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Maria Steinbacher
HR Manager
Experience
Jan 2023 - Present
3 years 1 monthAustria
HR Manager
Produktfreunde GmbH
- Currently deployed as Senior HR Business Partner for restructuring at a well-known company in the metal and electrical industry
- 6-month assignment as Senior HR Business Partner at a major energy producer (under collective agreement) in Leipzig
- 7-month assignment as HR consultant at a leading energy producer
- Concurrently ongoing: online marketing for various clients in the hospitality/hotel industry
Mar 2014 - Dec 2022
8 years 10 monthsTeamlead Employee Relations / HR Business Partner
Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG
- Disciplinary and professional leadership of HR Business Partners, HR specialists, and recruiters (7 people)
- Responsible for 350 employees across creative, service, and development areas: proactive support and consultation for managers and employees on HR and labor law matters (individual and collective)
- Coaching managers on recruitment, employee retention, and development
- Designing internal organizational development and change projects, including supporting managers during implementation
- Designing and implementing restructuring measures in collaboration with senior management and negotiating termination agreements with the works council and employee lawyers
- Representing the company in conciliation hearings and before labor courts
- Managing recruitment of specialists and executives, including aligning requirements with departments, conducting second interviews, advising managers on hiring, and negotiating contracts
- Advising on drafting and modifying employment contracts, executing individual personnel actions, and handling employment terminations
- Negotiating works agreements with the works council
- Core team member for developing and implementing annual HR processes (e.g., goal setting, workforce planning, salary reviews)
- Managing strategic HR projects
- Facilitating national and international workshops in German and English
- Signing authority
Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
2 yearsHR Manager
Gigaset Communications GmbH
- Executing and improving the entire personnel development process
- Developing a leadership model
- Executing and improving the entire incentive process for non-tariff employees and senior executives
- Handling hiring, terminations, and contract changes at the executive level in countries (including Spain, UK)
- Setting up and running HR reporting (headcounts, savings, provisions) with SAP HR
- Introducing and overseeing a global standardized payroll process
- Planning and executing restructuring measures (e.g., social selection, preparing negotiations with bargaining parties, redundancies)
- Creating and rolling out international policies
- Advising countries on HR-related issues
- Planning and executing various global HR projects
- Recruiting for strategically important positions
- Close collaboration with the works council and employers' association
- International assignments
Jun 2011 - Dec 2011
7 monthsHR Manager
NorCom Information Technology AG
- Executing, controlling, and optimizing recruiting, including pre-screening, conducting interviews, and developing new recruiting channels (e.g., Xing, Facebook)
- Managing external HR service providers
- Implementing personnel development measures
- Advising managers and employees on all HR-related questions
- Representing the company in labor court matters
- Preparing payroll
- All administrative tasks: e.g., contract drafting, communication with authorities and insurers, maternity leave
Sep 2006 - Apr 2011
4 years 8 monthsManagement Consultant
UNITY AG
- Project lead for quality in pre-series development: technical leadership of a project team (7 members); responsible for various quality functions and processes; facilitating relevant committees of middle and senior management
- Ramp-up management in an international project for production in China (partly on-site in Beijing): process/change management—introducing and implementing German processes into the existing Chinese organization; acting as interface between development, production, logistics, and sales on both Chinese and German sides; preparing and driving necessary management decisions; facilitating interdisciplinary meetings and workshops (mostly in English)
- Project management in a large IT project: including budget and schedule planning, monitoring and reporting; facilitating and organizing interdisciplinary coordination meetings; technical leadership of the on-site UNITY team (4 members)
Summary
HR Business Partner / Team Lead with 15 years of experience in generalist HR work – both operational and strategic: covering recruiting, onboarding, support to exit, restructuring, and diverse HR projects. Deep experience with the IG Metall tariff (Bavaria) and collaboration with the works council.
Also many years of experience in project/process management in management consulting.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2002 - Jun 2006
University of Paderborn
Bachelor of Arts, International Business Studies · International Business Studies · Paderborn, Germany
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