Michael (Ralf) J.
HR Manager - Interim
Experience
Jan 2025 - Sep 2025
9 monthsSchwerte, Germany
HybridHR Manager
Schwerter Profile GmbH
- Covering vacancies and change management
- Implementation of various HR IT systems: digital personnel file, transformation of HR payroll
- Revision of HR processes
Jan 2023 - Jul 2024
1 year 7 monthsHead of Region Germany, HR Manager Projects
rkw SE Mannheim, Headquarter
- Covering the Head of Region Germany vacancy (2 months)
- HR responsibility for 6 production sites in Germany
- HR Manager Projects Germany (17 months)
- Nationwide restructuring
- Development and communication of strategy
- Negotiation of reconciliation of interests and social plan
- Implementation of main restructuring in Nordhorn
- Outsourcing of the German payroll
- Maintaining payroll with a fragile system (SAP HCM) and unstable team
- Negotiation and project management for the outsourcing
- Negotiation of the collective bargaining agreement and communication to staff
- Building a stable HR system in Germany together with the Head of HR Region Germany
Jan 2023 - Jul 2024
1 year 7 monthsKalefeld, Germany
Site HR Manager
rkw SE Mannheim, Echte/Kalefeld site
- Covering vacancies
- Introduction of a new plant manager
- Process setup at the site adapted to rkw's global HR structure (ISO-compliant)
- Implementation of an active health management system in the aging production facility
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
1 year 4 monthsNordhorn, Germany
Site HR Manager
rkw SE Mannheim, Nordhorn site
- Ensuring and building HR processes at the site
- Reviewing local works agreements and aligning them with central processes and guidelines
- Developing and implementing partial restructurings, short-time work, and changes to shift models
- Contributing to the development of a sustainable concept for the site
- Negotiations with the works council
- Coaching of plant management
- HR management (covering vacancies); resolving difficult personnel cases
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
1 year 2 monthsSchwerte, Germany
HR Project Manager
Schwerter Profile GmbH
- Carve-out of the rolling mill from the insolvent Hoesch Schwerter Profile GmbH
- Handling dismissal protection lawsuits and managing defense measures
- Establishing a sustainable HR structure and developing an HR team
- Supporting HSE activities
- Transforming the corporate culture from a group subsidiary to a mid-sized company
- HR management, labor law consulting, and implementation
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
9 monthsSchloß Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany
HR Consultant
Ferdinand Lusch GmbH
- Bringing together all company divisions at one site
- Leveraging synergies with affiliated companies
- HR leadership, advising during the corona period
- Handling all HR special cases including labor law issues
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
1 monthBelgium
Senior Consultant
Confidential Automobile Supplier
- Analyzing the situation and developing a concept for closing a German site with about 100 employees
- Documenting the current state
- Outlining different scenarios
- Creating action plans including cost estimates
- Developing communication plans with agendas
- Preparing and presenting the documentation
- Preparing and presenting the resolution proposal to the executive board
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
1 yearAltenbeken, Germany
Head of HR
Ferdinand Lusch GmbH
- HR management, company transfer under § 613a BGB
- Supporting the managing directors
- Establishing efficient and functional processes after insolvency and investor entry
- Handling all HR special cases including labor law issues
- Relocating to a new site, including negotiating a reconciliation of interests
- Planning and implementing measures for the corona pandemic
- Implementing short-time work
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
4 monthsBielefeld, Germany
Head of HR
Ferdinand Lusch GmbH & Co. KG in Insolvenz
- Developing and negotiating an insolvency reconciliation agreement
- Developing and negotiating an insolvency social plan
- Establishing a transfer company and moving a group of employees into it
- Creating a saleable company
- Compiling HR data for the sales prospectus
- Conducting employee information sessions and works meetings
- HR management
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
1 yearSchwarzheide, Germany
HR Manager
proseat Schwarzheide GmbH
- Operational HR management
- Implementing modern HR processes
- Drafting and finalizing works agreements
- Supporting the IATF certification
- Introducing personnel development programs
- Coaching managers and advising plant management
- Supporting the search for a new HR manager and handing over responsibilities
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 10 monthsBielefeld, Germany
HR Manager
Ferdinand Lusch GmbH & Co. KG
- HR management
- Supporting the managing directors
- Optimizing processes
- Developing and negotiating works council agreements
- Merging two production sites
- Implementing a restructuring
- Negotiating and implementing a consensus agreement and social plan, including arbitration board negotiations
- Handling all special HR cases, including labor law issues
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
6 monthsUnseburg, Germany
Plant HR Manager + Site Responsibility, Unseburg
rkw Agri GmbH & Co. KG
- Implementing the consensus agreement and social plan
- Managing the mass layoffs
- Closing and winding down the Unseburg site
- Relocating production equipment and agri products to another site
- Completing all HR processes and preparing for follow-up care
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
1 year 7 monthsUnseburg, Germany
Plant HR Manager, Unseburg Site
RKW Agri GmbH & Co. KG
- Integrating the acquired site into RKW processes
- Recording the structure and analyzing site potential
- Setting up HR processes and employee development
- Structuring HR administration and addressing contract deficiencies
- Establishing HR processes and terminating various hard-to-dismiss employment contracts
- Creating a personnel cost plan
Jan 2014 - Aug 2015
1 year 8 monthsHanover, Germany
Head of Human Resources
Höft & Wessel AG / METRIC mobility solutions AG
- Leading HR, social affairs and organization
- Continuing the restructuring and achieving further savings
- Systematically building the HR department, which had been neglected for decades
- Handing over to the successor (return from parental leave)
- Structuring HR administration and limiting contract risks
- Establishing HR processes and terminating various hard-to-dismiss employment contracts
- Developing a personnel cost plan with SAP HCM for the German company
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
4 monthsBraunschweig, Germany
Senior Recruiter and HR Manager
MDM Deutsche Münze Münzhandel mbH
- Building the recruiting structure
- Establishing the basics for employer branding
- Filling various positions at all levels
- Introducing modern recruiting in the company
- Improving the company's image as an employer
- Filled 15 positions
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
3 monthsBraunschweig, Germany
Organizational Consulting and Recruitment
Familie Borek
- Filling leadership positions (real estate company, family office)
- Filling positions and onboarding new hires, organizational consulting
Jan 2012 - Sep 2012
9 monthsMannheim, Germany
HR Manager/Senior Recruiter
Roche Diagnostic GmbH
- Supporting the project to relocate insulin pump development from Burgdorf, Switzerland to Mannheim
- Contributing to the creation of the organizational structure at the new site
- Filling open positions since many employees did not transfer
- Successfully filling vacancies created by the relocation and managing training and onboarding
- Effectively leveraging synergies from the site relocation
Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
4 monthsMannheim, Germany
Senior Recruiter
Roche Diagnostic GmbH
- Recruiting specialists and managers in biotechnology, medical technology, and logistics
- Recruiting pharma workers and logistics staff
- Successfully filling open positions as part of the global SAP project
Summary
HR Manager for manufacturing SMEs
With solid experience in restructuring, organizational setup, and change, I create processes and functional HR structures in challenging situations.
In addition to classic HR work, my main focus areas are labor law, IT, and employee leadership.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 1983 - May 1989
Technical University of Braunschweig and University of Hannover
Diploma in Economics, majoring in labor law, HR & labor, marketing · Economics · Germany · good
Certifications & licenses
Vocational trainer certification
Qualification for personality assessment with OPQ32
SHL
Qualification in potential analysis with PEP
IMDE
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