Stefan B.
Senior HR Manager for relocations of various production and sales companies
Experience
Sep 2021 - Sep 2024
3 years 1 monthTübingen, Germany
Senior HR Manager for relocations of various production and sales companies
Walter AG (SANDVIK Group)
- Metal processing industry.
- €800 M revenue with over 5,000 employees.
- Reporting directly to VP HR Global, local management and PU directors, with budget responsibility up to €12 M and span of control up to 20 direct reports.
- Strategic advice and operational execution of production and sales reorganization.
- Setting clear KPIs and metrics to measure efficiency gains and regular monitoring.
- Supporting and steering negotiations on operational changes while avoiding business transfers.
- Close coordination/negotiations with works council and unions, developing an HR roadmap and introducing new recruitment approaches and onboarding processes.
- Successfully negotiating and implementing agreements and social plans without layoffs, with/without conciliation board, within 3–6 months each, including a voluntary program.
- Optimizing recruitment and retention, permanently hiring 40 specialists within 6 months.
- Improving process throughput by 34%, cutting average onboarding time by 2 days, including extra feedback loops for all involved.
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
8 monthsLinz, Austria
Director HCM & Head of Transformation Task Force
ESIM Chemicals GmbH (SUN CAPITAL Group)
- Fine chemicals.
- €180 M revenue with approx. 550 employees.
- Reporting directly to management with €270 K budget and span of control up to 30 direct reports.
- Realigning HR and reorganizing a business unit as part of a carve-out, including setting up a Transformation Management Office based on the OBEYA method, during the COVID-19 crisis.
- Introducing a cloud-based HR IT solution and realigning the HCM strategy in close cooperation with various works councils.
- Centralizing HR processes as a shared service center, including payroll, personnel administration and onboarding.
- Transformation and HR IT modernization in under 3 months each.
- Successfully centralizing HR services in under 4 months, reducing administrative process time by 20%.
- Raising service-level compliance by 15% by introducing unified processes and tools in the shared service area.
- Increasing employee satisfaction by 18% through improved, centralized HR processes and shorter turnaround times.
- Reducing turnover and sickness rates by over 12%.
Sep 2019 - May 2020
9 monthsGummersbach, Germany
Program Director - Enterprise CRM/HCM Transition Multi-Platforms
Able Group
- HR services.
- €1.2 B revenue with approx. 12,000 employees across 5 subsidiaries.
- Reporting directly to CEO and CIO with €1.6 M budget and span of control up to 50 direct reports.
- Stabilizing and realigning a CRM/HCM transition program focusing on compliance and implementing multi-cloud platforms (Salesforce, Bullhorn, SAP) via brownfield approach in close coordination with the platform architect.
- Coordinating and harmonizing HR processes across sites to ensure efficiency and consistency in service delivery.
- Supporting the introduction of modern release management for cloud-based multi-platforms.
- Realigning product and requirements management in close coordination with stakeholders.
- Efficient transition in under 6 months at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, reducing administrative process time by 28%.
- Increasing service-level compliance by 23% through unified processes and tools across the service area.
- Boosting internal customer satisfaction by 29% with optimized HR processes and faster turnaround times.
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
10 monthsHeilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany
Senior HR Manager for reorganization
Magna International
- Automotive supplier – Tier 1.
- Approx. €45 B revenue with approx. 180,000 employees worldwide.
- Reporting directly to local management and corporate program leadership (CFO), no direct budget responsibility, span of control up to 10 direct reports.
- Leading the personnel reorganization of a production site with over 600 employees, especially implementing agreement and social plan measures.
- Developing and implementing flexible staff reductions in coordination with corporate and local management and the works council.
- Managing the transfer company and providing HR advice to leaders on agreements and social plans.
- Successfully implementing a socially responsible voluntary program, achieving significant savings.
- Building a new float pool within 12 weeks to improve production flexibility.
- No labor court cases due to proactive negotiations and transparent information management.
Jan 2012 - Present
13 years 8 monthsHövelhof, Germany
Founder, Managing Director, Interim Manager & Senior Consultant
lead & conduct! GmbH
- Won the Salesforce Partner Award in 2019 and maintained consistently high customer satisfaction (>9.2 NPS).
- Scaled the company with over 60 projects serving national and international market leaders in the metal and chemical industries.
Jul 2008 - Jun 2012
4 yearsBielefeld, Germany
Director HCM & Strategic Projects
Synaxon AG
- IT trading group.
- €3 B with over 4,000 partners in Germany and the UK.
- Reporting directly to CEO with €3 M budget and span of control up to 60 direct reports.
- Leading human capital management and developing the first social commerce platform for IT products in the DACH region.
Jan 1988 - Jun 2008
20 years 6 monthsGermany
General Staff Officer
Bundeswehr and international organizations
- Defense.
- Reporting directly to commanding officers.
- As chief of staff, leading the reorganization of an army headquarters at home and abroad within 3 years, and as deputy program leader, planning the reorganization of the land forces and their headquarters at home and abroad within 18 months.
Summary
Senior HR Manager for demanding realignments/critical transformation situations.
CHRO, VP HR/HCM, Director People & Culture for cross-functional HR programs/projects in international matrix organizations, e.g. for operational changes, M&A (carve-out & PMI), reorganizations, turnarounds and relocations.
Transformation manager & sparring partner for management and operations partners.
Adapting high-value HR models, strategies and implementation concepts: Quickly identifying and delivering on high expectations with business results accountability for effective solutions and agreed goals.
Operational HR management: Effective personnel support for blue-collar and white-collar employees in multinational production environments.
Stakeholder management: Working with operations partners, focusing on trust-building and compliance with labor law.
Digital HR tools and processes: Deep knowledge of modern HR systems/platforms (e.g. SAP SuccessFactors, Workday) to support data-driven HR processes.
Transformation & change management: Successfully leading and guiding transformations, especially in manufacturing companies.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Apr 2001 - Sep 2003
Leadership Academy of the German Armed Forces
Admiral/general staff training for senior and highest roles in the armed forces, NATO, UN and EU · Hamburg, Germany
Oct 1991 - Dec 1994
Helmut Schmidt University
Diploma · Psychology, organizational sciences and human resources · Hamburg, Germany · very good
Certifications & licenses
SAFe® Product Owner/Program Consultant (POPM/SPC)
SF
Cloud Administrator
SF
Sales/Service Cloud Consultant
SF
Turnaround & Restructuring Management
IfUS (SRH)
Business Process Manager – including SCRUM
Novacess/GPM
Six Sigma Black Belt
European SixSigma Club/TÜV Rheinland
Multi-Project Management (IPMA Level A/B)
GPM
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