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Primary specialism: HR Business Partner

Markets with deep expertise: UK, Switzerland, Singapore

Languages : English mother tongue, French advanced conversational, Italian conversational, German basic

Salary expectations: Depending on country - UK - £150K, CH - 250K CHF, Euro TBC

Workforce types directly supported: C-suite leaders, business leaders in region. Supported R&D and Commercial (Sales and Marketing) workforces

Current home country: Switzerland

Mobility: good flexibility across Europe

Mobility Considerations: Have a Swiss residency B permit, UK passport

Team management: I have lead teams of a maximum of 150 HR professionals (broken down to 50 x HR Business Partners, 75 x HR Operations employees and 25 x COEs) in region, and smallest led was team of senior Global HR Business Partners in Corporate HQ who support C-Suite team

Current/recent employer: multinational with $10+bn revenues, and 25,000+ employees in 90 countries. Also worked for Pfizer (at a time when there were 120K employees globally with revenues of $48.3b)

Remits of particular interest: CHRO in smaller organisation (start up or young organisation setting up HR function), or HR Business Partner member of HR Leadership Team in medium size organisation with either region or product line responsibility (Commercial/R&D). Attracted to Life Sciences organisations or start up/IPO with growth mindset

Unique expertise: Ability to move between strategy and operations with clients and teams to deliver. Direct experience of working across Asia Pacific as well as UK/Switzerland. I'm change agile, have an exploratory mindset and will experiment to fail fast. I have experience of M&A, large scale restructuring (redundancies, outsourcing etc), as well as growing businesses, (org design, team set up, new leader assimilation). My experience means that I very quickly see the gaps which will hinder success and how they need to be addressed.

Commerciality: Whilst Head HR APAC, salary budgeting was not being tightly managed and so governance was put into place. As I moved back into Corporate HQ, I realised this was a global issue and provided data and analysis for the global HRLT, and CHRO which resulted in much more stringent approach saving $1.3m over six months, with a further forecast saving of $2.5m for the following year. The raising of this with the business (via CHRO), resulted in greater awareness and management by the business of their salary budgets, and subsequent reporting in partnership with Finance enabled visibility and choiceful management of salary awards through the year

Strengths: I am an intuitive and insightful partner and coach to clients, peers and teams, and someone who will be persistent and determined and get the tough stuff done. I consider myself a business person with HR expertise, and so contribute from a business perspective with the aim of market and revenue growth. I'm insightful and perceptive and a good identifier of talent, I'm known as an innovative problem solver with strong interpersonal and inter-cultural skills and am curious, collaborative and want to bring out the best in people and organizations.

Need to know: I'm passionate and have high demands about HR and it's purpose, requiring that it adds business value (versus process management ) and earns respect. I believe growing and nurturing talent is an essential part of every role. I have excellent judgement on people, and will challenge and coach to push leaders to "show up" as their best self and don't accept mediocrity.

For more details on this professional and how they might help with your business challenges, please make direct contact with us today and reference P005164