Key Competencies:

HR Leadership / Negotiator

• HR Leadership Roles Interim
• Employee relations
• Chief Negotiator
• Restructure / Transformation/ Company closure
• Company transfer processes
• Workers council negotiation /Union relations

 

 

Integration

• M & A processes
• Due Diligence / HR processes
• Integration of new businesses
• Employee relations / company agreements
• Communication
• Talent Management

 

 

Tools & HR IS

• HR Tools Implementation (time tracking, workforce planning, payroll) and related processes
• Payroll & processes

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

• since 02/2010
  Managing Director joka HR Services Human Resources
  www.joka-hr.de
  Cologne, Germany
  
  
  

    Project examples:

 

• 2021-2023 – Chief negotiator / HR Project lead - to lead the HR Workstream in a plant closure in Germany/nearby Berlin (tier 1 automotive) and transfer the knowledge and production to sister plants in Poland and China. Social Plan and Balance of Interest negotiation with works council and Union IG Metall (2021) and execution of terminations in 5 waves (2022-2024).
  
  
• 2020-2023 = Chief negotiator for the employer side in a collective bargaining negotiation – Glass industry with IGBCE Union.
  
  
• 2020-2021 = HR Director Germany (Interim) in an industrial trading company in Halle/Westfalen (800 employees in Germany), workers council negotiations, staff reduction, social plan negotiation.
  
  
• 2019 = HR Expert / Negotiator within an Integration of a carved-out business unit into a global US company, tools & processes, works council involvement (600 employees in Germany, automotive tier 1 supplier).
  
  
• 2018 = HR Project Lead Carve out activities & Transformation, several carve out activities, Due diligence support during a transformation phase, workers council involvement in an international global industrial company (700 employees in Germany, automotive tier 1 supplier).
  
  
• 2018 = HR Project Lead - Implementation of a new time tracking and workforce planning system in a technology corporation with 6 sites in Germany.
  
  
• 2017 = Acting Plant Manager / Chief negotiator (Norwegian automotive tier 1 supplier) to lead the company closure in Germany and transfer the knowledge and production to a sister plant in Slovakia. Ensuring daily shipments to OEM customers. Leading Operations, Procurement, Sales & Customer Management, Transfer and the company closure, incl. social plan (negotiation with works council and Union IG Metall).
  
  
• 2014-2016 = Project Lead Integration (M&A) & Restructuring, 2 plant closures and partial closures of German sites of an English / American company. Integration into existing structures, partly automotive (Tier 1 supplier), negotiations with the works council/Union IG Metall.
  
  
• 2012-2014 = Project Lead Integration (M&A) Interim HR Manager in an international global industrial company (120 employees) – integration after merger / acquisition, restructuring, negotiations with works council and union.
  
  
• 2012 = Support the worldwide roll-out of a Bonus system / Performance System in a global German industrial company with entities in 50 countries.
  
  
• 2011-2013 = Workers council negotiations & Transformation for a global supply chain company / Helathcare in Germany
  
  
• 2011-2012 = Set up new German business for a global telecommunication company
  
  
• 2010-2011 = Outsourcing and Restructuring of several departments in a worldwide Logistics Company (2500 employees in Germany)
  
  
• 2010 = HR Transformation Analysis in a German industrial cooperation with a multinational background (Portuguese parent company). Goal was the centralization or outsourcing of the HR department in the 5 branches in Germany to increase efficiency (1800 employees in Germany)
  
  
• 2010 = Payroll analysis Europe (Germany, UK, France and 12 other countries) for a global Insurance company. Goal was the centralization of the department in one hub in Europe. (app. 1000 employees in Europe)
  
  
  
• 2018 - 06/2019
  HR Integration of a carved-out business unit into a global US company, tools & processes, works council involvement (600 employees in Germany, automotive tier 1 supplier).
  
  
• 2018
  Carve out activities & Transformation, several carve out activities, Due diligence support during a transformation phase, workers council involvement in an international global industrial company (700 employees in Germany, automotive tier 1 supplier).
  
  
• 2018
  Implementation of a new time tracking and workforce planning system in a technology corporation with 6 sites in Germany.
  
  
• 2017
  Acting Plant Manager (Norwegian automotive tier 1 supplier) to lead the company closure in Germany and transfer the knowledge and production to a sister plant in Slovakia. Ensuring daily shipments to OEM customers. Leading Operations, Procurement, Sales & Customer Management, Transfer and the company closure, incl. social plan.
  
  
• 2014-2016
  Project Lead Integration (M&A) & Restructuring, 2 plant closures and partial closures of German sites of an English / American company. Integration into existing structures, partly automotive (Tier 1 supplier), negotiations with the works council.
  
  
• 2012-2014
  Integration (M&A) Interim HR Manager in an international global industrial company (120 employees) – integration after merger / acquisition, restructuring, negotiations with workers council and union.
  
  
• 2012
  Support the worldwide roll-out of a Bonus system / Performance System in a global German industrial company with entities in 50 countries.
  
