Torsten Oehme

Transforming the HR technology stack at Siemens Energy

Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany

About

I enjoy working together with a passionate global cross-functional team to drive our HR transformation at Siemens Energy. I am looking at ways to simplify and think with an open mind about continuous improvement that addresses the diverse needs of global organizations. I have a good sense for connecting the right people to solve problems across different organizations. I find balance to the global and demanding projects at work with my family and in the mountains at any time during the year.

Experience

  • Siemens Energy (Full-time · 6 yrs 2 mos)
    • Head of People Systems
      Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Strategic HR Project Manager
      May 2020 - Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      In the HR Product Lifecycle Management team we look after the entire HR operations portfolio and its IT foundation, developing a roadmap for a future HR IT landscape in Siemens Energy. After managing day1 readiness of Siemens Energy HR - we carved-out from Siemens AG January 2020 and got publicly listed - I am leading the transformation workstream in a senior project called "NEO" which strives at globally outsourcing HR core services incl. payroll, admin, helpdesk, travel & expense, and the whole tech stack to a network of partners. We analyze and harmonize our HR processes globally to enable efficient mapping to a HR technology stack based primarily on cloud standard solutions like Workday, Avature, Concur, Fieldglass, ServiceNow as well as some custom solutions, e.g. for compensation management.

  • Senior Expert People Analytics / Employee Surveys at Siemens
    Oct 2012 - Apr 2020 · 7 yrs 7 mos

    Together with a passionate global cross-functional team, I disruptively modernized Siemens' global employee survey approach and technology. We switched from a rather rigid and inflexible external employee survey platform to an internal approach enabling a culture change from a "reporting for managers" to "reports for the teams" approach. After an all-hands survey was run, every team member received a team report with full transparency - that triggered lots of constructive discussions within teams rather than managers potentially not even reading the survey result report at all. This was - at that time - a revolutionary approach and a milestone in how Human Resources was perceived in the company: modern & digital, useful & value-adding for the business.

  • BASF (8 yrs)
    • Senior Expert HR Governance
      Sep 2008 - Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      As the governance owner of the "European HR Process and IT Template", I have been overseeing HR process and HR data standards for entire Europe to ensure transition of local HR services into a European Shared Services model. Following the "freedom within a frame"principle, all deviations from the standards that were identified by the rollout teams needed to go through an evaluation and approval process to justify the legal or business need.

    • Expert People Development
      Oct 2004 - Aug 2008 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      I worked as a process analyst and solution architect of BASF's Learning Management System and helped to transform the inhouse learning management processes and teams into a shared services setup. The system served as the web-based learner front-end as well as the administrative backend for BASF global inhouse learning offering (and early e-learning at that time).