Henning Michel
Interim HR Legal Consulting
Experience
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
1 yearInterim HR Legal Consulting
Städtische Werke Kassel
- Advice on the collective agreement for utilities (TVV) regarding job classification, grading and job descriptions
- Compensation & Benefit, analysis of the regional labor market
Dec 2023 - Jun 2024
7 monthsInterim Recruiter
D&B Audiotechnik
- Blue collar recruiting, 40 positions, electricians, carpenters, painters
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
9 monthsInterim HR Legal Consulting
EnBW
- Set up and design of a pilot project to review false self-employment, unauthorized temporary work and compliance cases
- Development of an FAQ guide on all relevant aspects
- Advice on various social security, labor, criminal, civil and procurement law aspects
- Creation of a questionnaire to be reviewed by hiring managers before each new assignment
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
4 monthsInterim Recruiter
Prüf- und Forschungsinstitut
- Market analysis
- Advice on Compensation & Benefit
- Optimization of Kununu profile
- Recruitment of:
- Test engineers for electrical engineering, mechatronics and measurement & control technology
- Technicians for measurement & control technology
- Key account managers
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
3 monthsInterim Recruiter
IT Versicherungsdienstleister
- Recruitment of DevOps developers
- Advice on compensation structures
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
1 year 6 monthsInterim Legal Consultant
L-Bank Baden Württemberg
- Review and approval of grant applications under Bridging Aid 3, 3+ and 4
- Fraud prevention
- Compliance investigations, in-depth audits, reporting
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
5 monthsInterim Headhunter
Obermeyer Planen + Beraten GmbH
- Engineering firm, 1800 employees, Southlink infrastructure project
- Recruitment of civil engineers, architects and lawyers for permit procedures
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
3 monthsInterim Recruiter
TX Logistik
- Subsidiary of the Italian state railway
- Process consulting, employer branding, ads and marketing
- Market analysis
- Active sourcing: marketing management, social media manager, shift supervisors, train dispatchers
Mar 2019 - Sep 2022
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Pharmaunternehmen im Saarland
- Advice on various HR issues
- Compliance checks
- SWOT analysis
- Advice on splits, spin-offs and carve-outs, shareholder separation
- Mediation and negotiations with the works council
- Active sourcing: executive assistant, production managers, SCM leads, OTC specialists
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
2 monthsInterim Recruiter
Algeco Modulbau
- Advice on processes, employer marketing and job ads
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
2 monthsInterim Recruiter
Panalpina
- Advice on processes, job ads and marketing
- Labor market analysis
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
4 monthsInterim Recruiter
Alupress
- Advice on processes, structures, employer branding, job ads and campus marketing
- Active sourcing: engineers, technicians
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
4 monthsInterim Leitung Recruiting
TÜV SÜD
- Set up and lead the recruiting department
- Strategic consulting for HR leadership on building a recruiting organization
- Process analysis and restructuring with HR leadership
- Realignment of employer marketing, employer branding, campus marketing
- Advice on Compensation & Benefit EMEA
- Briefing of new in-house recruiters
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
3 monthsInterim Recruiter
Novares
- Restructuring processes, coordination with headquarters in Monaco and Paris
- Advice on Compensation & Benefit
- Advice on talent development and recruiting
- Active sourcing: product managers, HR managers, production managers
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
5 monthsInterim HR Manager
Arkal Automotive
- Built and led an HR department in coordination with HR in Israel
- Advice on required IT equipment for HR
- Introduced a recruiting reporting system
- Negotiations with works council on HR reporting
- Contract negotiations with staffing agencies
- Mediation with works council
- Revision and standardization of employment contracts
- Negotiations on Compensation & Benefit, pay systems
- Active sourcing: production managers, injection molding project engineers, HR managers
May 2017 - Jun 2017
2 monthsInterim HR Business Partner / Recruiter
SAM Automotive
- Advice on ERA implementation and works council negotiations
- Advice on employer marketing
- Compensation & Benefit market analysis
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
7 monthsTalent Acquisition Manager EMEA
Belden Hirschmann
- Mechanical engineering / automation
- Led and coordinated recruiting across Europe, 20 staff in DE, GB, BE, NL, LUX, DK, IT, FR, SE, NO, CZE
- EMEA-wide contract monitoring
- Advice on ERA implementation
- Works council negotiations on ERA implementation and new agreements
- Close collaboration with works council
- Compliance
- Social media marketing
- Planning and organization of campus marketing
- Direct candidate approach via LinkedIn & Xing
- Advice on improving Kununu profile
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
1 monthInterim Headhunter
Fresenius Medical Care
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
11 monthsInterim Headhunter
ISRA Vision AG
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
6 monthsInterim Leiter Recruiting
Catalent Pharma Solutions GmbH
- Led recruiting
- Process optimization in recruiting
- Works council negotiations, mediation
- Advice on active sourcing, employer branding and social media
- Planning and organization of university fairs
- Social media marketing on LinkedIn and Xing
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
6 monthsInterim Leiter Recruiting
redcoon / Media Saturn / Metro AG
- Advised Head of HR International on talent development, employer marketing, contract alignment, Compensation & Benefit, restructuring, site closures
- At Erfurt site:
