Stephan Boehnke
Consultant
Experience
Consultant
Allgäuer Überlandwerke
- Analysis of HR IT infrastructure.
- Identifying optimization potential.
Project Lead for IT Service Provider
University Hospital Frankfurt/Main
- Leading IT service provider project in HR process digitization.
Project Management
AutoVision
- Managing HR process digitization project.
Consultant
Envu
- Advising HR organization in a reorganization project.
Trainer / Consultant
myToys
- Designing and delivering leadership training on change topics.
Consultant
Dumont
- Tendering and selecting HR IT solutions.
Consultant
BEOS GmbH
- Developing processes to ensure compliance requirements.
Consultant
LEAG
- Tendering and selecting a payroll service provider.
- Modernizing HR IT (tender, selection, implementation).
Consultant
VBS GmbH
- Developing an HR metrics system.
Consultant
Stromnetz Berlin GmbH
- Drafting works agreements.
- Carve-out project, subproject HR IT systems.
HR Consultant and Trainer
Häcker Küchen GmbH
HR consulting and training:
- Implementing an HR metrics system.
- Training HR controllers and HR specialists.
HR Consultant and Trainer
Dalmec GmbH
HR consulting and training:
- Assessing the current situation.
- Team-building measures for leadership.
- Developing a future-proof business strategy.
- Optimizing and digitizing HR processes.
- Leadership coaching.
HR Consultant and Trainer
Coman Software GmbH
HR consulting and training:
- Reviewing and updating employment contract documents.
- Leadership training on goal setting.
- Developing an organizational handbook.
Project Lead
Raytheon Professional Services GmbH
HR support for a tender process in 12 European countries:
- Checking if business transfers apply.
- Organizing recruitment if needed.
- Implementing staff reductions if needed.
- Coordinating with local labor law experts.
- Advising management and Head of HR.
Project Staff (under HRpepper GmbH & Co. KGaA)
BVG
Optimizing HR processes and developing a new HR operating model:
- Documenting current processes.
- Documenting current HR IT support.
- Reviewing potential HR IT support.
- Developing optimized processes with full IT support.
Project Lead
Stada Arzneimittel AG
Reorganization project in Germany:
- Reviewing organizational framework.
- Negotiating interest reconciliation and social plan with works council.
- Training leaders and HR business partners on separation interviews.
- Establishing administrative process for required staff reductions.
- Advising management, Head of HR Germany, and Global Head of HR.
Independent Consultant and Coach
HR Consulting & Training Stephan Boehnke
Human Resources.
Project Staff (under HRpepper GmbH & Co. KGaA)
Robert Bosch GmbH
- Management appraisal for leaders.
- Evaluating results.
- Recommendations to management.
- Feedback to participants.
Director of HR and Services
Gazprom Germania GmbH
Leading HR operations, facility management, and language services.
- Full responsibility for HR work including social partner relations.
- Managing language services and technical services (fleet and facilities).
- Coordinating with parent company in Russia and subsidiaries in the UK, Turkey, Switzerland, and Germany.
- Special project: reorganization.
- Introduced long-term phased retirement agreements without collective agreements.
- Launched a time value account model.
Head of HR
Vattenfall Europe Business Services GmbH
Leading HR services for the entire German Vattenfall Group.
- Full responsibility for HR services with about 21,000 employees and 35,000 pensioners at three sites, 300 service staff, and a €40M budget.
- Building an HR service organization.
- Creating an HR service catalog with pricing.
- Standardizing and automating HR services.
- Reducing service costs.
- Special projects: building international HR services; site consolidation; corporate pension cooperation.
- Achieved 30% cost reduction in three years while improving service quality.
- Established an international HR direct first-level support.
- Consolidated sites and reduced staff by 30% without layoffs.
Head of HR Policies and Controlling
Vattenfall Europe Business Services GmbH
Leading HR policies and controlling services.
- Full responsibility at three sites with 35 staff and a €5M budget.
- Supporting over 40 entities with labor law, workforce planning, and reporting.
- Developing standardized HR reports.
- Introducing a unified HR metrics system for the German group.
Head of Labor Law / Policies
Vattenfall Europe Business Services GmbH
Leading the labor law and policies division.
- Responsible for 15 staff and a €2M budget.
- Deputy head of HR.
- Advising on labor law, workforce planning, and reporting.
- Overseeing HR IT systems.
- Implemented SAP-HR for the German group with extensive self-service.
- Negotiated a group collective agreement for major German entities.
Head of HR IT Systems
Vattenfall Europe Business Services GmbH
Leading the specialist department.
HR Officer
Vattenfall Europe Business Services GmbH
Operations Engineer / Assistant
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Military Service
Mechanic, Fitter, Technician
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Summary
After moving into HR management, I gained comprehensive knowledge in international management through a part-time degree. At the German Vattenfall Group and GAZPROM Germania, I gathered extensive leadership experience at various levels up to HR director level (one level below board). Since spring 2018, I have been offering my experience to clients as an independent consultant, interim manager, and coach.
After more than 10 years in a technical role, I switched to HR management. Initially, I was responsible for HR IT, but soon took on broader leadership duties. My largest line role was building and leading the HR Shared Service Center for the German Vattenfall Group, with over 300 employees and a budget of more than €40 million. The goal was to merge four separate HR departments into a high-performing service organization serving 21,000 employees and 35,000 pensioners with standardized, high-quality services. We achieved this in three years while reducing costs by over 30%.
As a consultant and interim manager, I focus on reorganization projects, process optimization, and HR digitization. A key focus is identifying the impact of changes on the organization and managing related side effects. Change projects often fail not for technical reasons but on an emotional level. I also pay special attention to co-determination issues. In addition to consulting and interim management, I represent YOUTH GLOBE as a licensee in Berlin and Brandenburg. The company offers programs in personal development and leadership skills, with a focus on innovation and organizational leadership.
Languages
Education
School of Economy Berlin and Anglia Ruskin University
Master of Business Administration, International Management · International Management · Berlin, Germany
University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Economics Berlin
Diplomate Engineer in Automation Technology · Berlin, Germany
Technical School for Mining and Energy Senftenberg
Engineer in Automation Technology · Senftenberg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
SCRUM Master
CSM
SCRUM Master
CSM
NLP Practitioner
DVNLP
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