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 3 months Heidelberg, Germany
Owner, Interim Manager, HR Leader, Consultant, Co-Founder
Culture@Heart – Rike Stein (Self-Employed) / Culture@Heart GbR
- Interim Management
- Talent Management
- HR Business Partnering
- Advisory on Culture & Leadership
- Leadership Development, Team Development
- HR Strategy
- EVP, Employer Branding, Talent, Performance
- Facilitating/ Training
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
1 year 3 monthsChief People Officer
Marley Spoon AG
Marley Spoon delivers pre-portioned, high-quality ingredients right to your door so you can cook delicious meals in just a few steps.
Reporting to the CEO & Founder.
- Developing the people function through internal development & coaching and hiring external talent
- Creating the people strategy, talent strategy & total rewards strategy
- Defining the Employee Value proposition including creative tagline (When You Grow, We Grow), launch & Employer Branding Activities
- Leading a people team of 49 across 3 continents: Europa, US & Australia
- Establishing and improving internal HR processes form office security to new hybrid working culture
- Establishing the HR Business Partner function
- Supporting the creation of company values & culture building initiatives
- Close collaboration with the Remuneration Committee of the Supervisory Board
- Creation of an inclusive talent & performance management approach respecting the idiosyncratic rater effect
- Preparing the launch of one global payroll provide and a new HRIS landscape
- Scope: 2.000 employees, EUR 350m NR, Team of 49
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
3 years Heidelberg, Germany
HR Director DACH & Nordics, Business Unit Hygiene
RB Hygiene Home Deutschland GmbH
world’s largest consumer health and hygiene company.
Reporting into the General Manager DACH & Nordics & Area HRD in Amsterdam.
- Heading the Human Resources Function & Facility Services (about 20 employees) – commercial business & R&D site
- Creating the HR strategy for the region
- Implementation of strategic HR priorities in the region
- Close collaboration with the Centers of Excellences regarding Reward & L&D
- Participation in global projects such as contributing to the introduction of various Success Factor modules (talent, recruitment, onboarding)
- Leading & implementing restructuring projects
- Leading the transformation into 2 separate business units from the HR side
- Onboarding & coaching new management team members
- Preserving and enhancing RB specific corporate culture – working on a purpose-led company image
- Close cooperation with the local works councils, preparing EWC meetings
- Scope: ca. 500 employees, EUR 500m NR, Team of 20
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
3 monthsSabbatical
Travel around South East Asia
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
2 years 6 months Amsterdam, Netherlands
Talent Director Europe & North America, Russia & CIS, AUS & NZ
RB - Reckitt Benckiser B.V.
world’s largest consumer health and hygiene company.
Reporting into Global HR Director L&D & Talent Acquisition.
- Succession Planning
- Assessment & Development Centers
- Future Leaders Program
- Talent Upgrade program
- Talent Toolkit Creation & Implementation
- Talent Evaluation Process
- Creating & implementing global onboarding
- Scaling best practices
- Implementing Talent Modul Success Factors
- Implementing & Leading 6 Talent Acquisition Teams across the area North America, Europe, ANZ
- Scaling best practices
- Roll out Global Recruitment Workshop for Hiring Managers & including unconscious bias training for recruiters
- Implementation KPI driven recruitment process with cost saving across the area of 8, GBP
- Implementation for Leadership Journey in Area
- TTT for HR facilitators
- Facilitating leadership workshops
- Designing & implementing training calendar for area
- Advising local HR teams on training & development actions
- Responsible for area commercial graduate program
- Scaling best practices from different markets across the area
- Scope: ca. 13k employees, Team of 25
Oct 2012 - Mar 2015
2 years 6 months Heidelberg, Germany
Senior HR Business Partner/ Commercial HR Manager
RB - Reckitt Benckiser Germany
Reporting into Regional HR Director Central Europe.
- Responsible for all areas of HR for the German Commercial business
- Leading team of 6 with 1 HRBP, HR Controller, HR Generalists, Recruiter
- Partnering with the business (commercial functions, focus on sales)
- Cooperation with the commercial works councils
- Implementation Taleo
- Scope: 350 employees, Team of 6
Jul 2010 - Sep 2012
2 years 3 months Frankfurt, Germany
Manager HR Business Partner
Manpower GmbH & Co. KG
Reporting to the HR Director Germany.
- HR Strategy
- HR Business Partner
- Compensation & Benefits
- HR concepts
- Recruitment
- Implementation of ATS, ACs & Development Centres
- competency-based interviews
- coaching
- leading the team of 4 HRBPs & HR Controller/ C&B Specialist
- works council cooperation
- Scope: 1.200 internal employees
Jan 2009 - Jul 2010
7 months Frankfurt, Germany
Teamleader HR Business Partner
Manpower GmbH & Co. KG
Reporting to the HR Director Germany.
- Leading the change & introduction of HR Business Partners at Manpower Germany and the continuous development of the concept
- Compilation and leadership of a team of 3 HR Business Partners
- The responsibility for internal recruitment throughout Germany
- Advising and accompanying senior executives on all personal-related & labour law matters
- support of restructurings
- Trusting cooperation with the works council (negotiations on social plans, balance of interests, BVen & GBVen)
Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
1 year Frankfurt, Germany
HR Generalist
Manpower GmbH & Co. KG
Mar 2008 - Dec 2009
10 months Bucharest, Romania
Executive Search Consultant
Amrop Hever Global Executive Search / Stein & Partner Management Consulting
Apr 2007 - Feb 2008
11 months Frankfurt, Germany
Internal Recruitment Manager
Manpower GmbH & Co. KG
Sep 2005 - Mar 2007
1 year 7 months Frankfurt, Germany
Assistant to Director Permanent Placement
Manpower GmbH & Co. KG
Summary
My passion is to craft & drive the best people experience & an energizing & inspiring company culture which enables better attraction, retention & inspires people to unleash their potential which will enable business performance & success.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Italian
Intermediate
Dutch
Elementary
Romanian
Elementary
Education
Oct 2001 - Jun 2002
Humboldt University of Berlin
Languages, Business, Economics · Berlin, Germany
Oct 2000 - Jun 2000
The University of Queensland
Business Management · Australia
Oct 1998 - Jun 2004
The University of Freiburg
Magister Artium · Languages, Business, Economics · Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified Business Trainer
Certified New Work Facilitator
Certified Korn Ferry 360 & KFALP Coach
Certified Business Coach
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