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Portugal

Oberkochen, De

Oberkochen, De

Leading people and organization development for our consumer markets of more than 1,5 billion euro in revenue with + 13.000 employees globally. My focus is on evolving our organization to a high-performing culture by bringing a sharp focus and alignment on our strategy, structure, processes, metrics, and most importantly, people. I am also ramping up and leading our first International hub in Lisbon.

Own consultancy practice, PREACH:• People strategy Development - next generation leadership and workforce• Executive Search and assessment • Leadership coaching and development • Management advisory on organisational, people and leadership development• Coaching and mentoring • Organisation transformation programs including change and communication management I am a HR generalist with a strong, ‘out-of-the-box’ and conceptualize toolkit primarily operating within the digital space. My focus is on people transformation and change management to help organisations build a strong foundation for future readiness.

Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, De

Strategy partner and trusted advisor for the SVP Talent on team effectiveness, talent strategy and bringing our key priorities to life. I support the Global Talent Leadership Team on strategy formulation and projects within performance, talent management, learning and development, succession management, org. development / effectiveness and culture transformation. My role is to ensure that we deliver on our top talent priorities by engaging and driving projects cross-functionally. I am also responsible for developing compelling narratives, communications and presentations for the Executive Board, and Corporate Leadership Group (top 20 leaders in adidas) on Talent topics. I also drive the creation and planning of our roadmap to ensure progress and execution. Lastly, I am responsible for Talent’s forecast, budget, workforce planning and KPIs.

Billund, Dk

Project lead for LEGO’s crucial people strategic priorities. Part of the Global CoE Senior Leadership Team, reported to the VP for Global CoE, Talent:Project: Global HCM Implementation, WorkDay.Project leader for LEGOs Global CoE Functions. My role was to ensure a successful implementation of the talent processes. I had a PM role focusing on engagement, communication and change management.Project:Agile transformation in Leadership Playground.Developed and executed on a strategic and tactical plan on how to implement Agile WoW in our Leadership model. Instead of planning a classic ‘Bing Bang’ roll out, I initiated and executed pilots in the business. By rolling out the concept incrementally, we managed to engage and bring our employees along the journey and defined which areas would benefit most from agile WoW capabilities. Project: D&I sprint to define key initiatives for gender balance.Agile coach and facilitator for our sprint. I gathered relevant specialists in LEGO to take part in an agile design sprint focusing on identifying root causes, idea generation and solutions. Within a week, we managed to interview business leaders, idea generate, define root causes and must win battles. We presented solutions to our HR Leadership Team and the result was outstanding. The sprint resulted in a strong foundation for the future D&I work in the Lego Group.Project:Create strategic plan for future digital organization.Ensured that we had the right people with the right skills and capabilities to lift our digital agenda and ambitions. I had to prepare a solid strategic plan for our top executive management team on how we would assess and develop (reskill and upskill) our employees to be digital ready. I explored various assessment tools and developed a plan on how to equip our leaders with the necessary toolbox for them to lead and develop their employees for the future.

City Centre, Harju, Ee

Advisory role for top management team on people, leadership and organizational development strategic priorities. Focusing on building capabilities and value-adding people processes to drive engagement and scale the business. Cultural transformation and developing ways of working from a start-up to a scale up company - building a strong core while maintaining and implementing agile ways of working and keeping the essence of the company: Speed, fast decision-making and passion.

København Sv, Hovedstaden, Dk

Part of TDC Group. Responsible for building a new people roadmap and the TA function with 4 senior employees in recruitment and employer branding. Part of the HR Leadership Team, reported to CHRO and SVP People Development.I was responsible for defining a new strategic direction and initiatives for our people agenda focusing on the end-2-end employee experience, including HR systems and processes, to build a strong future digital workplace. I was highly engaged with executive leadership team to develop our strategy and design our future organisation.Key Tasks:Modernizing our leadership model and organizational culture to support an agile WoW by simplifying our people processes Responsible for recruitment and employer branding activities in Nuuday covering 4 brands to attract skills of tomorrow Advocate for building a culture based on the agile fundaments ‘fail fast, learn fast and speaking your mind – with HR and the businessDriving the DEI agenda to attract more women in the digital space and building an inclusive culture for future talentsResults: Developed initial roadmap and strategic plan of the people agenda Built agile project teams to drive main pillars on new people priorities Successfully developed and executed Talent engagement and activation plan by involving key business and HR stakeholders to take part in key events and drive ownership of the people agendaAttracted more than 100 digital talents within 1 year based on a new recruitment and attraction strategy underpinned by DEI initiativesRFP process: Screening, selection and project managing with external consultancy firm Coached and develop leaders with new leadership capabilities and mindset to lead digital talents Developed, launched and facilitated the first ever Digital Hackathon as an attraction, retention and inclusion strategy to foster and accelerate creativity and experimental mindset Transformed the HR team from a transactional HR function to strong strategic partners

