Managing Director

• Responsible for the HR Shared Service: personnel administration, payroll, time management, organizational management, travel expenses, company pension scheme and occupational health service for approx. 3,500 employees of the VARTA Group in Germany
• Responsible for the HR IT systems of the VARTA Group and the harmonization and optimization of the HR process and IT landscape as well as adaptation of the HR operating model with regard to HR services
• Close coordination with Finance & Controlling, Corporate IT, business stakeholders and works councils
• Managing 18 employees across 4 locations in two collective bargaining areas
• Reporting line to the CHRO of the VARTA Group

Projects:

• Alignment of the parallel SAP systems post-merger in preparation for S4/HANA migration
• Process optimization of HR processes and operating model
• Introduction of ESS/MSS time recording on a FIORI basis at one site for approx. 700 employees

• Project member of the core team for HR transformation – operating model and establishment of an HR Shared Service Center, global process standardization, Workday system integration and ServiceNow as enabler for the German HR Shared Service unit
• Global Test Lead for the international Workday system integration for approx. 33,000 employees worldwide
• Development, implementation and execution of the global test strategy for 36 global HR standard processes, a new employee master data model and IT interfaces
• Test Lead for the German ServiceNow system integration for approx. 14,000 employees in Germany
• Development, implementation and execution of the test strategy for 25 German HR standard processes
• Subproject execution: PPM documentation and creation of training materials: External Provider Order Process Governance
• Project controlling and allocation of internal and external project costs to Zeiss subsidiaries and central procurement of external vendors for Zeiss IT projects

• End-to-end analysis of all interfaces between systems and upstream agreements
• Use of system-generated configuration data to depict processes in BPMN (MS Visio)
• Conducting interviews and verifications to fully capture handover points between systems and upstream/downstream subprocesses