Stephanie Faussner

Director People & Progress / Transformation Manager

Munich, Germany

Experience

Jul 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 6 months
Germany

Director People & Progress / Transformation Manager

Plusnet GmbH (subsidiary of EnBW AG)

  • Strategic shift with implications for infrastructure and organization
  • Planned expansion of staff by 100+ (status behind schedule)
  • Planning and management of the transformation, including leading works council negotiations
  • Taking responsibility for all HR activities as a foundation for success
  • Managing tasks in a dual role at the start with 3 employees
  • Developing the HR strategy along with guidelines
  • Developing an operational, prioritized action plan
  • Building and qualifying the People team
  • Developing and implementing leadership development as well as re- and upskilling of employees
  • Optimizing and digitizing the HR process landscape
  • Implementing a travel expense and expense management tool
  • Successfully building up the employee base including onboarding (100+ employees)
  • Establishing a qualified and motivated People team
  • Introducing a new HR tool (Personio)
  • Implementing a travel expense and expense management tool (Lanes & Planes)
  • Ensuring the foundation for the successful transformation of the company
  • Selecting and onboarding the Director People & Progress in a permanent position
  • Handover of a highly motivated, successful team
  • Through the joint effort of the entire team, the strategic change was successfully implemented. The foundation for further growth and future development of the company has been laid.
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
11 months
Germany

HR Project Manager (Transformation)

Roche Germany GmbH (pharmaceuticals)

  • Project management of a transformation affecting 1,200 employees
  • Filling positions internally/externally (levels V-1 to V-4)
  • Advising employees in the transition to early retirement (58+)
  • Business mediation
  • Creating the project plan and controlling the measures
  • Taking on operational activities
  • Designing and conducting applicant training (internal)
  • Active sourcing (external)
  • Designing target group-specific recruiting campaigns
  • Contact person for the works council in all phases of the transformation
  • Successful and swift filling of 120+ positions (internal/external)
  • Resolving various conflicts (manager/employee, employee/employee)
  • Conducting separation interviews and thus resolving problem cases
  • My strong methodological skills were very helpful in providing sustainable solutions to long-standing 'problem cases'. My hands-on mentality and high solution orientation were key to the quick and successful implementation of the overall project with all its critical phases.
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
6 months
Germany

HR Business Partner / HR Specialist (sick leave cover)

Medela Medical Technology GmbH & Co Trading KG (medical technology)

  • Advising the executive management and the management level
  • Mix of strategic and operational tasks
  • Filling positions (levels V-1 to V-3)
  • HR administration (SAP, Workday)
  • Assisting in optimizing various HR processes
  • Active sourcing
  • Daily business
  • Successful and swift filling of, among others, an executive management position in finance
  • Fast and efficient execution of all tasks
  • Good advice to management during decision-making processes
  • My diverse experience helped me integrate immediately into both the company culture and processes. With tact, I succeeded in contributing to the optimization of HR instruments.
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
5 months
Germany

HR Project Manager (M&A)

Discovery Communications Germany GmbH & Co. KG

  • Supporting restructuring measures in the context of a merger
  • Contact person for service providers and colleagues involved in the project
  • Acting head of HR during a critical project phase due to illness
  • Necessity to make quick decisions under a tight timeline
  • Managing a high workload
  • Immediate productivity
  • Supporting works council negotiations
  • Preparing mass layoff notifications
  • Establishing a transfer company
  • Drafting and delivering terminations, separation offers and employment contracts with the transfer company
  • Accompanying employee communication
  • Daily HR support
  • Maintaining data in Personio
  • Ensuring payroll payments (preparing payroll)
  • Successful implementation of all measures within the planned schedule
  • Effective and efficient support of executive management
  • Very good cooperation with the works council
  • Trusted contact for employees
  • Quick decision-making paired with implementation excellence formed the basis for the timely execution of the project. My ability to quickly familiarize myself with new environments and industries ensured that I was operational ASAP. Thus, I was able to support management from day one and contribute my previous experience to the advisory process.
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
3 months
Germany

HR Project Manager (voluntary program)

Océ Printing Systems GmbH & Co. KG (printing)

