Workday Experts in Berlin

Assignment: Strategic consulting for managers

• Professional advice for managers in a defined business area on transformation and job grading topics
• Independent management of recruiting processes in close cooperation with the shared service organization to fill key vacancies
• Advising the HR team on finalizing and negotiating new works agreements and implementing sample guidelines (ERA Küste)
• Handling labor law matters such as consent replacement proceedings or disciplinary measures
• Advising on the standardization and improvement of HR processes

Tools: SuccessFactors, SAP/HR

• Operative end-to-end recruiting in a mid-sized company environment. Main focus on filling IT positions specializing in Data Integration (Junior – Team Lead).
• Stakeholder management, active sourcing.
• Ensuring an optimal candidate experience, conducting interviews.
• Key hires: Team Lead Data Integration, Backend Engineer.
• Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter, Personio, Slack

• Clients: Dover, Korn Ferry, Leoni, Lonza, Mars, Molnlycke, Novartis, RELX Group, Schaeffler, Softing AG, Takeda, Wipro
• Industries: Automotive, consulting, construction, engineering, IT, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals (including tariff-bound structures & regulated environments)
• Approx. 2 500–50 000 employees
• Advised HR Business Partners and leadership on operational HR topics, workforce planning and compliance matters
• Supported implementation and optimization of HR processes within industrial and tariff-bound environments
• Collaborated closely with works councils in Germany on hiring and structural topics
• Contributed to policy interpretation and application in line with labor law and internal governance
• Supported employee relations cases in cooperation with HR and legal teams
• Led and supported corporate change management initiatives within industrial and matrix organizations
• Supported corporate organizational restructuring and workforce adjustment measures in close collaboration with senior leadership and works councils
• Ensured process compliance within SAP HCM/SuccessFactors systems
• Delivered HR reporting and analytics to senior stakeholders
• Led high-volume recruitment initiatives across multiple regions
• Delivered end-to-end recruitment, ensuring efficiency, cost control and candidate experience
• Designed and implemented sourcing strategies to attract top talent globally
• Built and maintained high-caliber talent networks and proactively engaged passive candidates
• Evaluated and implemented data analytics tools for enhanced recruitment insights
• Contributed to internal talent development and shared recruitment best practices

• Creating reports, presentations, and management analyses in German and English
• Maintaining and analyzing CRM data (Leasing Business Program) as a basis for sales, reporting, and project control, including the use of AI-supported tools for analysis.
• Structuring contract and document management processes (including KYC/compliance) and ensuring reliable, on-time support for internal and international stakeholders.

Key achievements:

• Successfully implemented an HRIS system, streamlining document creation, HR administration, and payroll/performance data management, reducing processing time by 30% and improving data accuracy.
• Designed and rolled out a unified benefits system across multiple European locations, ensuring alignment with local regulations and company-wide policies, enhancing employee satisfaction and reducing administrative overhead.
• Leading the rollout and adoption of UKG HRIS across two countries, aligning payroll, admin, and performance data management.
• Overseeing HR operations for 160 employees across 3 EU locations within the DACH region.
• Leading a team of 5 specialists in Recruitment & HR Administration.
• Driving strategic initiatives to standardize and optimize internal HR policies across multiple European sites.
• Leading impactful HR initiatives to strengthen talent development, boost retention, and elevate employer brand presence.
• Providing expert guidance on ER cases and labor law compliance to mitigate risks and uphold workplace integrity.

Coral Club is an international health and wellness company that offers nutritional supplements and health-focused products.

• Attracted on a targeted project to audit, restructure, and legally proof HR operations for Germany during a critical corporate transition.
• Led organizational redesign during distribution centre relocation, including workforce planning, role design and organizational structure optimization.
• Conducted HR compliance audit and redesigned HR documentation and people processes in line with German labour law.
• Analysed employee engagement data and translated insights into practical organizational improvement initiatives.

• Led the redesign of an iOS and Android B2B SaaS solution.
• Developed the product vision and strategy and designed the platform architecture.
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams to create a user-centered, forward-looking product.
• Identified market trends and analyzed feedback from stakeholders and customers.
• Developed a well-thought-out feature set.
• Led the product design and development process.
• Created Balsamiq wireframes.
• Conducted comprehensive market and competitor analysis.
• Defined the product roadmap and feature scope, managed and prioritized the backlog.
• Crafted and wrote epics and user stories.
• Briefed UI designers and reviewed and approved Figma layouts.

