Isa (R.) Siebert
Global HR Director
Experience
Nov 2023 - Mar 2024
5 months Mannheim, Germany
Global HR Director
Master Builders Solutions GmbH
- Optimization projects, coach, initiator, business languages: German/English
- Operational and partly strategic responsibility for HCM, active involvement in various project topics within the HCM team related to the merger process
- Advising leaders and employees on all HR-related topics and managing the associated operational tasks
- Restoring a trusting collaboration with the committees
Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
2 months Mayen, Germany
HR Director Germany
Ontex Healthcare Deutschland GmbH
- Optimization projects, coach, initiator, business languages: German/English
- Operational and partly strategic responsibility for HR, active involvement in various project topics within the HCM team related to the preceding merger process
- Advising leaders and employees on all HR-related topics and managing the associated operational tasks
- Restoring a trusting collaboration with the committees
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
5 months Germany
HR Manager
KLS Martin GmbH
- Optimization projects, coach, initiator, business languages: German/English
- Operational and partly strategic responsibility for HCM, active involvement in various project topics within the HCM team related to the merger process
- Advising leaders and employees on all HR-related topics and handling the associated operational tasks
- Time and preliminary payroll
- Recruiting
- Trusting collaboration with the committees
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
5 months Germany
HR Business Partner
LEO Pharma GmbH
- Optimization projects, coach, initiator
- Member of the management team, business languages: German/English
- Responsibility for HR areas, active involvement in the HR community
- Advising leaders and employees on all HR questions and labor law issues, including re-organization
- Responsible for all operational HR processes and measures, such as recruiting, personnel and organizational development, change and performance management
- Active participation in local, regional and global HR projects/processes
- Collaboration with the works council and its committees
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
6 months Hamburg, Germany
HR Director / Head of HR
Thyssen Krupp/TK Elevator Fahrtreppen GmbH
- Optimization projects, coach, initiator
- Member of the management team, business languages: German/English
- Responsibility for HR including time/payroll, health, safety, environment, active involvement in the Europe-wide HR community
- Management of all operational/analytical/strategic HR tasks
- Leading 8 direct reports
- Identifying, introducing and implementing strategic HR actions and optimization potential in existing processes
- Preparing ISO 9001 re-certification
- Implementing COVID guidelines based on current legislation and internal policies
- Constructive collaboration with the union and works council committees
- Change management – supporting various change processes
- Leadership advice and development
- Developing and introducing personnel development measures
- Handling collective and individual labor law issues
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
9 months Germany
Global Head of HR
H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH
- Developing, managing and overseeing the global HR organization of the company and subsidiaries (Germany, Thailand, USA, Japan)
- Implementing training programs, personnel strategies and intercultural communication
- Advising, coaching and training specialists and leaders
- HR support
- Member of the management team, business languages: German/English
- Managing all operational/analytical HR tasks and processes and implementing strategic HR processes and procedures
- Leading 9 direct reports
- Guiding and advising the global management team on HR matters
- Ensuring compliance with legal and internal requirements; budget responsibility
- Engaging committees for trusting and goal-oriented results
- Global optimization projects; global recruiting
- Daily hands-on work: works agreements, contract drafting, references
May 2017 - Jun 2018
1 year 2 months Singen, Germany
HR Director
Amcor Flexibles Singen GmbH
- Shaping and implementing optimization projects
- Simultaneously setting up the new organization
- Workforce planning, recruiting and development
- Advising, coaching and training specialists and leaders
- HR support
- Member of the management team, business languages: German/English
- Operational, analytical, strategic tasks
- Leading 15 direct reports
- Ensuring compliance with legal and internal requirements
- Involving committees for trusting and goal-oriented results
- Optimization projects
- Recruiting
- Managing and improving HR processes
- Daily hands-on tasks from works agreements to contract drafting and references
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
5 months Germany
HR Business Partner
GEA Group/GEA IT-Services
- Managing restructuring, downsizing and closure of business units while setting up the new organization
- Workforce planning, recruiting and development
- Advising, coaching and training specialists and leaders
- HR support
- Member of the cross-site HR team, business languages: German/English
- HR advice for the managing director, HR staff and other employees (~200) on all HR topics during wind-down, balancing interests/social plan
- Contracts, preliminary payroll, references, budget forecast completed and additional works agreements concluded
- Designing and implementing new solutions for socially responsible downsizing and severance agreements
- Supporting internal and external recruiting
- Developing and executing recommendations for development and salary measures
- Cross-site HR advice for leaders and route managers on labor law issues and executing corresponding legal strategies
- Assisting with supervisory board election coordination
- Communicating and driving changes on all these topics with works council committees
- Relocating the HR department to the new site
- Training the new HR BP
May 2015 - Aug 2015
4 months Germany
HR Specialist
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co KGaA
- Global HR recruiting activities from search to hire, mainly in Germany/China
- Advising, coaching and training specialists and leaders
- HR support
- Member of the global HR team, business languages: German/English
- Successful recruiting campaigns: presence in social media to filling open positions
- Supporting personnel, organizational and structural changes and preparing measures for future alignment, e.g., succession planning, filling vacancies, advising/coaching specialists and leaders, ensuring and reintroducing processes for current legislation and for internal/external audits under ISO 9000, 9001 and TS14049
Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
5 months Germany
HR Director
TNT Innight
- Responsible for Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic with respective works councils/unions, total ~1,500 employees
- Member of the management team and European HR group
- Leading 10 HR staff, budget responsibility; business language: English
- Personnel changes in the management team, preparing for future global structure
- Building, operating and realigning the HR department: structural changes, succession planning, filling vacancies, selecting HR system
- Mediation, conflict resolution, handling open issues between management and works councils/unions – e.g. holiday pay, bonus system, targets, labor law procedures, expanding health management
- Coaching the internally selected HR director
- Introducing leadership training by an external trainer
Aug 2013 - Dec 2014
5 months Germany
HR Director
CAT LV / CAT LC
- Responsible for two independent sites with separate works councils, total ~235 employees in NRW
- Member of the management team and European HR group
- Leading 2 staff (payroll/support) and 12 trainees/students
- Budget responsibility; business languages: English, some French
- Wind-down HR impacts of the social plan
- Building, operating and realigning the HR department as a shared-service partner
- Mentoring the internal successor for future HR director role
- Aligning all processes to the company's future global structure, across Europe, optimization to outsourcing
- Optimizing labor law differences and communication at all levels between sites, works councils/unions in France, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany
- Supporting the business unit director/country managers in strategic HR, labor law and committee communication
- Expanding personnel development and planning, including secondments
- Creating and implementing unified HR processes and standards like job postings, contracts, job profiles, org charts via Visio, cost control and HR reports
- Guiding change processes like cultural shifts in European collaboration
- Developing workplace health management
- Managing recruiting from planning to hiring
- Ensuring and reintroducing processes for internal and external audits under ISO 9000, 9001 and TS14049
May 2012 - Nov 2012
7 months Germany
HR Director
Boshoku/Toyota
- Responsible for three plants, ~700 employees in Thuringia and Bavaria
- Managed 2 plant closures and 1 new plant setup
- Member of the management team and European HR group
- Leading 2 staff (payroll/support) and 12 trainees
- Budget responsibility; business language: English
- Establishing and operating the HR department until hiring a permanent HR director
- Aligning the department and processes to the company's future structure, e.g., shift model change
- Serving as mediator, advisor and coach to optimize communications among plant management, leaders, employees and works council
- New plant setup:
- Supporting employee representatives, assisting the CEO and plant manager in union and works council communication
- Building the HR department including development
- Workforce planning with plant, production management and works council
- Creating and implementing unified HR processes and standards like job postings, contracts, job profiles, org charts in SAP, suggestion system, cost control and HR reports
- Guiding change processes like cultural integration Japan/Germany, introducing KAIZEN, Japanese safety standards and unified workwear
- Developing workplace health management e.g. on-site insurance services; expanding company doctor consultations; introducing training on addiction, burnout, bullying, motivation
- Developing onboarding programs for new employees
- Managing recruiting from planning to hiring
- Ensuring and reintroducing processes for internal and external audits under ISO 9000, 9001 and TS14049
- Coaching leaders in employee and works council meetings
- Training leaders and works council in communication, presentation and team building with an external trainer
- Preparing the 2013 HR budget plan
- Plant closures:
- Implementing social plan and severance for ~400 employees
- Developing and introducing follow-up changes via works agreements with management, union and works council; staying within budget
- Advising and supporting employees and works council members until departure
Feb 2012 - Apr 2012
3 months Darmstadt, Germany
Project Staff
Merck KGaA
- Part of national and international team to optimize job evaluations; business language: English
- Evaluating and introducing job descriptions for regional/collective and global compensation requirements
- Preparing matrices (with job descriptions) in German and English; conducting interviews and workshops with leaders and HR from other business units
- Extensive research; reviewing text content and ratings; ensuring compliance with guidelines and cross-comparisons
Jan 2011 - Present
13 years 7 monthsHR Business Partner / Interim HR Manager
ISAconnects
- Business consulting with a focus on HR
Jan 2009 - Present
16 years 7 monthsConsultant, Coach, Trainer
- Consulting/coaching for leaders and solo entrepreneurs
- Training in personal development, team building, job application
Karlsruhe, Germany
HR Specialist, Deputy Group Leader HR Development
Badische Versicherungen
- Advising, supporting and developing leaders and employees
Östringen, Germany
HR Specialist, Member of International Teams
Cytec Engineered Materials
- Building the department and coordinating with international teams
Remchingen, Germany
HR Clerk, Developed into HR Specialist
Kabelwerke Reinshagen
- Building the department – time, wages, payroll, training
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
HR Specialist, Member of International Teams
euroConex
- Developing and implementing international corporate strategies
Wiesbaden, Germany
HR Director, Member of Management and European HR Team
Dow Corning GmbH
- Designing and leading innovative HR management
- HR specialist for Germany and Belgium
Summary
- Highly motivated business partner, performance- and solution-oriented
- International experience in large corporations
- Diverse operational and strategic practice in SMEs
- Above-average people skills
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Spanish
Elementary
Certifications & licenses
AdA – Trainer Qualification according to AEVO
Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Stuttgart
Certified European Business Coach (DIN PAS1029)
European Academy of Business Coaching, Wiesbaden
HR Specialist
Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Pforzheim
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