Global HR Business Partner at E3G Third Generation Environmentalism (2023-08 – Present)
Working in a mid-sized climate change organization leading the compensation & benefits framework across Europe, Asia and South America. Provide strategic partnership to senior stakeholders aiming to improve employee relations, build morale, and increase productivity, engagement, and retention.
- Design and implementation of the Reward, Progression and Recognition framework to maintain E3G's competitive position in the market, ensuring equitable compensation practices across locations (EMEA, APAC), including designing policy and processes, conducting internal and external benchmarking, ensuring compliance, delivering management training, and leading the bi-annual progression cycle in collaboration with the Senior Talent Committee. Internal survey has shown a 60% increase in employee satisfaction in a two-year period.
- Regular evaluation of compensation structure according to market variation and cost of living indexation. Review of compensation incentives for Senior Management Team to offer alignment between delivered results and reward according to position level.
- Lead the implementation of the yearly Goals & Appraisal Review, including full deployment of the Leapsome platform. Responsible for designing workflows, delivering organization-wide training, managing the four appraisal cycles, and ensuring up-to-date information for employee progression and recognition.
- Led the implementation and transition to an Employer of Record (EOR) model, creation of policy, overseeing the hiring of the international hub across multiple countries (Canada, Chile, Finland, India, Indonesia, Japan, Portugal, Singapore and South Africa). Manages the relationship with international team, compensation structure, budget, payroll and other topics related to EOR.
- Headed the implementation of the flexible working program, design policy and process, enabling employees to opt for a stronger work life balanced model.
- Advise senior management within a variety of complex employee relation cases around cross-border work, mobility, international hiring, performance, conflict, etc. advising managers on best practices, legal compliance, local law and leading settlement negotiations.
Senior HR Business Partner DACH at CreativeDock – Berlin (acquired FoundersLane) (2022-09 – 2023-07)
Provided support with the Merger and Acquisition process, including due diligence and integration of sorted HR related topics.
- Partnership with C-Level to manage the integration of Founderslane team members and HR processes during the merging and acquisition period.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day HR management, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. In addition, create and review HR policies, processes, and management support for a number of our markets in EMEA on all HR operational elements.
- Facilitate the performance management process, and ongoing check-ins. Help to implement learning and development offerings within the teams.
- Support for all employees of my business unit within the entire employee life cycle, i.e. from contracting to on-boarding until off-boarding.
Head of People and Culture at Founderslane (2021-11 – 2023-07)
Reporting directly to the CEO, I led a team of five HR professionals and drove the people strategy during a period of rapid international growth and organisational transformation. My focus was on scaling the business through strategic workforce planning, talent optimisation, operational excellence, and the development of a high-performance culture across Europe and the MENA region.
- Partnered with the CEO, C-level leadership, and senior stakeholders to align the people strategy with business growth objectives, defining workforce priorities and organisational capability needs.
- Led strategic workforce planning and talent acquisition initiatives to support rapid scaling across multiple jurisdictions, strengthening employer branding, onboarding, and retention while ensuring compliance with local employment regulations.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to implement organisational changes, optimise people processes, and introduce new HR systems, tools, and learning initiatives to improve operational efficiency and employee experience.
- Designed and implemented cross-cultural engagement initiatives across Europe and MENA to foster collaboration, inclusion, and high performance within a fast-growing international workforce.
- Led the full implementation of the annual Goals & Performance Review cycle, including the deployment of the Bonrepublic platform. Oversaw process design, organisation-wide training, calibration, and integration of reward and progression frameworks linked to performance indicators and business objectives.
- Built and developed the Culture & Talent function, establishing team KPIs, improving delivery standards, and creating development opportunities to strengthen capability and long-term succession planning.
- Oversaw payroll operations and HR infrastructure implementation across Austria, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Bulgaria, ensuring compliance, governance, and scalable people operations across all locations.
- Led the people workstream during the acquisition of FoundersLane by Creative Dock, supporting workforce integration, change management, and organisational alignment.
- Delivered 100% workforce growth within one year across DACH and MENA regions, while increasing employee retention rates by 50% through targeted engagement and talent strategies.
Senior Human Resources Specialist at GEA Group (2020-07 – 2021-10)
Human Resources Specialist at Downer (2019-03 – 2019-09)
Senior Human Resources Analyst at Certisign (2013-09 – 2016-08)
