Engaging and driving a global team that provides people-first support, services and solutions across the areas of shared services, technology, operational excellence and talent acquisition. Enabling Jazz business success through seamless support of the entire employee life-cycle.

Create strategy and drive implementation of optimal processes, technology, structure and service to enable an exceptional employee experience. Lead a high-performing global team driven towards operational excellence aligned with Jazz culture and values. Achieve innovate and scalable technology and operational solutions to support company growth. Drive a mindset of continuous improvement and measurable progress, allowing agility to adapt, but also maintain a high level of customer satisfaction during consistent change. Build connections and a sense of community across the HR function, enabling a collaborative unified HR environment. Lead change through the function to embed and evolve the HR operating model to unlock and develop new HR capabilities supported by a stable and reliable core HR engine. Shift HR to a flow-to-work model, getting the right people on the right work when it matters most.

Partner directly with CFO, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and CHRO as strategic HRBP to maximize organizational performance, cultivate Jazz's mission and culture and deliver an optimal and inclusive employee experience. Translate business strategy and organizational needs into solutions including workforce planning, organizational design and development, talent management and change leadership. Take systemic and data driven approach to shape and influence strategies and solve emerging challenges. Bring innovative thought as a proactive and credible partner and advisor to senior leadership.

Establishes and delivers upon Jazz’s near-term and long term organizational development capability. Delivers expertise to a variety of projects including organization assessment, organization design, change and transition management, and capability transformation across a diverse set of functions aligned with the overarching corporate strategy. Effectively adapts consulting style and approach to the needs of each project. Shares mindset, skills and tools with HR and senior leadership to ensure sustainment of results. Works closely with the HR business partner team to develop and sustain organizational development capabilities as well as partner on enterprise-wide projects.

Contributes to the achievement of business results by effectively partnering with EU/ROW executives and members of the HR team in creating, implementing and driving strategic, organization wide initiatives while at the same time leading the HR EU/ROW in delivering on the day to day aspects of the HR support to the business. Builds strong partnerships across all functions, effectively leading and leveraging existing knowledge and expertise to broker and deliver HR solutions to the business. Drives a culture where Jazz’s mission, values and strategies, as well as focus on high performance, help sustain a long term competitive advantage.

Partnered with senior leadership in Europe commercial markets for Neurology, Global Medical Affairs for Neurology and a cross-functional team dedicated to a strategic mission for Parkinson's Disease. Worked towards defining new go-to-market models responding to changes in the external environment and how that translated to organizational capability needs. Acted as consultant to the senior levels of the business in the areas of high-performing leadership teams, talent development, change management, culture, diversity, engagement, strategic capabilities and organizational design.

Added value to our UCB Global Pharma Research organization by being a strategic talent partner for the leadership team (Global Exploratory Development, Non-Clinical Development, Early Pipeline Development and New Patient Solutions). Worked on organization design & capabilities, strategic workforce planning, change management, talent development strategies, leadership development, advanced people analytics, culture and diversity.

Worked on visionary projects for HR transformation. Strong focus on intuitive, user-friendly technology solutions that enable fast, easy connectivity and mobile access from anywhere on the globe. Managed the building of interactive knowledge platforms to enhance sharing of HR related knowlege and information across the company. Created HR tools people want to use, not have to use. Drove the creation of a People Analytics function in the HR organization by assessing how to bring together diverse data sources to analyze and gain insight into UCB's most strategic people challenges. Effective partnering with global RPO provider to provide a successful, cost-effective recruitment solution to the UCB business. Coached, developed and engaged an international team of motivated HR project leaders. Built and implemented an internal marketing strategy to make new HR initiatives well-known and accepted within the organization.

Implemented a global training governance model and regulation-driven training plans for all employees. Increased training compliance to 94% for global organization. Manage virtual team of 10 business training representatives to engage and centralize the efforts of 120 people in the internal training network. Work to ensure alignment of business competency needs with training offerings. Partnered with finance to define smarter and more efficient management of global training budgets and to provide higher quality training offerings for less. Implemented global on-boarding framework. Redesigned and improved global processes and concepts related to Talent Development. Implemented SAP Talent Assessment and Performance Management modules to support new business processes. Designed and planned the implementation of an HR competency model to aid in the development of the global HR team for the future.

Lead SAP HCM implementation project and global transition from PeopleSoft as business owner and program manager. Worked daily on change management activities and project communications. Managed daily conflict resolution and problem management to achieve project deliverables in a very short period of time. Achieved success in implementation of Personnel Administration, Organization Management, Talent Development and Compensation modules including a Self Service portal for Employees and Managers. Supervised the offshoring of HR transactional activities to Bangalore. Managed annual compensation review process including training, communications, timelines, and global reporting to ensure 8500 people were evaluated and rewarded salary increases, bonuses and long-term incentives. Responsible for the coordination of upgrades, training and contract management of Taleo Recruitment system. Managed the development of direct reports in the areas of HR systems and Business Process Offshoring (BPO).

Received certification as Crosby Quality Instructor. Delivered global training program to 220 IT employees on quality process improvement. Headed up or facilitated corrective action teams to address ongoing IT issues affecting productivity or customer satisfaction. Developed and delivered communication framework for IT including intranet site for customers, intranet for IT professionals, standard newsflash templates, lunch and learn programs, and management communications. Developed and rolled out the IT Roadshow Initiative to market new IT tools and services to the major UCB sites. Supported SAP4UCB team with preparation and distribution of monthly project updates and newsletters. Introduced Meeting Effectiveness program with overview on improving meeting productivity and outcomes.

Delivered first global HR system for UCB. Orchestrated global rollout of PeopleSoft for all UCB sites and affiliates, driving a massive transition from multiple local systems in 46 countries to one global platform. Provided all training, communication and change management for PeopleSoft to all HR. Delivered global management training for performance and compensation reviews for all UCB affiliates. Produced first automated UCB global HR reports (e.g. headcount, turnover, etc.) Participated in data acquisition, analysis and distribution for several M&A projects. Liaised with IT teams on integration of new technologies in HR as well as the initial interface of HR data into other company applications and creation of Corporate Accounts. Drove the initial launch of global organization charts online through UCB People making it the most widely used online application in the company.

Responsible for US pilot rollout of PeopleSoft HRMS system. Partnered with the Corporate Compensation & Benefits team on the development of a global online salary review process and drove the initial implementation across North America. Designed and delivered new online processes and workflows for all US HR transactions to eliminate paper administration and processing time. Developed and documented all US HR policies and procedures. Designed and launched the first US HR intranet site.

Handled job evaluations for internal grading system. Participated in external salary surveys and market analysis. Benchmarked jobs against the market. Developed sales incentive programs. Managed day-to-day benefits administration including healthcare, dental, life, AD&D, 401k, stock options and disability. Participated in US implementation of Cyborg HRIS system.