Talent and Career Development Program Design and Sales

2014/Sep.-2017/Sep. HR Country HR Director – Business Partner HR- Responsible for HR and Executive Secretary department, covering 200 employees in Japan office of Kantar Group - Operating as an effective executive member of leadership team, contributing to the overall corporate strategy, management and development of the business- Beyond HR field, involve in commercial business performance management and turn into Sales and HR agenda　　 1. Organization Development and Corporate Strategy Realization: Actively led Japan organization changes twice such as execution of Early Retirement Program and implementation of operation standardization organization (profitability improvement. achieved around 10% profit improvement), and Solution-based organization 2. Leadership and Talent Development to impact the business directly:Designed and introduced new Sales Leadership Training for mindset change into Business Consultancy approach with Account Strategies, and new People Manager Training for Leadership model and career communication with team members  Created and driven the Oversea Secondment Program, initiated by Japan for junior talent development in hands-on manner and successfully dispatched two top junior talents to WPP organization and Kantar HQ.3. Strategical recruitment: Partnered with business unit leaders and CFO to track and headcount and position requirements  Planed heathy population pyramid and mid-term organization, and created the guideline and prioritization of talent fulfillment (new grads, potential junior talents, seconded employees and internal promotions). 4. C&B: Implemented the performance management system commercially aligned to business strategies with new Short Term Incentive Plan in entire Japan with employee’s individual consent  In order to balance between the work and the life, especially for female employees (60% of work population) and employees nursing family, implemented the work-at-home program

1. HR policies and operations management:-Completed new C&B policies and operations for more than 300 expats among HQ and 14 overseas subsidiaries after benchmarking 3 major Japanese electric manufacturers. Defined the scope of outsourcing payroll tasks and selected the most appropriate outsourcing vendor. 2. C&B management:Led the C&B team to deal with the wage allocation and increments, social insurance and labor insurance, health insurance matters for more than 300 expats3. Executive personnel management at overseas subsidiaries:-Responsible for executive employment agreements, increments, performance evaluation for short term incentives of 3 presidents & CEOs of 3 major regional subsidiaries in U.S., Europe and China4. Global HR system management and Talent management:-Created and implemented succession plan for executives, including local top managements of strategically prioritized overseas subsidiaries as well as designed and executed talent management5. Learning & Development: -Responsible for Global training program to new hires, middle management executive, top management6. Performance Management: -Engaged in creation and/or update performance management system for executives at overseas subsidiaries. Designed and delivered new performance management program for overseas sales company executives by both quantitative and qualitative perspectives 7. Organizational Development & Strategic recruitment:-Responsible for cross-border M&A and post-merger integration-Completed several cross-border M&A deals such as 1500 employees-scale deal in Europe, South-east Asia, China, 1200 employees-scale in China, 650 employees-scale in U.S. (organized due diligence activities, retention measures and negotiations with work councils. Successfully completed post-merger integration activities)

-Responsible for Global HR management of 13,000 oversea employees in 6 sales subsidiaries (US, Europe, China, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan), 2 R&D centers (Vietnam, China), 6 manufacturing subsidiaries (China, Malaysia, Singapore)

-Engaged in sales promotion of Analog products for power management, LCD driver ICs and High-end System–On-Chip for HDD applications-Broadened responsible product line-up and successfully coordinated of Design wins in North America and Europe and released to mass production in EMS in China. Achieved two digits growth for two consecutive years, and reached around 100M US$ as annual revenue

 Responsible for the project management of transformed business operation process and introduced supply chain and accounting systems into sales unit at HQ and subsidiaries in overseas and Japan (demand/supply matching system as planning system and SAP as execution system) .  Managed team consisting of 50 directly/Indirectly reporting members and 30 consultants. Trained more than 1000 power users/general users of Europe, US, China (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing), Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) and successfully implemented the systems into 8 oversea sales subsidiaries and branch offices.

 Created start-up business for mobile application and peripheral businesses with Korea, Europe, U.S. and China mobile phone manufacturers, leveraged by advanced technologies of mobile applications in Japan. Formed task force, specially assigned by Executive Vice President.  Successful Design Wins from Korea mobile manufacturers by 3D surrounding ring tone and it became the pre-installed general applications for 3G feature phones.

 Responsible for Customer support, Supply chain management at the front line in Europe. Additionally engaged for budget control and dedicated sales for Japanese accounts in Europe. Covered the business territories of North Europe, Germany, Italy, Benelux countries.  Established supply chain services by first challenges of Vendor-Managed Inventory, Customer-Managed Inventory, and Kanban delivery supports for automotive, electronics and telecommunication manufacturers. Honored as the best supplier and business partner award by the biggest Italian telecommunication equipment manufacturer

 Responsible for customized Bipolar LSI products project which is a cross-functional project for German customer’s key products - Mainframe computer systems. Acted as the representative of Headquarters in business area (design-wins, price negotiation and supply chain support).  Broadened responsibilities of product lineups from semi-customized to general-purpose LSI products by increased coverage of responsible customers and applications.