Alexander Müller

Head of HR Europe South

Austria

About

17 years of experience in HR, with background from different industries, countries and HR functions. International and Global roles for more than 10 years with strong business acumen. Currently working as Global HR Business Partner supporting different central functions worldwide. Previously led HR Clusters in CEE and HR Austria. Specialties: organizational design and development, talent management, leadership development, change management, people management, workforce planning, company culture, senior leadership coaching and mentoring.

Experience

  • Nokia (Full-time · 16 yrs 3 mos)
    • Head of HR Europe South
      Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

      Leading the Europe South team and delivering excellent and meaningful human touchpoints and digital experiences through and beyond efficient people processes. • Act as company representative in the region, both towards internal stakeholders and external entities in order to provide trustful guidance and strategy on people matters. • Advise stakeholders about the frame of local legislation, proactively raise eventual constrains and mitigation, to ensure compliance. • Design, develop and lead projects within the region in order to contribute for leveraging employees engagement and the branding of the company within the Country.

    • Global HR Business Partner
      Apr 2016 - May 2021 · 5 yrs 2 mos

      HR Business Partner for Operations and Central Functions (Transformation, Commercial Management, Supply Chain, IT, CFO)  Driving the people strategy together with the respective leadership teams  Defining the culture aspiration for the business and workforce strategy  Supporting the implementation of shared service centres to bundle resources and gain efficiency  IT capability insourcing and hiring of 300+ employees  Budget management for all reward & recognition activities in the business unit  Succession planning and talent management for senior management

    • Strategic HR Consultant for Pre-Sales Europe & LAT
      Sep 2013 - Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

       Supporting the Pre-Sales Leadership Team regarding all people processes and HR strategy  Driving the HR agenda for the business in line with global guidelines  People Management and Leadership: Performance management, talent management, competence development, career and successor planning  Internal ramp up of the Integration Management Office including the Clean Team as temporary project organization for the Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent integration

  • Head of HR Penny International at REWE Group
    Sep 2007 - Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

     Design and Implementation of Corporate HR Strategy for Penny International (Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria) along the employee life cycle with 6 direct reports and a team of roughly 50 HR colleagues.

  • PENNY Markt Österreich (Vienna, Austria)
    • Head of HR Penny Austria
      Jan 2005 - Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos

       Managing with a team of 4 direct reports all people related topics for roughly 2000 employees

    • HR Consultant PENNY Austria
      Jun 2003 - Dec 2004 · 1 yr 7 mos

       Competence Development for new joiners, career path design, employee communication, engagement survey, performance evaluation and retention.