Flora Cousso Email & Phone Number

Porto, PT

Porto, Portugal

Porto, Portugal

• Leads the HR Business Partners and the Administrative Team (total of 9 reports);
• Defines and implements HR Business Strategy and Workforce Planning (total of ~800 employees);
• Defines and implements all HR Development processes and policies: Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Learning and Development, Talent Reviews, Succession Planning, International Mobility, etc;
• Defines and manages all Compensation & Benefits policies
• Leads People Engagement and Satisfaction Initiatives;
• Represents Sogrape externally and develops strong relationships with different stakeholders

Vila Nova De Gaia

Houston, Texas Area

• Support Ted Bauer Leadership Certificate Program (TBLCP) Manager and Instructors including recruit and select program participants, assess qualifications, schedule interviews, and present lectures
• Coordinate mentoring program which includes training and coaching mentors, assessing program efficiencies and measuring mentor successes

New York City

• Supported Ted Bauer Leadership Certificate Program (TBLCP) Manager and Instructors including recruit and select program participants and present leadership lectures
• Coordinated the Ted Bauer Leadership mentoring program

New York City

Pro-bono Translator of micro-finance documents from English to Portuguese targeted for African markets.

• RESPONSIBILITIES
• Reported to the Head of HR. Primary HR contact to the Production and Quality Departments, for a total of 14 managers and 116 engineers, providing expert guidance and coaching in all human resources areas, including HR.
• 95% management satisfaction in coaching activities;
• 60% engineer headcount increase ( a new R&D group established) in 2007 and 2008;
• 5% engineers turnover decreased due to a retention program implementation;
• 100% Balanced Scorecard (BS) KPI Training Plan Fulfilment (employees with more than 40 hours of Training);

• (Simultaneously held various positions including HR Business Partner and Recruitment & Selection Manager)RESPONSIBILITIES
• Reported to the Head of HR. Coordinated the Technical Ladder Program (for engineering career paths): Participated in the Qimonda worldwide community to identify, on an annual basis, the critical fields of knowledge for.
• Managed the overseas Mentoring Program: communicate the program, established the mentoring pairs, trained and rewarded mentors, monitored and measured the program.ACHIEVEMENTS
• Certified 10 mentors according to the Mentoring Training Program;
• Coordinated 23 international mentoring pairs (mentees paired with overseas mentors);
• 97% satisfaction on the Mentoring Program (feedback from mentors, mentees and managers);

• RESPONSIBILITIES
• Reported to the Head of HR. Aligned the R&S policies and practices among all HR Business Partners (5 HR BP in total);
• Managed all R&S KPI’s according to Balanced Scorecard: Time to Recruit; Time to Fill; ROI per Recruitment Media;
• Negotiated, selected and managed all contracts of our R&S service providers;
• Defined and implemented R&S Marketing Plan and represented Qimonda at career events (job fairs, University presentations, on-site events at Qimonda, etc.);
• Coordinated Qimonda’s Academy Partnership Program and New Hire Orientation Program.ACHIEVEMENTS

• RESPONSABILITIES
• Reported to the HR Europe Regional Manager. Supported the coordination of all HR Programs and Processes at InfineonTechnologies’ European sites, namely: UK, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Israel and Austria.
• Liaison between HR EU Region Manager, HR Site Managers and HR Munich headquarters.ACHIEVEMENTS
• Organized 2 HR Europe Region Workshops (Oporto, Portugal and Saint- Denis, France);
• Set up HR Europe Q-Share (an IT solution to share documents, ideas, etc);
• Supported the alignment of the International Assignments Policy and the Recruitment & Selection Process among sites.

• Reported to the Head of HR. Collaborated with hiring managers according to staffing needs: responsible for sourcing, screening, interviewing and selecting candidates;
• Managed university recruitment programs, including job fairs and speaking engagements;
• Participated in creating the new Performance Appraisal System and Employee Barometer Survey.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), 3.9

Activities and Societies: MBA Bauer Society; MBA Women International

Pos- Graduation, Management - Marketing Concentration

Master'S Degree, Social & Organizational Psychology

Activities and Societies: Member of Circuito Interno Televisão (CITV) - TV internal circuit Member of Photography Group Member of Students.