Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Mr. Behrens is a dynamic and diversified engagement director with extensive experience delivering full-cycle HR/Payroll/Workforce Management implementations and project management on a global scale while achieving measurable outcomes and maximizing results. He has over 20 years experience delivering HR, Time Management and Payroll business solutions leveraging his extensive expertise and best practice knowledge with particular strength in HR Transformation and HR Process Engineering. He is proficient in establishing requirements and project plans while consistently providing project management and strong leadership. Mr. Behrens is adept at delivering instruction on project management and implementation methodology. His experience spans several industries including Chemicals, Pharma, Airlines, Utilities, Consumer Products, Consumer Durables and Oil & Gas. Mr. Behrens is also an experienced Delivery Lead / Program Manager for large implementation and application outsourcing projects including SAP HR, Payroll, Time Management, Learning, Staffing, SuccessFactors as well as non-SAP applications. He has successfully managed large teams during knowledge transfer planning and execution, development and maintenance of SAP HCM after system responsibility. Mr. Behrens brings deep expertise in HCM capability development for SAP Delivery Centers in Southeast Asia. Mr. Behrens is a SuccessFactors certified associate / SAP Qualtrics Research Core certified Key Values delivered: Leadership | Application Outsourcing & Offshoring | Organizational Management | Time Management | Payroll | Systems Design | Staffing & Recruiting | Stakeholder Engagement | Resource Allocation | HCM Consulting | HR Strategy | Strategic Alliances | Services Management | Organizational Restructuring | Change Management | Process Reengineering | Client Relationships | Communications | Governance | Project Management | Certified Project Manager | SAP HCM | Workforce Management | HR Transformation | Business Development | Solution Architect | Delivery Lead | SuccessFactors | Employee Central (certified)| SAP Qualtrics Research Core (certified) | Pre-sales | Employee Experience HXM | SAP SuccessFactors eXpert (SFX) accredited | Upgrade2Success | Professional Scrum Master | Workday
WorkForce Software is a global provider of workforce management solutions with integrated employee experience capabilities. Enterprise-grade and future-ready, WorkForce Software is helping some of the world’s most innovative organizations optimize their workforce, protect against compliance risks, and increase employee engagement to unlock new potential for resiliency and optimal performance. Over one thousand organizations with more than 4 million users in over 80 countries rely on WorkForce Software solutions to streamline compliance, reduce labor costs, provide more intuitive tools to their employees, and achieve strategic HR on a global basis. As Competency Center Leader with senior domain knowledge, Mr. Behrens is responsible for quality delivery and execution of the Time & Attendance competency, drives continuous improvement of standards and practices, and develops Time & Attendance / ACT competency and talent aligned with that skill. In this role, Mr. Behrens is responsible for global delivery performance of the competency, support sales of services, quality delivery across teams, hiring, talent growth, and best practices development. He also establishes processes and promotes the utilization of tools to ensure efficient delivery of projects, ensures alignment of the goals for the competency to overall Services goals and delivery framework including delivery, competency growth alignment, and demand & capacity management. Mr. Behrens is also responsible for meeting financial business objectives and for achieving the defined financial goals, team development, establishing a culture of innovation, confidence and trust, and performance management.
Focus on building global, market-leading transformative SAP Offerings around Human Capital Management and Contingent Workforce Management business processes, SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, and next-gen SAP technologies to include relevant new technologies (i.e. SCP, IOT, ML, AR etc.) in offerings as appropriate. Responsible for development of new offerings that are market relevant, easy to sell and memorable by working with Industry Offering Leaders. Manage relevant business partners, alliances, and SAP to co-develop differentiating solutions globally. Responsible for HCM pre-sales in North America.
Provide global implementation solutions focused on SAP HCM, SuccessFactors, and Fieldglass technology and innovation Manage portfolio of several global SuccessFactors implementations with a focus on strategy through execution
Global Technology Practice Leader for Accenture’s SAP Fieldglass practice: Manages global technology practice reporting directly to Accenture’s Global Cloud leadership. Supports sales target and manages sales pipeline for the Fieldglass practice. Responsible for ongoing relationship building with SAP Fieldglass: works closely with alliance. manager at SAP Fieldglass to define and maintain the relationship between the two companies. Defines engagement model for projects where Accenture and Fieldglass deliver services jointly. Serves as an escalation point for issues that arise on Fieldglass implementations. Determines approach for capability development of the Fieldglass practice. Serves as a subject matter expert on Fieldglass and Contingent Workforce Management to project teams, client account teams and clients.
As an Employee Central-certified SuccessFactor consultant served in several roles on SAP SuccessFactors engagements: HCM Solution Architect responsible for fit/gap assessment and implementation recommendation of Employee Central Time Off and Timesheet for a global Financial Services client Global Data Migration Lead responsible for the successful conversion of global employee data into Employee Central for a food industry client Global Integration Lead responsible for the design through deployment of over 90 interfaces inbound and outbound of SuccessFactors Employee Central for a global Life Sciences client Regional Lead responsible for the deployment of SuccessFactors Employee Central module for a Life Sciences/Pharma client Program Manager with accountability for driving the implementation of SuccessFactors LMS for the US and the analysis of SAP Payroll for Chile and Peru operations of a global mining client As SAP HR Payroll Delivery Lead delivered multiple SAP HR/Payroll implementations for a global client in the automotive industry along with technical and consulting services for SAP SuccessFactors - End-to-end recruiting process: requisition approval, posting on internal and external career sites, candidate pre-selection with questionnaires, interview and selection process, offer letters, reporting and a new hire interface to SAP HCM
International full-life-cycle project and program management experience and deep expertise in SAP HCM/SuccessFactors Solution Architect with primary accountability for developing solution plans for large HCM implementations, including HR strategy, solution, scope, estimates, contingency, costs, schedule, delivery model, resource plan, assumptions and risks, in accordance with Accenture Delivery Methods for SAP Strong skills in core SAP HCM including Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Time Management, and Payroll Successfully managed large project teams through full life cycle project implementations Proven strengths in the areas of HR transformation, process reengineering, best practices and strategy Strong experience in Application Outsourcing and Offshoring: Lead multi-year application outsourcing project including SAP HR, Payroll, Time Management, Learning, Staffing, ESS/MSS/Portal. Responsible for project staffing, knowledge transfer planning and execution, development and maintenance of SAP HCM SAP HCM Capability Lead responsible for developing new Accenture HCM service offering in the Philippine Delivery Center in Manila Deep experience in people management and development in various roles: external recruiting, internal staffing, staff evaluations, career counseling, direct supervisory functions, management of local ERGs