Hulya Melis Gulen

Human Resources Director

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experience

  • Country HR Director at Alliance Healthcare Türkiye
    Aug 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Cencora Alliance Healthcare(AH) is operating in mainly drug wholesale area and a division of Cencora (https://www.cencora.com). AH Turkiye has almost 4.000 employees in 76 locations. Main Highlights: 1. Leading Human Resources department size of 35 HR Professionals 2. Being a member of Executive Board Committee 3. Leading country HR agenda on an end to end basis

  • Nestlé (Full-time · 5 yrs)
    • Head of HR, Nestlé in the market Operations
      Mar 2024 - Aug 2024 · 6 mos

      In charge of 2,000 employees wc/bc Leading team of 14 - coach and develop Responsible from all categories including Nestle Waters, Purina Petcare, Cereal, Coffee, Confectionery, Health Science In charge of strategy and execution of Industrial Relations for all categories

    • Head of HR, Nespresso Turkiye and HRBP Operations
      Jan 2022 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      End to End strategic HR Business Partner to > 650 white collar, >950 blue collar employees, >70 retail boutiques employees in 17 locations In charge of Operations HR Team, coaching developing the team Building strategy for industrial relations and collective labor agreement Being part of Leadership Team of Supply Chain / Technical and Nespresso Mancom Co-piloting related management board member or BEO for commercial and people decisions

    • Snr HRBP Purina Pet Care, Nespresso, Br. Cereals, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Technical-Operations
      Sep 2019 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      HR Business Partner covering Purina Pet Care, Nespresso, Breakfast Cereals businesses, and Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Technical Department (Quality, Regulatory, Coman, Engineering etc) Reporting to Market HR Director Working with 3 different GM and 4 different Country Management Committee Members

  • BAT (3 yrs 3 mos)
    • Head of HR, Operations
      Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 · 4 mos

    • HR Manager Senior HR Business Partner Operations - Manufacturing
      Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Senior Plant HR Business Partner covering all Operations Organisation i.e. manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, engineering, quality, product -Supporting all factory size of >1000 employees based in Samsun (one of the biggest factory of BAT) -Leading a team of 2 people - Being part of manufacturing leadership team -Managing union on day to day basis and building/leading the strategy for collective labor agreement

    • HR Manager Senior HRBP Corporate Functions
      Jul 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Senior HR Business Partner covering IT, Legal, Finance, HR, Procurement, External Affairs, Facilities -Supporting 4 different Top Team member and their teams as strategic HR advisor -Directly reporting to Area HR Director and being a part of HRLT -Supporting North Africa Area for HR processes

  • Assistant Manager HR Business Partner Sales & Marketing at Unilever
    May 2015 - May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Serving as an employee champion to drive a modern, fair and ethical company culture Driving and advising the customer development function on the key business HR processes/initiatives consistently and to the required quality in line with the way of working and best practices, including:  Talent Sourcing & Employer branding activities Talent Management (work force planning, performance management, development & career management, succession planning) Reward Management and Organizational Development Ensuring the delivery of HR agenda in line with business objectives and track & trace on progress and development Providing advice and support to line managers in managing high performance culture Defining and addressing short & long-term people needs at individual performance culture and ensuring compliance with relevant Turkey legislations 

  • HR Business Partner (HR Global Graduate Program) at Citi
    Jul 2012 - Jun 2015 · 3 yrs

    2nd and 3rd rotation’s roles and responsibilities at Business Partnering team with Learning and Development responsibilites: • M&A experience with respect to HR point of view • Business partner and relationship management: • Talent management and succession planning: • Talent retention • Recruitment • Campus activities • Voice of employee cycle • Promotion cycle • Reward and Recognition program • Diversity and International Women’s Day Organisations 1st and 4th rotations responsibilities at Compensation & Benefits and Employee Relations team : Reporting Local Manager of Compensation and Benefits, Employee Relations, Reporting EMEA Global Mobility Manager A cost efficiency project: Increasing the efficiency of variable Compensation Plans of all Bank (Branch, Citiphone, Collection...) Dynamics of the commission plans, creating new variable compensation plans and negotiating with business on the new compensation plan • Assisting Country HR Officer and Senior HR Business Partner as Compensation Analyst being charge of Bonus, Salary Increase, Promotions and all year-end related issues. • Being a partner of salary recommendation, bonus input and promotion decision • HR policy and procedures follow up, and manage with new updates of laws continuously. • Preparing monthly scorecard and turnover reports • Conduct disciplinary processes for all Bank employees, decide disciplinary actions and Labour Law related issues • Work as ER partner on Labor Law and Courts by preparing necessary official documents • Corrective action management • Mediate between benefits providers and employees, such as by assisting in handling employees' benefits-related questions or taking suggestions. • Before year-end cycle analysis of market data as well as employee’s core work in order to match it with correct market position • Prepare bank’s presentation for Board and BDDK •Manage the Headcount planning Global Mobility (creating Turkey specific spotlights)