Beraterin für HR/ Recruiting, Organisationsentwicklung und Digitale HR Transformation

Senior Manager, Human Resources 11/ 2005 – 07/2012

Regional responsibility - Central Europe (DACH), Benelux & Nordics, approx. 120 -140 employees 01/ 2010 – 07/2012

Regional responsibility - Central Europe (DACH), Italy, Spain and Portugal, approx. 120 – 200 employees 11/ 2005 – 12/ 2009

Main Responsibilities & Major Achievements:

1. Recruitment - University to Senior Director level for all business lines, implementation of completely new recruiting process with defined SLA’s, re-created the MicroStrategy SummerSchool for students, negotiation of  employment  offers and contracts with headhunters, recruitment and  advertising agencies in line with approved budget, On-boarding with new initiatives created as pilot project in DACH and implemented within a year globally: first week agenda and  New Hire Day for all new hires in EMEA.
2. HR Development - created and implemented 2 year development & training plan for German team, sales competency model incl. individual development plans, implementation of new global Career Path Consulting program based on new Competency model.
3. Performance Management – training and coaching of managers related to annual & quarterly reviews, advising line managers related to Performance Improvement Plans (PIP) and supported managers in PIP meetings.
4. HR Admin - of paper files and maintenance of HR system information, etc.; Compensation & Benefits - annual salary survey in 2007 and 2008, Car Policy, Home Office Agreement for Consultants, Pension Plans, restaurant vouchers, etc.; Labor Law - disciplinary cases, formal warnings, terminations, Visa applications, sabbaticals, maternity & parental leaves etc.; HR advisory - of line managers in the region in all HR and leadership aspects; negotiation - Training vendor contracts.
5. Strategic Project (April 2006 – December 2006) – Head of Recruitment for the new “Shared Services Center Office incl. Nearshore Global Delivery Center - Poland” (headcount in April: 0; headcount in Nov. 2006: 70 employees).
6. HR Software: Roll-out of a new HRIS platform for Recruiting & Admin and Document Management tool (developed by MicroStrategy) - power user in EMEA
7. Leadership of team up to 4 HR professionals (Associate, 2 Senior Generalist, and 1 Manager with 10 years’ experience and a team of 2 Associates ).

Areas of Responsibilities & Major Achievements:

1. Recruitment - 60 New Hires in 6 months before hiring freeze end of May 2000, organization of the second MicroStrategy Summer School with 60 students from Germany, Austria and Switzerland and 4 Partner Companies.
2. HR Development – implementation of worldwide annual review process and evaluation of employee training & education, and evaluation & coordination of annual outdoor team building event.
3. HR administration – all aspect of updating HR information in personnel files, supporting annual review process up to giving advice in disciplinary cases. First HR in Europe - all processes, procedures and documents needed to be localized and/ or set up.
4. Mass redundancy 2001 with approx. 60% headcount cut (DACH region: ca. 120 employee down to ca. 45 employees incl. Office closing in Austria & Switzerland) with no budget for severance packages.

Further responsibilities from August 2001 based on organizational restructuring and change:

1. Sales & Contract Management - restructured lead generation process, sales forecast tracking, local lead for integration and training of sales support (Salesforce) and information systems in Central Europe (DACH).
2. Special project - supported organizational and workflow restructuring in Central Europe (DACH).

Full project management: From target account lists to face-to-face job interviews and project documentation, research completely by phone (no social media and only limited internet information available)

Industry & profile focus:
Retail/wholesale: IT managers & engineers;
Finance: legal specialists, sales managers & GM;
Pharmaceutical: marketing & sales managers;
Automobile: development, purchase & sales engineers, managers & CTO; IT: SAP & CRM technical & sales engineers.

Job level:  From functional specialist to VP and CXO-level.

IT Office Coordinator: Mainly database application (new implementation in January 1998) for Düsseldorf office.

Achievements:
 24 Research projects successfully executed + 1 SAP Developer project with 6 positions, and
Successfully created & implemented standard research project documentation process incl. handbook, and database user training (all Project Managers, Researchers and Assistants).

Motivation for change: Got in contact with MicroStrategy on CeBIT due to Search Projects in Data Warehouse and Decision Support Systems (today area of BI / Analytics). MicroStrategy offered a great opportunity as HR Manager to set up HR for the DACH region.

Advertisement agency: Full responsibility of media planning, text & layout;
Achievement: Restructuring of the agency processes with 30% decrease in costs of production

Executive Research: Target account lists, pre-selection of candidates by telephone, and project documentation; Industry focus: Automobile: sales, development and application engineers;
Achievement: 6 projects successfully executed

Motivation for change: No clear strategy of the four co-owners of the Executive Search Company & Advertisement agency.

Business-to-business studies: Conducted telephone interviews (including pre-tests with live audit reviews by clients and customers), and reviewed, pre-tested and optimized interview scripts for PC-based interviews.

Focus: Decision makers (CXO-level, GMs, MDs & Department Directors, politicians, journalists, etc.), IT business (Top Management for investment decisions: CEO, CFO & CIO or director’s level), Marketing success monitoring project (Marketing & Sales Managers), country  specific  (EU)  customer  satisfaction  research  (Lawyers,  Sales,  Purchase  or  Tech. Managers/ Directors).

Achievement: One of the Top 3 Interviewer in Business-to-Business research studies.

Motivation for change: Received an offer from  Rohde & Partner with the opportunity to gain experience in Executive Search & Advertisement Agency area, and to use all my strengths and competencies.