• Served as a strategic advisor to internal stakeholders on recruitment-related topics
• Managed end-to-end recruitment processes, from sourcing to onboarding
• Developed and executed talent acquisition strategies to attract top talent
• Conducted active sourcing via various channels to build strong candidate pipelines
• Managed collaboration with external recruitment agencies
• Supported broader HR projects, including employer branding and process improvements
• Delivered recruitment training sessions for HR Business Partners and Hiring Managers
• Supervised and mentored a working student and an intern
• Supported process improvements in SAP SuccessFactors

• Built a successful sole proprietorship connecting German companies with specialized HR and recruiting freelancers and managed all business operations
• Established a network of over 1,000 freelancers and led a team of up to three independent contractors to ensure excellent results
• Developed and implemented tailored solutions to support companies in scaling their teams quickly and efficiently

• Coordinating global ISO 27001 certification from HR perspective: ensuring compliant security & data standards
• Global contract harmonisation: aligning on language, local law and company requirements
• Salary benchmarking & comp strategy advisory: salary band creation, advisory on bonus model, ensuring compliance for European Equal Pay Directive
• Figures comp software implementation

• Led change management initiatives to support large-scale business transformation programs enabled by digital technology.
• Provided career advice and coaching to 4 junior consultants, fostering professional growth.
• Built change and training strategies for standardization of HR processes supported by an HR Cloud platform, affecting 44k+ employees in 36 countries.
• Led implementation of training, using a train-the-trainer approach.
• Developed training approach and content for introduction of a talent marketplace to assist employees of a global company with their career progression, using an AI-based tool.

• Successfully led small to medium sales and software engineering teams of up to 25 employees
• Built, structured, and restructured teams into high-performing units
• Delivered trainings and on-the-job coaching at the highest level
• Focused on individual psychology, management development, new work, supervision, systemic coaching, and organizational development
• Applied leadership principles based on appreciation, trust, responsibility, and a "Let's Start Things" mentality
• Aimed to provide team members with clear direction and sense of purpose to create sustainable value for the organization

• HR project manager for the implementation of personnel strategy to achieve transformation and decarbonization goals in the course of coal phase-out
• Sparring partner for the Head of HR and local teams to establish harmonization in decentralized structures
• Responsible for due diligence, compliance and transition planning in collaboration with legal department and works councils
• Sparring partner for HRBPs and the payroll team to promote efficiency projects, empowerment and best practices
• Responsible for HR projects in organizational redesign, talent planning and HR controlling

• 2024–2025: Strategic Total Rewards project to launch a new corporate total rewards function, including organizational design, job architecture, job grading, salary range design, job benchmarks, design of total rewards key processes, implementation of SuccessFactors Compensation Module at Bauer Media Group, Hamburg

• 2023–2025: International job grading review (job grading with Hay, market benchmark, salary positioning analysis) for 5 000 employees and 750 jobs worldwide at KWS Berlin GmbH, Berlin

• 2023–2024: Job grading project within the context of implementing a new in-house collective agreement for 1 700 employees and 400 different jobs (job architecture, job grading with Hay, salary and cost analyses) at ASML Berlin GmbH, Berlin

• 2023: Realign annual objective setting and bonus (development of objective scorecard, design of variable remuneration, benchmark with external market, communication & change) at Klingele Papierwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Remshalden

• 2023: Compensation & benefits project to create a job map and salary system (including external benchmark) at Emnify GmbH, Berlin

• 2022: Strategic reward project to define a job architecture and benefit scheme at Comgy GmbH, Berlin

• 2022: HR set-up of OpenRad Germany (carve-out; former part of medneo Group), Berlin

• 2022: Creation of a job architecture (job description, job evaluation, job levels), implementation of a salary benchmark and definition of career paths at MCL IT GmbH, Böblingen

• 2022: Redesign of the compensation & benefits model (job grading, salary benchmark, benefit review) at kbrw SAS, Paris, France

• 2021–2022: Improvement of the people experience (including Workday improvements), the HR organization and HR processes at Mister Spex SE, Berlin

• 2021–2022: Interim Head of People Operations, Compensation & Benefits and HR IS at Mister Spex SE, Berlin

Permanent clients: TUCOWS Inc. (Toronto, Canada); bibliotheca Group (Cheadle, UK); QAD Europe Group (Warsaw, Poland); Epredia Group (Kalamazoo, Michigan, US); FIRST Event & Marketing Group (Dublin, Ireland)