Key Responsibilities- Strategic HR Management: Develops and implements HR strategies aligned with the company’s business objectives.- Talent Acquisition: Leads recruitment efforts to attract, hire, and retain top talent.- Employee Relations: Fosters a positive work environment and manages employee relations issues.- Performance Management: Oversees the performance appraisal process and supports management in employee development.- Compliance: Ensures all HR practices; complies with local labor laws and company policies.- Training & Development: Identifies training needs and coordinates professional development programs.- Compensation & Benefits: Manages employee compensation and benefits programs to ensure competitive and fair remuneration.

The Role Develops corporate plans for a variety of HR matters such as compensation, benefits, Health and Safety Supports the human capital in the company by devising strategies for performance evaluation, staffing, training and development Oversees all HR initiatives, systems and policies Supervises the work of HR personnel and provides guidance Serves as point of contact for employment relations and negotiates with labor union Monitors adherence to internal policies and legal standards Deals with grievances and violations invoking disciplinary action when required Anticipates and resolves litigation risks Reports to senior management by analyzing data and using HR metrics Safeguards the HR audit process by providing legislative compliance with organizational Health & Safety and workplace best practices

* Restructured the full range of staff recruitment and selection processes including advice and support to line management, drafting and placing advertisements, forming structured interview questions, coordinating candidate information and interviews, preparing selection reports, conducting reference checks and constructing offers of employment.* Contributed to the development, implementation and monitoring of internal policies and guidelines which provide an effective, consistent and timely delivery of HR services.* Safeguarded the HR audit process and ensured legislative compliance in relation with organizational Health & Safety and workplace best practices.*Assisted line managers in the development of position descriptions and ensured appropriate review and update.* Led the application of the performance appraisals system and provided ongoing support to line management and staff.

• Provided optimal service delivery of engagement, talent management, learning & development programs. • Led staff of 10 direct reports, in charge of staffing, training, disciplinary control, payroll accounting, Human Resources policy writing, employee survey conducting and work flow monitoring processes.• Coached managers on staffing issues, performance management and compliance with labour law. • Designed and implemented talent management strategy by analyzing and interpreting workforce information, reviewing results of employee surveys and addressing them with BOD. Achievements• Right-sized 24 beauty & diet stores (over 1,000 employees), resulting in 30% decrease of labour costs. • Re-engineered the employee productivity (bonus) scheme, resulting in 40% increase of sales.• Contributed significantly to the growth of Group’s brand name, thus it became an Employer of Choice, ranking first among the Beauty & Diet businesses in Greece.

• Led staff of 12 dir. reports in HC Department. Also responsible for Health, Safety & Emergency Planning. • Cultivated an organizational culture of trust, transparency, engagement and community by establishing a “one firm” approach.• Designed key HC development programs, geared to identifying, inspiring and preparing bench candidates to strengthen the leadership pipeline.• Strengthened the company’s professional team qualities by training managers on leadership skills.• Provided coaching and counseling to accommodate succession planning needs.Achievements• Organized development projects in talent management reviews by performance management initiatives and other enterprise-wide HR development tools, resulting in 20% rise of productivity in 1 year.• Achieved peaceful and productive industrial relations, co-operated successfully with existing employees’ unions, by co-drafting a special collective agreement for IASO General Hospital that reduced lost productive hours by 90% in 1 year.• Secured, supervised and successfully implemented two government funded (a total of $300,000 worth) training programs, aiming for promotion of women in management positions. Over 200 women were trained for the period of 9 months, 15 of which were accordingly assigned managerial roles.

Fully assigned to Vodafone SAP HR project. Researched, analyzed and provided best practices solutions to Vodafone's Human Resources Department in a wide range of essential HR processes, mainly:- Payroll Administration- Compensation and Benefits- Organizational Structure & Development- Employee Suggestions' Scheme- Fleet Management- Technical Documentation of custom made SAP HR programs

Led SAP HR implementation teams for the following joint MyGnosis LTD - Unisystems S.A. projects:- SAP Payroll localization & product development solution- NBG SAP HR implementation (Conceptual Design)

•Participated and led as a Senior SAP HR Consultant in major full-cycle implementations in Health Care, Petroleum, Banking and Telecommunications Industries.•Provided coaching to supervisors, advised managers in staffing, performance management, ensured compliance with employment legislation during project implementation. Achievements•Advised HR Directors by means of designing tailor-made organizational development projects, which led to significant cost-saving, due to rightsizing of Departments involved.•Streamlined HR processes, namely: Hiring, training, disciplinary control, payroll accounting, HR policy writing, grievances work flow, conflict management resolution that succeeded in increasing the annual employee satisfaction rate by 35%.