Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- You're never too important to be NICE to people! Leadership is about being STRONG & KIND - Human Resources executive (business partner/generalist and (in-house) labor law attorney) with substantial industry/manufacturing experience in international matrix and functional organizations with fast paste change cultures (US/UK incl. private equity driven). Well positioned for providing preemptive operational and strategic HR business partnering and employment law support in German and English. Focus on coaching of executives and senior leaders, providing guidance as an HR business leader along with legal advise in labour and employment law as well as helping to create an entrepreneurial labor relation culture. Certified business mediator and systemic Business Coach able to help avoiding conflicts and develop them into solutions. Specialties: HR Partnering on Executive Level; German (collective) Labour and employment law, systemic coaching, works council negotiations and business mediation
Team leader of UK&Europe Human Resouces CoE team (5 direct reports/team of 8). Responsible for driving a commercially focused mindset for sustainable business decision making in employee&industrial relation matters&negotitaions for a workforce of more than 30.000 people in the region.
Team leader of the EU&APAC field HR team (8 direct reports) responsible for about 2000 associates at 20 production sites. Operational and strategic HR&Legal Advisor, Mediator and Coach supporting the regional Management teams in EU&APAC (EU: Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain&UK; APAC: China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan&Thailand. Responsible for driving and developing HR Processes and Policies, leadership coaching and digital HR-Transformation.
Team leader of the German field HR team (12 indirect/direct reports) responsible for about 1000 associates at 4 production sites / HR Business partner for the global VP for Manufacturing in the Epoxy resin BU (8 production sites in the EU, Asia and US with 1300 associates in total)
Head of German operational HR (12 direct HRM and HRRep reports working in 5 plants serving 1000 associates and taking care of the apprentice programm) ; CoE for Labor law and works council relations
Sole responsible legal counsel Germany taking care of all legal matters including bilingual contract negotiations, negotiations with works council and HR, customers and authorities, legal proceedings, advising supervisory board members and managing directors