- Set up a call center, 50 staff
- Organized a candidate fair
- Employer branding
- Compensation & Benefit negotiations
- On-site talent development
- Advised on HR reorganization & process optimization
- Coaching site management in customer care
- At Munich site:
- Recruiting for a new subsidiary acquiring companies, including:
- M&A and contract lawyer
- Due diligence specialist
- International tax advisor
- At Aschaffenburg & Munich sites:
- Advised on executive recruiting
- Compensation & Benefit negotiations
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
2 monthsInterim Leiter Recruiting
mytoys / Otto Group
- Led recruiting
- Reorganization, process optimization in recruiting
- Video training on body language & target-group communication
- Recruiter performance monitoring
- Development of assessment centers
- Updating and tailoring company presentations by candidate group
- Redesign of recruitment guides for various roles
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
4 monthsInterim HR Business Partner
Pinion
- Workforce planning, performance review, talent development
- Candidate selection with management
- Designed incentive and pay system
- Contract negotiations, Compensation/Benefit, target agreements
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
2 monthsInterim Recruiter
Rexam Healthcare
- Recruited 40 new production staff in quality and production of thermoplastics, injection molding and 3 trainees
- Compensation/Benefit negotiations
- Talent development
- Works council negotiations
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
4 monthsInterim HR Manager
Groupe Pierre & Vacances
- Led HR with 3 staff
- Negotiations with district, economic development and employment agency on grants for site setup
- Led recruiting
- Hired 100 staff from DE, FR, LU, NL in 4 months, including all contract negotiations
- Built HR department, planned processes
- Works council agreements
- Developed onboarding and training plans
- Planned further training and certifications with providers
- Organized and ran recruitment events at chambers, schools, universities and employment agencies
- Payroll and salary administration
- Data protection officer
Jan 2009 - Dec 2025
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Maschinenbauzulieferer
- SWOT analysis
- Strategic advice on conflicts and works council negotiations
- Layoff of 40 engineers & technicians due to site relocation
- Transition from TV Metal to ERA, drafted works agreement and negotiated with works council
- Active sourcing of engineers and IT specialists
- Wage negotiations with works council, bonus models for exempt staff, target agreements
- Talent development
- Annual compliance checks
- Loyalty tests for engineers and technicians
Jan 2008 - Dec 2010
3 yearsInterim Assistent der Geschäftsführung, Leiter Personal und Kundenservice, Inhouse Jurist
mittelständisches Stadtwerk
- Managed 20 staff, including 4 in HR
- Advised management board
- Led customer service, call center, billing, supply blocks
- Restructured multiple departments
- Separated grid and sales/unbundling
- Introduced smart meters
- Training on handling difficult customers, de-escalation, sales
- Works council negotiations on restructuring, collective bargaining, Compensation & Benefit and layoffs
- Job evaluations and reclassifications after restructuring
- Introduced electronic time tracking and monitoring
- Renewed, consolidated and negotiated works agreements post merger of 5 companies
- Data protection officer
- In-house lawyer for labor, social security and contract law, especially liability in CHP and contracting, wind turbines, negotiations with insurers and service providers, general energy law advice
Jan 2005 - Dec 2006
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DEBEKA Versicherung
- Recruitment of professionals, trainees and apprentices
- Telephone training for apprentices
- Sales training
- Sales coaching
Jan 2002 - Dec 2011
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Handyshopkette (18 Shops)
- Franchising advice and negotiations
- Single point of contact for all staff HR issues
- HR consulting, workforce planning
- Recruiting and interviews
- Compensation & Benefit
- Sales controlling
- Sales training on buying signals, objections, cross-selling
- Feedback on sales methods
- Performance reviews
- Layoffs
Jan 1995 - Dec 2025
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Unternehmensberatung & Interim Management
- Legal & HR consulting, recruiting, talent development, performance reviews, works council support, mediation, contract law advice, project management, compliance, fraud prevention
Jan 1995 - Dec 2012
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unabhängiger Finanzdienstleister
- HR consulting, development of an HR concept
- Talent development
- Recruiting for sales, trainees and interns
- Compensation & Benefit negotiations
- Commission structures and target agreements
- Compliance checks
- Data protection
- Training phone sales teams
- Company mergers, site closures, layoff of 35 staff
Jan 1995 - Dec 2004
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französischer Lebensmittelkonzern
- Planning & building a sales network, recruiting field sales staff and freelance reps (§84 German Commercial Code)
- Onboarding new hires in the sector
- Sales training and coaching
- Leading field sales teams
- Joint customer visits with reps and follow-up evaluations
- Developing a marketing concept and PR contacts
- Legal advice on contract law and receivables management
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedFrench
AdvancedItalian
Elementary Education
Oct 2007 - Jun 2009
Fernuniversität Hagen
Business administration and corporate management, focus on strategic management, organization and leadership · Germany
Oct 1990 - Jun 1995
Universität des Saarlandes
Diplom-Jurist · Law, economics and history · Germany
Oct 1976 - Jun 1989
Gymnasium Dormagen
Germany
Certifications & licenses
Trade permit §34c GewO
Data protection officer
IHK Karlsruhe
Specialist lawyer course in labor law
Steuer & Wirtschafts - Akademie GmbH
Specialist lawyer course in tax law
Steuer & Wirtschafts - Akademie GmbH
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