Marlies Strobl

Global P&C Business Partner IT | Crayon & SoftwareOne

Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

About

As a Global P&C Business Partner at Crayon/SoftwareOne (Crayon has been merged with SoftwareOne on July, 2nd 2025), I am partnering with the Leadership Team of our Global IT Organization to establish and execute on our people priorities aligned with our global and local standards. In this function I am supporting in total 500 FTE's including 65 Leaders across 31 different countries. In addition I am currently supporting our Legal Team with a total of 60 HC across the globe. I am a people driven personality with a strong focus on transparency and international working mindset. I enjoy working with teams with diverse perspectives and a common ambition work towards a shared goal.

Experience

  • Crayon (5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Global People & Culture Business Partner IT (Crayon and SoftwareOne)
      Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

      - Global responsibility as P&C BP for the Internal IT Organisation for Crayon and SoftwareOne (Total HC: ~ 500) - Change Management and Organizational Design after the merger - Sparring Partner for the IT Leadership team (14 Senior Leaders incl. CIO) and People Leaders (65 in total) - Close collaboration with local P&C BP and Leads across 31 different countries - Assignment: Global P&C BP for Legal (Total HC: ~ 60)

    • Senior HR Business Partner Europe
      Feb 2025 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr

      - Regional HR Business Partner responsibilities, working alongside our HR Director for Europe and setting-up the HR region. Alignment on a common HR Roadmap within 20 countries across Europe. - Strategic HR Business Partner for the Data & AI Center of Excellence Europe - Change Management activities to prepare for the merger between Crayon and SoftwareOne

    • Head of HR (Data & AI Services)
      Nov 2022 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      - Leading the HR department of our global Data & AI Service Practice (EMEA & APAC) - Strategic Business Partnering of our leaders - Managing and working on strategic HR projects & programs such as Leadership Development, Performance & Development, Career Development, DEI, ESG, Compensation & Benefits, Global Internship Framework etc. - Employee Relation Management - Together with my team overseeing the whole employee life cycle for our employees - Operational HR responsibility for Austria - Office Management responsibility for our Vienna hub

  • Time off at Sabbatical
    Jan 2021 - Apr 2021 · 4 mos

    Skiing instructor course & backpacking in Costa Rica, Mexico & Colombia

  • HR Generalist at Microsoft
    Jun 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    - HR Business Partner for external staff - HR Consulting (Performance & Rewards, Employee Relation & Manager Consultation) - Owning and driving HR Projects (Audit family & job, Well-being campaign) - Local young talent champ and partnership with our international HR community - Onboarding champ for Austria - Organizing and executing talent attraction & retention initiatives - HR Operations (Project lead collective bargaining agreement change roll-out, Implementation of a new time tracking system)

  • Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding at A1 Digital International GmbH
    Jul 2017 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr

    - End-to-end recuriting for all positions of the newly established A1 Digital International (Vienna) and A1 Digital Germany (Munich and Germany-home office based) working together with the leadership team and the people manager - Cooperation with international Headhunter - Creating and executing Employer Branding initiatives - Set-Up of external Career Site - SPOC for implementing new Recruiting System "Zoho" for the subsidiary - Setting-up new HR Processes in Austria and Germany

  • Microsoft (1 yr 8 mos)
    • Human Resources Specialist
      Nov 2016 - Jun 2017 · 8 mos

      - Executing Great Place to Work Assessment - Organization of employee events (Stay Connected, Daugther's Day, etc.) - Support HR BP in performance reviews & analyzing data - Organization career development trainings, executive visits, external events - Planing and executing an internal and external talent days - Re-Audit of the certificate "audit job & family"

    • Intern Human Resources Austria
      Nov 2015 - Oct 2016 · 1 yr

      - Support HR Managers in the performance reviews - Organizing internal employee events - Supporting Assessment Centers - Employer Branding activities (Career fairs, Vienna's Daughter Day, Whatchado, Great Place to Work) - Creating analysis/presentations, communication templates etc. - Supporting employees in time record issues