Paul Stricker
Interim Head of HR
Experience
Nov 2023 - Present
1 year 9 months Wuppertal, Germany
Interim Head of HR
Agaplesion Bethesda Krankenhaus Wuppertal
- Leading a professional and motivated HR team
- Improving HR function processes
- Further developing the HR function
Jul 2023 - Present
2 years 1 month Berlin, Germany
Interim Head of HR
Agaplesion Bethanien Diakonie gGmbH
- Leading a professional and motivated HR team
- Improving HR function processes
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
5 months Karlsruhe, Germany
Technical Project Stream Lead HR Transformation (“EnABLE:HR”)
EnBW AG
- Leading a project stream for HR transformation and implementing an HR IT platform (Workday)
- Acting as the interface between IT, HR, and the external partner for Workday rollout
- Managing the selection process of the HR IT platform
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
9 months Graz, Austria
Interim Global HR Director
Beyond Now GmbH
- Ensuring ongoing HR services in Austria, the UK, Ireland, and the USA
- Developing global HR processes and tools
- Implementing an SAP system (HR sub-project)
- Supporting the company’s global growth
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
4 months Vienna, Austria
Interim HR Senior Process Expert
Mondi Group AG
- Improving HR processes and coordinating HR generalists
- Enhancing the interface between SuccessFactors and other HR systems
- Acting as the link between IT and HR
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
6 months Vienna, Austria
Interim HR Business Partner
TTTech Auto AG
- Ensuring high-quality HR services for an employee group
- Supporting managers on HR topics
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
3 months Vienna, Austria
Interim HR Operations Manager EMEA
Tricentis GmbH
- Supporting and coaching the local HR team in Vienna
- Improving and developing HR processes and structures
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
1 year Göttingen, Germany
Interim HR Business Partner
Sartorius AG
- Providing HR services for “LPS Sales and Services” in Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria
- Managing the HR integration of employees from acquired Molecular Devices, LLC into Sartorius Lab Instruments GmbH & Co. KG in Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland
- Maintaining data in Workday as HR tool
- Supporting the rollout of Workday modules through change management and training
- Overseeing international recruiting processes in collaboration with recruiting specialists
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
2 months Hamburg, Germany
Project Support Outsourcing HR
Vattenfall Europe Business Services GmbH
- Supporting an HR outsourcing project
- Migrating core HR processes to SuccessFactors Employee Central
- Building and developing a retained organization to manage future collaboration with the external partner
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
7 months Göttingen, Germany
Interim HR Business Partner
Sartorius AG
- Providing HR services for “LPS Sales and Services” in Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
10 months Vráble, Slovakia
Interim HR Manager Powertrain and Chassis
Kongsberg Automotive
- Responsible for HR at the Vráble, Slovakia plant (about 1,200 FTE)
- Recruiting and stabilizing staff, building professional recruiting structures and processes
- Developing a professional employer image
- Improving and developing local HR processes, linking to a regional shared services center
May 2018 - Present
7 years 3 months Hofheim, Germany
Liquidator
CO4 Consulting and Management GmbH
- Responsible for winding up the company’s operations and settling all claims
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
8 months Nuremberg, Germany
Functional Analyst
Staedtler Mars GmbH & Co. KG
- Supporting a project to implement a new HR platform
- Functionally evaluating products
- Helping HR define their IT and product requirements
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
1 year 1 month Hamburg, Germany
Interim HR Advisor
Van Oord OWP Germany GmbH
- Managing the integration of VO OWP Germany into the Van Oord Group
- Adapting and rolling out group programs and initiatives locally
- Responsible for daily HR services in Hamburg
- Change management
- Improving communication between Rotterdam and Hamburg
- Supporting international managers with leadership tasks in Hamburg
- Developing the Germany assignment process with group expat management
- Handling local assignments from Hamburg
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
2 months Berlin, Germany
Interim HR Manager Support & Development
Berlin Hyp AG
- Leading and coordinating teams
- HR business partner
- Talent development
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
5 months Vienna, Austria
Interim HR Manager Austria & Germany
MOL Austria GmbH
- Responsible for operational HR processes
- Coordinating rollout of group tools, e.g. running workshops after an employee survey
- Implementing a group-wide SAP HR system
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
3 months Krems an der Donau, Austria
Interim Senior HR Manager
Walter Brantner GmbH
- Developing and launching strategic HR tools and processes, e.g. e-recruiting solution, performance management, partnerships with schools and universities
May 2014 - Dec 2015
8 months Vienna, Austria
Project Manager
Ecolab GmbH