  • Taking over the execution of a redundancy program with double voluntary participation
  • Handling strategic tasks
  • Supporting the team in daily operations
  • Creating various concepts
  • Conducting employee interviews as part of the voluntary program
  • Collaborating with the works council
  • Drafting contracts
  • System maintenance (SAP, SuccessFactors)
  • Successful implementation of the voluntary program
  • Efficient support of the team
  • Solution-oriented advice to managers
  • My quick understanding of the industry and the company’s specific needs contributed to a high value-add through the delivered concepts. The professional execution of the voluntary program and competent support of the team were highly appreciated.
May 2018 - Oct 2020
2 years 6 months
Germany

HR Project Manager (transformation, downsizing, expansion)

Roche Diagnostics GmbH

  • Project management of two transformations (1,800 and 400 affected employees)
  • Supporting the HR transformation (the entire team was undergoing change)
  • Project leadership and execution of a redundancy program with double voluntary participation
  • Resolving 'difficult' employee cases
  • Supporting a recruitment program
  • Switching between different areas and their project requirements
  • Creating the project plan and controlling the measures
  • Designing and conducting applicant training (internal)
  • Active sourcing (external)
  • Designing target group-specific recruiting campaigns
  • Contact person for the works council within the various projects
  • Successful and swift filling of 120+ positions (internal/external)
  • Resolving various conflicts (manager/employee, employee/employee)
  • Conducting separation interviews
  • My strong methodological skills were very helpful in providing sustainable solutions to long-standing 'problem cases'. My hands-on mentality and high solution orientation were key to the quick and successful implementation of the overall project with all its critical phases.
Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
2 years 2 months
Germany

Business Partner / Project Manager

Telefonica Deutschland GmbH & Co.KG (telco / retail)

  • Developing a performance-based compensation system in the call center area
  • Handling an arbitration process with the works council
  • Restoring a trustful collaboration with the works council
  • Sub-project leadership for the introduction of SuccessFactors in seven group companies
  • Supporting the implementation of a new compensation system
  • Assisting with the second phase of a merger
  • HR Business Partner for Finance and Marketing
  • Developing and negotiating the performance-based compensation system involving the works council
  • Advising managers during the introduction of the WTW compensation system
  • Initiating a round table in an arbitration process followed by a company works agreement
  • Negotiating a framework agreement plus annexes for about 100 IT systems (system harmonization in the merger)
  • Project planning, management and execution for the introduction of Employee Central and Time & Attendance for seven group companies
  • Administrative support during the merger
  • Advising CFO and CMO as well as second-level management
  • Efficient support of the team
  • Restoring a trustful collaboration with the works council at eye level
  • Solution-oriented advice to managers
  • Due to my flexibility, expertise and communication skills, I was quickly given additional tasks and the mandate was extended twice.
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
11 months
Munich, Germany

Head of Human Resources (international)

PAY.ON AG

  • Taking on the leadership role while the predecessor was still part of the team
  • Developing the HR strategy along with guidelines
  • Qualifying team members
  • Optimizing HR processes
  • Supporting an M&A process (due diligence)
  • Revising the compensation model
  • Revising employment contracts
  • Revising the performance model
  • Advising executive management and second-level management
  • Contact person for labor law questions
  • Operational support of the team
  • Recruiting a new head of HR
  • Successful sale of the company
  • Supporting the integration
  • Handover of the qualified team and optimized processes to the permanent Director
  • I quickly familiarized myself with the international IT environment and the high security requirements of the banking sector. The variety of topics (M&A, DD, strategic tasks, leadership, operational tasks) drove me to top performance.
Mar 2013 - Dec 2015
2 years 10 months
Germany

Headhunter, Recruiter, Interim HR Manager of a subsidiary

Atlas Copco Tools Central Europe GmbH

  • Taking over recruiting as an external service provider for various subsidiaries
  • Taking on the responsible HR role of a subsidiary (sick leave cover)
  • Filling various positions as headhunter
  • Developing the recruiting strategy and operationalizing it
  • Conducting various recruiting campaigns
  • Short-term takeover of all operational HR tasks
  • Successful filling of open positions
  • Smooth support of both managers and employees during the sick leave cover
  • Due to my deep understanding of the needs of the supported subsidiaries, I was entrusted with HR responsibilities during the sick leave cover. I leveraged my flexibility and excellent technical and methodological expertise to ensure seamless operations together with headquarters.
Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
5 months
Munich, Germany

