Managing Director

• Responsible for the HR shared service: personnel administration, payroll, time management, organizational management, travel expenses, occupational pension scheme and occupational health service for about 3,500 employees of the VARTA Group in Germany
• Responsible for the HR IT systems of the VARTA Group and for unifying and optimizing the HR process and IT landscape as well as adjusting the HR operating model regarding HR services
• Close coordination with finance & controlling, corporate IT, business stakeholders and works councils
• Leading 18 employees at 4 sites in two collective bargaining areas
• Reporting line to the CHRO of the VARTA Group

Projects:

• Aligning the parallel SAP systems after the merger to prepare for the S4/HANA conversion
• Optimizing HR processes and the operating model
• Introducing ESS/MSS time recording on a FIORI basis at one site for about 700 employees

• Member of the core team for HR transformation – operating model and building the 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 about 33,000 employees worldwide
• Developing, implementing and executing the global test strategy for 36 global HR standard processes as well as a new employee master data model and IT interfaces
• Test lead for the German ServiceNow system integration for about 14,000 employees in Germany
• Developing, implementing and executing the test strategy for 25 German HR standard processes
• Subproject: documenting PPM and creating training materials: External Provider Order Process Governance
• Project controlling and charging internal and external project costs to Zeiss subsidiaries and central procurement of external companies for Zeiss IT projects

• End-to-end review of all interfaces between systems and upstream agreements
• Using system-generated configuration data to map processes as BPMN (MS Visio)
• Conducting interviews and verifications to fully capture handover points between systems and upstream and downstream subprocesses