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 (Tochter der EnBW AG)

  • Strategy shift with implications for infrastructure and organization
  • Planned headcount growth of 100+ (status behind plan)
  • Planning and managing the transformation, including leading works council negotiations
  • Taking responsibility for all HR activities as a foundation for success
  • Handling tasks in a dual role at start with 3 team members
  • Developing HR strategy and guidelines
  • Creating an operational, prioritized action plan
  • Building and training the People team
  • Developing and implementing leadership development as well as re- and upskilling employees
  • Optimizing and digitizing the HR process landscape
  • Implementing a travel and expense management tool
  • Successfully growing the workforce including onboarding (100+ employees)
  • Building a qualified and motivated People team
  • Introducing a new HR tool (Personio)
  • Implementing a travel and expense management tool (Lanes & Planes)
  • Ensuring the basis for the company’s successful transformation
  • Selecting and onboarding the permanent Director People & Progress
  • Handover of a highly motivated, successful team
  • Through the joint effort of the entire team, the strategy change was successfully implemented and laid the foundation for further growth and future development of the company.
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
11 months
Germany

HR Project Manager (Transformation)

Roche Deutschland GmbH (Pharmazie)

  • Project management of a transformation affecting 1,200 employees
  • Filling positions internally/externally (levels V-1 to V-4)
  • Advising employees on transition to early retirement (58+)
  • Business mediation
  • Creating the project plan and managing measures
  • Taking on operational tasks
  • Designing and running internal applicant training
  • Active sourcing (external)
  • Designing target-group-specific recruiting campaigns
  • Contact for the works council at all phases of the transformation
  • Successfully and quickly filling 120+ positions (internal/external)
  • Resolving various conflicts (manager/employee, employee/employee)
  • Conducting exit interviews and resolving problematic cases
  • My strong methodological skills were very helpful in finding sustainable solutions for long-term "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 high points.
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
6 months
Germany

HR Business Partner / HR Specialist (Krankheitsvertretung)

Medela Medizintechnik GmbH & Co Handels KG (Medizintechnik)

  • Advising management and executives
  • Mix of strategic and operational tasks
  • Filling positions (levels V-1 to V-3)
  • HR administration (SAP, Workday)
  • Supporting optimization of various HR processes
  • Active sourcing
  • Daily business
  • Successfully and quickly filling, among others, a finance executive role
  • Fast and efficient execution of all tasks
  • Good advisory support for management in decision processes
  • My diverse experience helped me integrate immediately into the company culture and processes. With sensitivity, I contributed to optimizing HR instruments.
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
5 months
Germany

HR Project Manager (M&A)

Discovery Communications Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

  • Supporting restructuring measures as part of a merger
  • Contact for service providers and colleagues involved in the project
  • Acting HR lead during sensitive project peak phases due to illness
  • Need to make quick decisions due to tight timeline
  • Managing high workload
  • Immediate productivity
  • Supporting works council negotiations
  • Preparing mass layoff notices
  • Setting up a transition company
  • Drafting and delivering terminations, termination offers, and contracts with the transition company
  • Accompanying employee communications
  • Daily HR support
  • Maintaining data in Personio
  • Ensuring payroll (preparing payroll)
  • Successfully implementing all measures on schedule
  • Effective and efficient support of management
  • Very good cooperation with the works council
  • Trusted contact for employees
  • Quick decision-making combined with execution excellence formed the basis for timely project implementation. My ability to adapt quickly to new environments and industries meant I was operational ASAP, freeing management from day one and leveraging my experience in advice.
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
3 months
Germany

HR Project Manager (Freiwilligenprogramm)

Océ Printing Systems GmbH & Co. KG (Printing)

  • Running a reduction program with voluntary participation
  • Taking on strategic tasks
  • Supporting the team in daily operations
  • Creating various concepts
  • Conducting employee meetings for the voluntary program
  • Collaborating with the works council
  • Drafting contracts
  • System maintenance (SAP, SuccessFactors)
  • Successful implementation of the voluntary program
  • Efficient team support
  • Solution-oriented advice to managers
  • My quick understanding of the industry and the company’s specific needs made my contributions through delivered concepts highly valuable. The professional implementation of the voluntary program and competent team support were highly appreciated.
May 2018 - Oct 2020
2 years 6 months
Germany

HR Project Manager (Transformation, Aufbau, Abbau)

