Flexmanager - Senior HR Business Partner

Senior HR Business Partner

Work Experience

4 May 09 – 30 Jun 10
Regional HR Director at PGI Nonwovens BV, responsible for
providing direction and support to management
in all aspects of HR within the European region.
Scope:
- organizational development
- leadership development
- employee retention and recruitment
- employee relations, collective bargaining and contract negotiations
- benefits administration
- compliance with applicable laws and regulations

Member of the European Management Team and the Global HR Council.

1 Oct. 02- 24 Apr 09
Sr HR Manager at ITS EMEA, shared services IT organization
within Johnson & Johnson,
responsible for:
- start up of HR department
- specific HR related matters for all 317 ITS employees in EMEA such as internal & external benchmark, people development, organizational realignment (in this case I work closely together with the local HR Manager of each country
- redesign of the new organization & implementation of it
- designing & implementing Change Management projects
- follow up of Talent Management
- Individual and team coaching
- Implementing work-life balance project
- Implementing European compensation & benefits cycle
- setting up hosting companies in the new countries with ITS associates
- bringing in new IT employees in the organization from the different Operating Companies
This job is on a European level and requires travel. Member of the
Core Leadership Team.

1 Mar 01 – 30 Sep 02
Senior H.R. Consultant for GRH Management.
Working on different projects:
Tessenderlo : ad interim replacement of the recruiting manager
KPN Belgium : writing procedures for the HR department (hiring &
firing procedure, training procedure, evaluation procedure)
Bosch : coaching project, i.e. organising a 360° feedback session for a manager and make a proposal for development
Microsoft: project manager for a huge recruitment campaign and local HR Manager ad interim for 4 months
Carrefour : recruitment of high profiles and high potentials &
implementing procedures for future recruitment actions (October 2001).
Johnson & Johnson : ad Interim HR Manager for the Networking and Computing Services Group (started Nov. 2001).

1999 – Feb. ‘01 Human Resources Manager
IKEA Belgium NV – Ternat
- Responsible for operational and strategic HR Management
- Combining strategy development and hands-on problem solving.
- To give advise and support in training and HR management
- counsel managers and employees in domains such as manpower, career and training planning
- Writing a yearly business plan and responsibility of the HR budget
- Member of management team
- Responsible for 270 employees, supported by 2 assistants

1997 – 1999 Human Resources Coordinator
Xircom Europe NV – Kontich
- help implementing start up of HR department
- lots of project based responsibilities such as training and development, HR policies & procedures
- trained to become an internal auditor

1996 – 1997 Human Resources Coordinator
Anhyp NV – Berchem
- coordinating role, making sure that all HR managers were in line
- link between staff and senior management
- introduced High Potential Program

1990 – 1996 Human Resources Coordinator
3M Belgium NV – Zwijndrecht (1990-1992)
3M Europe NV – Diegem (1993-1996)
- grew from operational HR role into a coordination role
- helped develope new processes
- advise HR coordination center on country-specific needs
- introduce new HR tool (together with IT)

1986 – 1990 Working as a temporary for different temping agencies. As a temp I
worked for a lot of different companies in a lot of different functions.

Education

Education

Vlerick Middle Management Consortium (2008 - 2009)
B1 Psychology - Antwerp (1997-1999)
Postgraduate Human Resources Management - Antwerp (1996-1997)
A1 Tourism - Coloma-Instituut Mechelen (1984-1986)
Translator - HIVT Antwerp (1982-1984)
Latin-Greek (high school) - Sint-Niklaas (1976-1982)

Additional training sessions and courses
- MBTI certified – MTRi - Enneagram
- Communication skills – Interview techniques –Influencing skills
- Solutions Focused Coaching
- Intercultural Management
- The 6 thinking hats
- CTT Certified (Values)

Skills

Good influencing skills and communication skills
Quick and good insight in organization structures
Very good in translating strategy into a workable and understandable model
Helicopter view
Energetic, creative, flexible and positive
Able to deal with different types of people

Languages

Fluent in Dutch, French and English
Good passive understanding of German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

Other

Looking for an HR business partner position with a major focus on strategic business partnering, change management, conflict handling, reorganization, crisis management, coaching and people development.