Multi lingual, data savvy HR Business Partner Director/VP

Primary specialism: HR Business Partner

Markets with deep expertise: EMEA region with deep expertise for Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, and expanded professional knowledge for UK.

Languages : English, German

Salary expectations: From equivalent EUR 174,000 base salary plus package

Workforce types directly supported: Senior executives (P&L leaders), key business stakeholders, external partners (outsourced services) as well as HR partners and CoE's while always being in touch with core business workforces

Current home country: Germany, open to travel/relocate globally with preference to be based in London.

Mobility: Europe, Asia

Team management: Currently 9 direct reports with a total team size of 100 people globally. I have also worked with dotted line reports with the need for influencing without direct line manager authority. I enjoy working with a diverse, international team.

Current/recent employer: Current employer has an annual turnover over EUR 8 billion with circa 40,000 employees globally. Previous employer had annual revenues of around USD 84 billion and over 500,000 employees.

Remits of particular interest: Seeking a challenging position with a forward-thinking company, to leverage extensive HR experience, ideally within an executive or senior HR role globally.

Unique expertise:

  • I am an accomplished, innovative and solution-focused Global HR Leader, with 9 years of HR experience in implementing, developing and executing winning HR initiatives for multibillion-dollar/euro enterprises.

  • Able to influence the way policy and change are managed and perceived throughout a company.

  • Knowledgeable in a wide range of HR functions within a strategic and operational context.

  • Able to function as a Senior and Executive HR Professional, complemented with the capacity to develop and implement successful HR strategies that support corporate mandate.

Commerciality:

  • Have been successful in driving the most significant business as well as HR transformations in Europe, including target operating model design, cultural influence, technology/systems and outsourced services.

  • Established leaner and high-performing teams, in orchestrating a people analytics implementation which resulted in KPI improvements like time to fill from 89 days, to 21. Orchestrating people analytics implementation.

  • Steered negotiations with 5 work councils to define agile structures and processes, which reduced organisational overhead costs by 3.5%, whilst propelling profitable growth by 27.8%.

  • Mitigated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the organisation, by implementing a remote work concept before the pandemic; which involved approval of authorities and unions.

  • Formulated an inclusive culture of learning and career growth, through the design and roll-out of a performance management cycle, which led to increasing female Operations Manager ratio from 0%, to 33%.

  • Influenced the Executive Team on committee efficiency, meaningful goal setting, unconscious bias training, celebrating success, encouraging open feedback, practical diagnostics for capability assessments, and individual development plan creation.

  • Shaped the company’s culture, with a focus on talent to increase customer value for impactful transformational projects, by mentoring a group of cultural ambassadors (hidden leaders, influencers).

  • Spearheaded the negotiations with National Unions and Europeans Works Council, rolling out a new structure connected to wage bands based on benchmarking (including a cultural shift from seniority concept, to career progression based on capabilities), which led to reducing turnover from 14%, to 5.9%.

Strengths: Global HR leader that has thrived across a number of geographies, and business cultures. I consider myself eminently adaptable, self-reflective and with a solid emotional quotient. While applying a humanistic approach, I am always focused on what matters for the business.

Need to know: Three core values defining my personality: safety, integrity, independency. Thriving to create a safe work environment that enables growth where people can be their true best self

Would you like more details on this professional, to fill a potential gap in your HR team? 

CMTS reference 59983

Change Management, HR Business PartnerLeanne Morris