Roche Diagnostics GmbH

  • Project management of two transformations (1,800 and 400 affected employees)
  • Supporting the HR transformation with the entire team in flux
  • Leading and executing a reduction program with voluntary participation
  • Resolving "difficult" employee cases
  • Supporting a growth program
  • Switching between different areas and their project needs
  • Creating the project plan and managing measures
  • Designing and running internal applicant training
  • Active sourcing (external)
  • Designing target-group-specific recruiting campaigns
  • Contact for the works council across various projects
  • Successfully and promptly filling 120+ positions (internal/external)
  • Resolving various conflicts (manager/employee, employee/employee)
  • Conducting exit interviews
  • My strong methodological skills were very helpful in finding sustainable solutions for long-term "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 peak 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
  • Leading an arbitration process with the works council
  • Restoring a trustful cooperation with the works council
  • Sub-project management for implementing SuccessFactors in seven group entities
  • Supporting the introduction of a new compensation system
  • Supporting the second phase of a merger
  • HR Business Partner for Finance and Marketing areas
  • Developing and negotiating the performance-based compensation system with works council involvement
  • Advising managers on the introduction of the WTW compensation system
  • Initiating a round table as part of an arbitration process, resulting in a KBV agreement
  • Negotiating a framework agreement with annexes for about 100 IT systems (system harmonization in merger)
  • Planning, managing, and implementing Employee Central and Time & Attendance for seven group entities
  • Administrative support during the merger
  • Advising CFO and Marketing GM as well as second management level
  • Efficient team support
  • Restoring trustful cooperation with the works council on equal terms
  • Solution-oriented advice to managers
  • Due to my flexibility, subject knowledge, and communication skills, I quickly took on further tasks and had my mandate extended twice.
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
11 months
Munich, Germany

Head of Human Resources (international)

PAY.ON AG

  • Taking on leadership role while predecessor was still on the team
  • Developing HR strategy and guidelines
  • Training team members
  • Optimizing HR processes
  • Supporting an M&A process (due diligence)
  • Revising the compensation model
  • Revising employment contracts
  • Revising the performance model
  • Advising management and second leadership level
  • Contact for labor law questions
  • Operational team support
  • Searching for a new HR lead
  • Successful sale of the company
  • Supporting integration
  • Handing over the qualified team and optimized processes to the permanent director
  • I quickly adapted to the international IT environment with high-security banking requirements. 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 Personalleiter einer Tochtergesellschaft

Atlas Copco Tools Central Europe GmbH

  • Taking over recruiting as external service provider for various subsidiaries
  • Taking on HR lead role for a subsidiary (covering illness)
  • Filling various positions as headhunter
  • Developing recruiting strategy and operationalizing it
  • Running various recruiting campaigns
  • Short-term takeover of operational HR business in all facets
  • Successfully filling open positions
  • Smooth support for managers and employees during illness cover
  • Due to very good understanding of subsidiary needs, I was given HR responsibility during illness cover. I contributed my flexibility, excellent expertise, and methodological knowledge to ensure smooth processes with the parent company.
Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
5 months
Munich, Germany

HR Consultant

Capgemini Deutschland GmbH

  • Leading a reorganization project (about 200 employees)
  • Creating project plan with milestones
  • Managing internal communication
  • Developing reporting structure
  • Building the project team
  • Defining work packages
  • Designing, organizing, and running the kick-off meeting
  • Conducting workshops
  • Successful project completion
  • Even surrounded by consultants, I applied my methodical and professional expertise to deliver a high-quality reorganization project.
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)
  • Writing job ads
  • Creating campaigns and accompanying sourcing measures
  • Leading and conducting one-on-one assessment centers (managers)
  • Conducting interviews
  • Advising managers on selection
  • Leading contract negotiations
  • Contact for the works council
  • Successful and fast position filling
  • Due to my strong performance, the department engaged me after my mandate ended, together with HR, for an insourcing project. Thanks to my fast and reliable work, I filled all positions to contract signature.
Jul 2010 - Present
15 years 1 month
Munich, Germany

Inhaberin

HRM Faussner

  • Interim management (HR Director, HR Business Partner, HR Project Manager)
  • Developing and operationalizing HR strategies
  • Developing and implementing personnel 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 one-on-one assessments (senior management level)
  • Coaching middle and top management
  • Contact for employee representatives / negotiation lead
  • 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 HR strategy
  • Supporting reorganizations (matrix, business transfer)
  • Advising management on all HR topics
  • Employer branding / personnel marketing
  • Recruiting
  • Talent development including training design and delivery
  • Coaching
  • Compensation & benefits
  • Contracts and labor law
  • Managing and ensuring quality of all HR processes
Feb 2002 - Nov 2007
5 years 10 months

Teamleiter Human Resources

Schmidt und Kaiser Kommunikationsberatung GmbH/ auratis AG (insgesamt 5 Netzwerkagenturen) / Omnicom

  • Disciplinary leadership responsibility
  • Business plan responsibility
  • Supporting reorganizations (due diligence / integration)
  • Leading the HRM area
  • Employer branding
  • Recruiting
  • Workforce planning / controlling
  • Talent 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

Geschäftsführerin / Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung

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

Leitende Angestellte

Physiowipp Medizintechnik

Responsible for finance & marketing

Apr 1989 - Feb 1993
3 years 11 months
Germany

Marketingassistentin

Sony Deutschland GmbH

Developing and implementing the CBS magalog

Jan 1988 - Mar 1989
1 year 3 months

Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin

CS-Verlags GmbH

Developing and publishing a regional lifestyle magazine

Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Education
Mar 1986 - Feb 1988

Universität Mannheim

Business Administration · Mannheim, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Certified Business Moderator

Certified Trainer

Certified Business Mediator IHK

IHK

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