Belgrade, Serbia
An HR Manager with 15+ years of experience in the field, including several years in HR BP / Head of HR roles in FMCG, Healthcare and Manufacturing industries across multinational, matrix organizations. I have been managing HR function throughout several complex change management projects - relating to organizational design & effectiveness, HR systems implementation and HR processes improvement. Feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss any area of HR or maybe have an informal chat about photography and music.
I was leading HR function as a member of the regional Leadership team and supporting 14 countries in the organizational development and key talents’ individual development (app. 300 mn USD in net sales and 650 employees), where the key stakeholders were the regional team (regional VPs and Directors), GMs and their direct reports. The region and its markets (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece) were a mix of several companies acquired by Bausch Health in recent years and not fully integrated into its global organizational culture and processes. My key task was to ensure proper and consistent HR management across this diverse region and ensure further integration and organizational development through designing, implementing and embedding HR processes.
As a member of the local Leadership Team, I was in charge of developing HR`s functional strategy which was aligned with and supporting the business strategy for the organization. Also, I was acting as a strategic business partner by providing HR consultancy and delivering effective HR practices across all aspects of the business. I was responsible for setting up, interpreting and maintaining HR strategy, processes and policies in the end market by providing consistency across the organization and in line with the above-market guidance (global, regional and cluster). Besides the local responsibilities, I was also the Talent Management Lead for the Central Europe Cluster (12 countries), where some of the responsibilities were to facilitate Talent Reviews, high-potentials’ career planning, succession planning, but also to implement global initiatives (e.g. Recruitment Shared Services, L&D systems, performance management systems, etc.), including the respective change management.
Acting as a single point of contact for all the functions across the organization and supporting them in HR matters, such as: Attraction and Recruitment (from the attraction campaign to the onboarding), Talent Management (Talent Review cycle and Career Management), Performance Management (Performance Appraisal cycle and ongoing over/underperformance management), Training & Development (creating local portfolio and tailor-made development programs, facilitating local programs), Reward (acting as a senior consultant for HR), Budget Management (HR OPEX), Change Management (cascading global and regional initiatives and HR systems through a proper change, communication and training plan) and Organizational Development & Effectiveness. Occasionally supporting Bulgarian organization in BAU processes (Recruitment, Talent Reviews, etc.).
- Recruitment & Selection - Talent Management - Performance Management - Training & Development - Reward - Budget Management