Stuart Maxwell Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

I've held seven roles over 17 years, at IFF and been based in three countries -- primarily in international business partner roles. Additionally, I have led three Centers of Expertise and created a Strategic Workforce Plan which was delivered through Talent Acquisition, Diversity and Inclusion, overall HR Strategy and M&A.I developed the approach and methodology that has ensured talent impacts and implications are fully incorporated into IFF’s overall corporate strategy development and execution. I emphasized qualitative as well as quantitative elements in workforce planning to deliver the business strategy through a clear definition of the skillsets and capabilities the company needs across different functions. ✔ Fully integrated Workforce Planning 2.0 process, used by both Business Units and all Functions to support more effective strategy development and execution.✔ Reimagined the processes, tools and technologies utilized for candidate sourcing, assessment, attraction. Enhanced them to become best practices, while ensuring they were engineered and aligned to deliver the requirements laid out in the workforce plan.✔ Created a Diversity and Inclusion Function and developed a new and novel vision, mission and goals. Rolled out successfully globally including communications in 13 languages.

New York, New York, Us

I lead a Global HR team of 50 professionals providing full spectrum superior HR Business Partner support to teams generating $3 billion in revenue across more than 30 countries. ✔ I created organizational design to align with changes in customers and markets. This included crafting and executing a communication plan to sequence information sharing across stakeholders and into the organization. ✔ Partnered with senior leaders to develop overall multi-year talent management strategy for flavor and fragrance global business units. This included defining clear career paths and resulted in reduced turnover and enhanced overall capabilities. ✔ Designed process to include SMEs across creative leadership, IT, Learning & Development to develop engaging curriculum materials. ✔ Crafted fifteen career ladders, three schools, courses, and more for commercial, creative, technical and marketing teams covering the full range of business development.✔ Enhanced the overall value proposition of working at IFF and successfully created a pipeline of talent in a very narrow field of potential candidates worldwide.✔ Created vision and built global HR Business Partner Team across 19 countries. Individuals were transformed from generalists to true business partners. Initiated dramatically improved internal team communications and the sharing of best practices. This resulted in improved abilities of team members for engagement, coaching, development and succession planning. ✔ 90% of Global and Regional HRBP's promoted enterprise-wide were from my team.✔ My work resulted in HR support for business units becoming globally consistent for the first time. In turn, this enabled strong support for the corporate restructuring, change management and talent management programs.

New York, New York, Us

✔ I successfully designed and delivered a global HR shared services solution for IFF.

New York, New York, Us

I was the HR Lead for IFF's complete operation in Europe, Africa & Middle East region with HR accountability for $1 billion business; employees & facilities in 18 countries. I led an HR team of 16.✔ Led HR aspects of a successful business divestiture with manufacturing in France, Germany and Switzerland.

New York, New York, Us

I was on international assignment in New York within the Corporate HR group supporting to CHRO on a variety of global projects across the spectrum of HR functions.

New York, New York, Us

HR lead for developing market region. Managed people aspects of post acquisition integration. Achieved targets of 1 + 1 sales = 2 while 1+1 headcount = 1. Responsibility covered facilities in 11 countries; India, Africa (3), Middle East (3), Eastern Europe (6)

Progressively more senior HR roles with accountability expanding from UK to Western, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.

Ba (Hons), English Literature / History

Post Graduate Diploma, Human Resource Management. 1996 - 1998.