Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Senior Human Resources Executive with several years of international experience across multiple industries including Pharmaceutical, Engineering & Nutrition. Expertise in global mobility, business partnership, Employee Benefits Design, Compensation & Benefits and employment law/regulatory affairs. Proven track record delivering results through building and leading highly effective organizations both domestically and globally. A trusted advisor to senior leaders helping them drive transformation and achieve positive business outcomes by managing HR complexity effectively while balancing the strategic needs of the organization and implementing best practices for business growth, continuous improvement and compliance
● Member of Global TR, Nutrition P&O Global Leadership Teams, Frequent presenter at Executive Leadership Team meetings ● M&A: Key player for acquisition projects within the Nutrition Cluster, especially in terms of due diligence, SPA preparation, integration planning, and management team onboarding negotiations. ● Restructuring: Member of the Core Project Team for the biggest reorganization of DSM Nutritional Products (the former Roche Vitamins) since its acquisition in 2003. Main responsibilities included baselining and defining modelling guidelines for whole organization, organizational design guidelines, incentive structure of new organization. ● People Management: Oversee a team of 17 employees, new initiatives to organize project & process work through internal tooling. ● DSM Short-Term Incentive Framework: Member of core project team to create non-sales incentive framework cross-industry for approx. 5,000 employees. ● Sales Incentives: Lead global sales incentive governance, eligibility, design, and tooling project for a sales force with €6 billion in revenues. ● Joint Ventures: Responsible for structuring employment agreements, reward policies for €200 million JV in the aqua farming sector. ● Salary Management: o Global divisional leader and cross-divisional leader in EMEA region for design and implementation of salary structures affecting 12,000 employees, as well as budgeting and the annual compensation review process. o Implemented MarketPay in Region EMEA (25 countries), for salary structures, merit matrices & job pricing functions. ● Pension: Chair of the DSM Nutritional Products Pension Steering Committee (bi-annual review of major global pension topics with CFO, CHRO, Chief Actuary) ● Executive Case Management ● FTE Budgeting: Established FTE budgeting & position management concept for DSM Nutritional Products (approx 12,000 employees).
N.B.- In the context of the J&J / Actelion deal in 2017, I was allocated to Idorsia as part of the de-merger, after I had already accepted an offer from DSM and given notice to Actelion. Stock Option Plan: Driver of all-employee listing stock option plan, coordinating design, communications, process-building, plan regulations, due diligence, and grant levels. Founding Documents: Contributor to the listing prospectus & Articles of Association, esp. with regard to the calculation of binding executive and board compensation budgets Payroll & HR Processes: Established Core HR & payroll processes, employee insurance, social security, and work permits.