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Brussels, Be

Brussels Area, Belgium

HR, Labour relations and Business transformation consultancy. Pelao develops with you sustainable solutions to improve collective intelligence and social dialogue, and to deeply embed solutions in leadership and management practices.

Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

Mediator certified by the Belgian Federal Mediation Commission, enabling individuals and organizations to restore relations and find sustainable solutions to disputes

Brussels Region, Belgium

HR Rail is the employer of the 30.000+ employees of the Belgian railways. HR Rail offers its partners SNCB and Infrabel comprehensive HR services that anticipate and meet their specific needs. By ensuring that the railway companies have competent and committed employees, HR Rail brings a proactive and responsible contribution to the development of rail services and to sustainable mobility.

Louvain-La-Neuve, Région Wallonne, Belgique

Heading the advanced Labour Relation management program, helping HR professionals and business leaders at improving social relations through adequate team management, deep understanding of the rules of the game and collaboration.

Charleroi Area, Belgium

During this short term assignment in a CHRO position, led the Company’s transformation process from consultation to the implementation of a new flexible and versatile organization, including collective dismissal, organisation re-design, extensive people selection and mobility exercise, and complete reskilling of the whole store personnel.

Liège Area, Belgium

Established, during this short term mission, the three year HR long range plan as to increase management's accountability for human matters and to foster a collaborative approach of talent management and performance management, and initiated associated actions accordingly.

Brussels

Helped companies in leading transformation programs, designing and implementing sustainable labour relations strategies, providing support to Information, Consultation and Negotiation processes, defining and implementing change management programmes. AGILEmaker, made of a team of driven executives, supports companies in developing and implementing programmes designed at re-igniting performance and increase agility through cooperation, collective intelligence, autonomy, meaningfulness and engagement. - Cooperation: new ways of working, participative governance, effective social dialogue, HR strategy, stakeholder management, organisation effectiveness - Innovation: culture change, innovation strategy and process design, agile project management. - Business transformation: change strategy, organisation design, programme management, etc

Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Led the HR Business Partner function for the commercial business units and the central commercial team. Led the Labour Relation function for the whole company. Direct leadership of the HR function in Great Britain during one year.Commercial people strategy, including Strategic Workforce Planning correlating business results to HR indicators, international Talent Management, Organisation Design, Organization Development and Effectiveness, Engagement. Labour relations: strategy definition, management of the European Works Council, international transformation projects.Key achievements:- Re-defined the commercial operating model and practices, as to empower teams to innovate and to unlock creativity in order to generate customer value, building on the Company’s key competitive advantages.- Established and deployed a commercial capability building acceleration plan, including an original commercial learning and development curriculum, innovative commercial leadership development programmes, and a redesigned commercial workforce planning strategy. Success of this strategy has been recognized by the Company's customers through strongly correlated Advantage Group survey results.- Led the commercial integration work stream in the framework of the merger of Coca-Cola Enterprises withCoca-Cola Iberian Partners and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke, establishing a customer-back based central commercial organisation rebalancing local and central accountabilities through new ways of working. - Led the consultation and negotiation processes related to the creation of a Finance shared service centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, without business disruption.

Brussels / Rotterdam

Strategic Workforce Planning, Talent Management, Organisation Design, Labour Relations, Engagement.Completed large restructuring projects, including centralization of functions, outsourcing and delocalization, coupled with collective dismissals, and transformation management programmes.Key achievements:- Simplified the labour relation structures in Belgium, reducing the number of work councils from 7 to 1, thereby step-changing the quality of the social dialogue and the speed of consultation processes.- Designed and implemented, in Belgium, the first negotiated performance based salary scheme to replace age-based pay schemes for bargained employees.- Developed and deployed a sustainable employability programme allowing employees to drive their own employability throughout their career with CCE, offering development opportunities from the first to the last day of their tenure, contributing to engagement scores of 91% in The Netherlands and 84% in Belgium.

Brussels / Rotterdam

Provision of legal services to all departments. Distribution agreements and M&A activities.Business-oriented Competition law support, coordination of European competition law practices. Legal support to important national and transnational restructuring projects (centralization of functions, outsourcing and delocalization), including collective procedures and negotiations with unions.Leadership of CCE Benelux’ Incident Management Team, in charge of coordinating the different functions in case of actual or threatening incident or crisis (quality incidents, product recalls, social unrest, business disruption,…)Key achievements:- Successfully developed and deployed commercial toolboxes to drive sustainable revenue growth in compliance with competition law requirements .- Led European Competition law and Sales & marketing workgroups, defining pan-European solutions to common commercial challenges (toolboxes, guidance and solutions to commercial issues with global customers).- Negotiated the inclusion, in CCE’s product portfolio, of non Coca-Cola brands (e.g Schweppes, Capri-Sun…) either through franchise or distribution agreements, and managed the implementation of such agreements with the brand owners. - Commercial assignment: coordinated different local account management teams in relation to the succesful geographical expansion of a global retailer’s activities, without generating any value loss for customers.

Rotterdam

Supervision of the provision of legal services to all departments. Distribution agreements.Business-oriented competition law support. Key achievements:-Implemented the 2005 Undertakings towards the European Commission (including agreed commercial practices).- Established legally compliant solutions to successfully leverage the changes in packaging legislation and the correlative liberalization of the use of one way bottles in the Dutch market, thereby re-igniting growth in the non alcoholic ready-to-drink beverage category. - In the same context, designed and implemented a new bottle recycling system, afterwards adopted by the whole Dutch ready-to-drink beverage industry.

Brussels

Business-oriented legal support to the Sales and Marketing teams.Mergers & Acquisitions: Corporate, Competition and Employment law aspects. Support to major industrial and real estate projects. Key achievements:- M&A Assignment: successfully led the acquisition and the integration of the Chaudfontaine water business.- Implemented the 2005 Undertakings towards the European Commission (including agreed commercial practices).- Aligned competition law guidance and practices across the different countries, unlocking new opportunities to create customer value.

Namur

Human Resources lead of the Daily Press (L’Avenir) and Radio (Nostalgie) business units: Business Transformation, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Management, Labour Relations, Employee Relations, Organisation Design.Coordination and negotiation of Mergers & Acquisitions / Joint Ventures, including sophisticated legal / financial constructions with complex shareholder agreements. Supervision of litigation cases. Day-to-day legal support to the different business units (commercial agreements, Corporate and Employment law).Key achievements:- Successfully led M&A and integration operations to create and develop the ‘Passe-Partout’ free press group in partnership with Vivendi.- In close cooperation with the Board of Directors, managed and settled strategic litigation between shareholders related to the control of media groups.- Set up the Human Resources function, expanding HR activities from payroll and administration to Talent Acquisition and Management, Labour Relations, Compensation and Benefits, Workforce Planning, Employee Relations and Change Management.

Brussels

Litigation: Commercial Contracts, Corporate law and industrial liability, torts and personal damages.Commercial agreements.Employment lawKey achievements:- Built at pace own customer portfolio, representing 50% of the personally generated revenue after 18 months. - Created a personal damage practice in the firm.

Advanced Executive Hr

Civil, Commercial And Labour Mediation

Master’S Degree, Law

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