HR Consultant

Capgemini Deutschland GmbH

  • Project lead for a reorganization project (200 employees)
  • Creating the project plan with milestones
  • Managing internal communication
  • Developing the reporting structure
  • Assembling the project team
  • Defining work packages
  • Designing, organizing and conducting the kick-off meeting
  • Conducting workshops
  • Successful project completion
  • Although surrounded by consultants, I was able to leverage my methodological and technical expertise to implement the reorganization project with high quality.
Feb 2011 - Mar 2012
1 year 2 months
Germany

Recruiter

Telefonica Deutschland GmbH & Co.KG

  • Quickly filling open positions across departments
  • Leading an insourcing project (filling 60 positions in three months)
  • Creating job postings
  • Developing campaigns and accompanying acquisition measures
  • Leading and conducting individual assessment centers (managers)
  • Conducting interviews
  • Advising managers on selection
  • Conducting contract negotiations
  • Contact person for the works council
  • Successful and rapid filling of positions
  • Due to my excellent performance, the business unit engaged me after the mandate for an insourcing project with HR. Thanks to my fast and reliable work, I managed to fill all positions up to contract conclusion.
Jul 2010 - Present
15 years 1 month
Munich, Germany

Owner

HRM Faussner

  • Interim management (HR Director, HR Business Partner, HR Project Manager)
  • Developing and operationalizing HR strategies
  • Developing and implementing HR instruments
  • Optimizing HR processes
  • Supporting M&A and due diligence processes
  • Supporting reorganizations and business transfers
  • Project and change management
  • Direct search / active sourcing
  • Designing and conducting individual assessments (senior management level)
  • Coaching: middle and top management
  • Contact person for employee representation / negotiation leadership
  • Certified business mediator
  • Trainer
  • Career coach
Dec 2007 - Jun 2010
2 years 7 months

Director Human Resources

PACT Communication Group

  • Disciplinary leadership responsibility
  • Business plan responsibility
  • Developing and implementing the HR strategy
  • Supporting reorganizations (matrix structure, business transfers)
  • Advising management on all HR topics
  • Employer branding / employer brand building
  • Recruiting
  • Talent development including training design and delivery
  • Coaching
  • Compensation & benefits
  • Contract management, labor law
  • Managing and quality-assuring all HR processes
Feb 2002 - Nov 2007
5 years 10 months

Team Leader Human Resources

Schmidt und Kaiser Kommunikationsberatung GmbH/auratis AG (5 network agencies total)/Omnicom

  • Disciplinary leadership responsibility
  • Business plan responsibility
  • Supporting reorganizations (due diligence / integration)
  • Responsibility for HRM
  • Employer marketing
  • Recruitment
  • Workforce planning / controlling
  • Personnel development including training design and delivery
  • Compensation & benefits
  • Operational employee support
  • Reporting / Sarbanes-Oxley
  • Quality management
  • ISO 9001 certification
Jan 1996 - Jan 2002
6 years 1 month
Frankfurt, Germany

Managing Director / Member of the Executive Board

Mainhattan Media Musik & Kommunikations GmbH / Mainhattan Marketing & Vertriebs GmbH / Mainhattan Events & Promotion GmbH

Responsibility and management of finance and HR

Mar 1993 - Nov 1995
2 years 9 months

Senior Executive

Physiowipp Medical Technology

Responsible for finance & marketing

Apr 1989 - Feb 1993
3 years 11 months
Germany

Marketing Assistant

Sony Deutschland GmbH

Development and implementation of the CBS Magalog

Jan 1987 - Mar 1989
1 year 3 months

Managing Partner

CS-Verlags GmbH

Development and publication of a regional lifestyle magazine

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Mar 1986 - Feb 1988

University of Mannheim

Business Administration · Mannheim, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Certified Business Moderator

Certified Trainer

Certified Business Mediator IHK

IHK

Business Coach Training