Afsin Odabasi

Head of HR Shared Services - META @ Hilti

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

HR professional focus on Compensation&Benefit, Performance Management, HRIS, HR Service delivery Specialties: deep expertise in HRIS, applied different compensation&benefit policies / Performance systems, HAY / Mercer / Labor law knowledge, experience in 4 different sectors in various sectors (Energy, Distribution, Retail, Telecom), Int'l company experience, IT project management, HR Services Delivery Management

Experience

  • Head of HR Shared Services - META at Hilti Group
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • People Excellence Manager - META at Philips
    Aug 2021 - Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • HRIS Manager at Arçelik Global
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • HR Services Manager at Vodafone
    Jun 2011 - Jul 2018 · 7 yrs 2 mos

  • HR Services & Projects Lead at Best Buy
    Jun 2009 - Dec 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Manages performance management program, coordinates performance targets and process, analyzes performance results, prepares feedbacks on system and uses performance results on merit increase Administrates long / short term, GO and shrink incentive programs, communicates these plans with employees, support employees for plan details, plans budget for those incentives and prepares incentive reports for management Runs award programs that encourages company objectives and values, communicates program with employees Plans merit increase strategy and performs merit increases Participates HAY/Mercer Salary surveys and applies these methodologies to Pay/merit strategies Plans HR Budget, forecast future expenses and manages HR P/L Creates Int'l and local reporting forms, delivers those reports, prepares forms and process for HR process Administrates engagement/satisfaction surveys companywide, communicates with employees, organises feedback meetings and roundtable meetings, consolidates feedbacks and prepare next steps for HR and other departments Facilitates corporate - retail synchronisation, supports retail HR team Implements Int'l process to local while considering local market practices and team's experience Performs benchmark studies, creates benchmark reports Prepared Business cases for system development requests Worked closely with international resources, third parties and maximised benefits from system Developped processes for business and system side which facilitates business - system capabilities First point of contact for any system and business issues, contacted with third parties for any issue detection, fixes and test sessions, Assured defectless working environment for SAP, realised planned tests to control system performance Developped test scripts and runned various testing sessions to go-live Prepared training materials for SAP trainings / hands-on experience sessions to gain better experience to end-users