- Coordinating HR transformation and outsourcing in CEE
- Leading SAP HR implementation (PA, PT, PY and OM) in CZ, SK, RO, GR, BG, LV, RS, HR, UA, NL, MT
- Supporting countries in the project
- Leading change management
Nov 2011 - Jan 2014
2 years 3 months Vienna, Austria
Senior Talent Manager & Organisational Development (TMOD), Cluster CEE
Novartis Pharma GmbH
- Coordinating Novartis’s global talent management process in the CEE cluster (Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, small SE Europe countries, Poland, Baltic States, Ukraine and CIS (excluding Russia), Mongolia)
- Acting as the competence center for talent management and supporting countries
- Building central recruiting structures for specialists in the region
- Managing global topics like reorganization, cultural change, employee surveys
- Developing training programs like the CEE Talent Management Program and the Product Management Academy for Austria
- Leading local cultural change management after a global restructuring
- HR business partner for business units in Austria: providing high-quality HR services and recruiting pharma specialists
Jun 2008 - Oct 2011
3 years 5 months Bratislava, Slovakia
HR Business Partner
Unicredit Group
- HR BP for IT division units in Austria, Czech Republic, and Slovakia
- Providing high-quality HR services to employees and managers
- Recruiting IT specialists
- Local contact for assignments
- Member of the project team integrating Slovakia IT into the global IT structure
- Standardizing internal documents and contracts
- Managing the carve-out of IT in Slovakia
- Post-merger integration of IT in Czech Republic and Slovakia
Dec 2001 - Aug 2007
5 years 9 months Prague, Czech Republic
Assistant to the Representative
RWE AG
- The corporate representation monitors the Czech energy market and supports activities with local knowledge and contacts
- Supporting the representative
- Market monitoring
- Preparing reports and presentations
Dec 2001 - Aug 2007
5 years 9 months Brno, Czech Republic
HR Manager and Project Manager for a Restructuring Project
RWE Energy Czech Republic s.r.o.
- HR process harmonization and restructuring in acquired gas suppliers, communicating with 7 majority-owned companies (approx. 5,500 FTE) and 2 minority-owned firms
- Leading HR in major restructuring projects (unbundling and new group structure, new org structure and processes, central SAP solution to map new business processes)
- Leading an HR project team to build a shared services center for IT, procurement, and payroll
- Developing local HR processes for local staff and expatriates (approx. 50 employees)
- Implementing and enhancing the group assignment process with corporate expat management
- Rolling out and standardizing HR standards and systems in RWE’s Czech group, mainly for management development
Dec 2001 - Aug 2007
5 years 9 months Brno, Czech Republic
HR Manager / CEE HR Coordinator
RWE Systems CZ s.r.o / RWE Systems AG
- Developing and building HR group structures for RWE Systems in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland
- Designing an international HR development concept
- Analyzing existing HR (development) tools and planning rollout in the region
- Slovakia: supporting introduction and enhancement of various HR tools (retention, development, benefits); developing an HR development concept
- Poland: HR due diligence in a group-wide restructuring
- Czech Republic: acting as interface between management, employees, and internal HR service provider; advising management on strategic HR topics
- Hungary: analyzing and developing options to ensure HR services for RWE Systems AG
Aug 2000 - Nov 2001
1 year 4 months Vienna, Austria
Controller
UTA Telekom AG
- Implementing investment controlling
- Introducing project controlling
- Leading the project office (PMO) for a major restructuring project
Aug 2000 - Nov 2001
1 year 4 months Vienna, Austria
Executive Assistant
UTA Telekom AG
- Managing portfolio management, including sales controlling and coordinating sales reporting for business units
- Preparing presentations, reports, and management concepts for the CEO; analyzing data
- Developing a strategy and business model for mobile services
- Responsible for process management
- Supporting the CEO in integrating acquired Netway Communications AG into the UTA Group and managing collaboration with Raiffeisen Bank Group
Summary
What drives me as an interim manager is my enthusiasm for working with people to further develop HR processes in an international environment, especially in the CEE region. My customer and project focus is mainly on international mid-sized companies and fast-growing (international) startups. My contribution here is to support the development of professional and efficient digital HR structures in complex and (time)critical situations. Since I enjoy working professionally and privately with people from different cultures, I’ve also built a good network in CEE and DACH.
Languages
German
Native
Czech
Advanced
English
Advanced
Hungarian
Advanced
Slovak
Advanced
Education
Sep 1996 - Jun 2000
University of Applied Sciences - International Business Relations
International Business Relations · Eisenstadt, Austria
Certifications & licenses
Certified Agile Leader
Steinbeis Augsburg Business School
Project Management Course
WIFI of the Austrian Economic Chamber
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