HR Director / Senior HR Business Partner

Internationally experienced HR Director with over 14 years of experience in multinational organizations across industrial, financial, and manufacturing environments. Extensive expertise in global HR project management, executive-level recruiting, and organizational transformation. Proven track record in talent acquisition, employee retention, and leadership development within complex matrix organizations. Highly experienced in collaboration with works councils, international stakeholders, and senior leadership. Strategic mindset, strong intercultural competence, and advanced coaching and leadership development capabilities.

Managed global HR programs for an international organization with approximately 27,000 employees across multiple countries, including advisory to senior leadership and plant management. Full responsibility for HR strategy, organizational development, and recruiting for a European organization with around 1,400 employees and leadership of a large HR team including budget ownership. Recruited and developed more than 700 professionals and executives internationally and implemented talent and succession programs. Negotiated with employee representatives across multiple European countries and supported labor-law-related organizational changes. Introduced new organizational structures, leadership programs, and change initiatives to improve retention and performance.