  
• 2011-2013
  Workers council negotiations & Transformation for a global supply chain company / Helathcare in Germany
  
  
• 2011-2012
  Set up new German business for a global telecommunication company
  
  
• 2010-2011
  Outsourcing and Restructuring of several departments in a worldwide Logistics Company (2500 employees in Germany)
  
  
• 2010
  HR Transformation Analysis in a German industrial cooperation with a multinational background (Portuguese parent company). Goal was the centralization or outsourcing of the HR department in the 5 branches in Germany to increase efficiency (1800 employees in Germany)
  
  
• 2010
  Payroll analysis Europe (Germany, UK, France and 12 other countries) for a global Insurance company. Goal was the centralization of the department in one hub in Europe. (app. 1000 employees in Europe)

• 05/2009 -01/2010
  Senior HR Manager Central Europe Human Resources

• HR Business Partner for the Management and member of the European HR Leadership Team
• Managing the HR Team with up to 6 direct & indirect reports
• Responsible for all HR issues, mainly:
• Strategic HR decisions and plans
• Restructuring (2 main projects of redundancies and organizational restructuring)
• Responsible for Planning (Budget and Headcounts)
• Performance Management, Human Resources Development, Management Coaching
• Training & Development, Leadership competencies, Talent Planning, Succession Planning
• Act in discussion as a coach, conducting discussions
• Labour law issues, workers council
• Partner for HR Europe & International projects
• Extra Projects: Office closures, restructuring and redundancies, creating structure in the new region, local learning & development in the region, European projects, navigate the process of implementing a workers council from the employer side

 

 

• 10/2007 -04/2009
  Senior HR Manager Human Resources
  Germany Switzerland Austria (appr. 350 employees)
  www.electronic-arts.de
  Electronic Arts GmbH in Cologne, Germany

 

• HR Business Partner for the Management and member of the European HR Leadership Team
• Managing the HR Team with 5 direct & indirect reports
• Responsible for all HR issues, mainly:
• Strategic HR decisions and plans
• Restructuring (2 main projects of redundancies and organizational restructuring)
• Responsible for Planning (Budget and Headcounts)
• Performance Management, Human Resources Development, Management Coaching
• Training & Development, Leadership competencies, Talent Planning, Succession Planning
• Act in discussion as a coach, conducting discussions
• Labour law issues
• Landmark decisions in tax and social insurance, supervising the payroll
• Extra Projects: Restructure projects, Lay –offs, European harmonization strategies, implementing local learning & development in the region

 

 

• 10/2005 -09/2007
  HR - Advisor Human Resources

• Substitute for the HR Manager
• Full responsibility for the complete Recruiting for all positions
• Performance Management, Human Resources Development
• Administrative Support for all employees
• Act in discussion as a coach, conducting discussions
• Support in Planning (Budget and Headcounts)
• Support for HR projects
• Leaver support (interviews regarding the reasons for leaving, writing references)
• Supervising the payroll regarding general tax or social insurance matters and having an overview over the daily work
• Extra Projects: building a modern HR Structure in Germany, implementing payroll internally (ADP), implementing HR planning and control
  
  
  

• 09/2004 – 09/2005
  Professional for International Assignment Services /Human Resources Solutions

• Tax and social insurance advice for expatriates (inbound & outbound) in international companies
• Expertise regarding general tax or social insurance matters
• Reviewing employment contracts and relocation policies
• Implementing expatriate systems for international companies
• Extra Projects: building expatriate systems, advices

 

 

• 05/2001 – 06/2004
  Experienced Payroll Accountant/Human Resources–

• Payroll advisory service and administration service for about 1300 employees
• Implementing several Compensations & Benefit Projects
• Intensive Cooperation with the departments Career Development and Recruiting

 

 

• 01/1998 – 02/2001
  HR Generalist

• Full responsibility for staff planning (Headcount) and budgeting
• Payroll advisory service for about 350 employees
• Implementing several Compensations & Benefit Projects
• Intensive cooperation with the workers council/union
• Tariff handling
• Recruiting
• Projects
• Human Resource Development
• Extra Projects: building a modern HR Structure, implementing new payroll (HRIS system (from Paisy up to SAP HR), creating Business Units, implementing HR planning and control

 

 

Education

 

 

• 10/2007 – 05/2008
  Certification Thomas International /Thomas System: Business Assessment Tools
  
  
  
• 04/2000 – 08/2004
  University studies: Economics with the main subjects Human Resources, Tax and Macroeconomics (international economic relations)
  Diploma / Master degree in economics
  at the University Essen, Germany
  
  
  
• 03/2003 –  04/2003
  Internship with Yokogawa Corporation of America
  www.yokogawa.com/us/
  in Phoenix, Arizona/USA
  
  
  
• 09/1995 – 01/1998
  Apprenticeship: clerk in an industrial company with the main part in Human Resources
  Sachtleben Chemie GmbH, today Venator
  Duisburg, Germany
  
  
  
• 1995
  High School Diploma, general qualification for university entrance

 

 

 

Language & technical competencies

• German: native / English:  fluent (C2)
• PC: MS-Office, various HR systems and tools