Director People & Progress / Transformation Manager

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

Responsibility and management of finance and HR

Developing and implementing the CBS magalog