København Sv, Hovedstaden, Dk

TDC GROUPHRBP for CISO and Headed the TA team across 5 business lines: 6 senior recruiters and 1 coordinator. Part of HR leadership team, reported to the SVP, People Development. Key Tasks: ~HRBP for CISO to help onboard him in his role, drive his strategic plans in building a new security organization focusing on DEI initiatives, onboarding, talent development and leadership assessment. ~Responsible for the E2E recruitment process in TDC group across all business units: Supported Executive management and top leadership team on recruitments and assessments. ~Proactive succession planning of external talent pipeline to bench for business-critical positions ~Defining a new strategic agenda on new ways to attract and recruit, including DEI, and driving large-scale recruitment projects focusing on critical positions within security, IT and digital~Building a new search function from scratch and upskilling HRResults: Full transformation of the recruitment function to a business-oriented HR function Implementation of new recruitment process - Reduced time to hire with 50% Key contributor in building and designing a new security organization Hogan certification and implemented leadership assessment on senior management rolesMinimized external search cost by more than 6 million DKK within the first year and built in-house capabilities Unconscious biased training for leaders by equipping the TA team with a strong understand of DEIDefined a new digital recruitment and employer branding strategy: New agile recruitment process, branding and DEI initiatives, implemented new applications to existing HCM platform and presence on new digital mediasStrengthen employee engagement from below-average to over-average with the highest engagement score in People Development. Optimized internal mobility by mapping and bridging our talents to the right positionsStreamlined HR processes to AI and Robotics Won the People Success Award for best HR accomplishment

København Sv, Hovedstaden, Dk

TDC GROUP. Hired to build an in-house search function until promoted to Head of Talent Acquisition

Tarrytown, New York, Us

Responsible for executive search and assessment assignments covering local and international assignments, working on positions on Senior Management, CxO and board level. Responsible for 1 student-worker, reported to the Managing Partner. Key tasks: Conducted and supported assessments of senior executives and C-suiteProject management of the entire recruitment process on both local and international assignments for leading companies in the Nordics Business development and research – defined leads based on market research Responsible for drawing up job profiles with clients including defining search strategies and market analysisPreliminary competence- and behavior-based interview Identified candidates through sourcing including references

Copenhagen, Dk

Responsible for recruitment projects and search assignments on middle to senior management level. Reported to the Managing Partner.Key tasks:Double role: Consultant driving my own clients and researcher to support the partner groupResponsible for end-to-end process from start-up meetings with clients, preliminary interviews to the final presentation and selection of candidatesRecruitment profiles, job advertisements, presentation for clients Project management and ramp-up for a leading French FMCG global power brand during their start-up in Denmark

Bangsaothong, Samutprakan, Th

Responsible for business development for dz card’s Nordic office in Copenhagen, Denmark. Reported to the Regional Managing Director, TelecomKey tasks:P&L responsible Responsible for dz card's telecom business in Scandinavia Involvement in various contactless and NFC projectsAccount management between clients, our regional sales office and production in ThailandResponsible for various ad hoc assignments assigned by the Regional Managing Director in TelecomBusiness Development - I was the initiator and project lead in cooperation with a telecom company on expanding their product portfolio and was responsible for managing the entire phase from product design, technical issues with the supplier in China, which I identified through a thorough screening process and research.

Bangsaothong, Samutprakan, Th

HR and Communication Intern at dz card's HQ in Bangkok, Thailand. Reported to the CHRO.Key tasks:Various HR tasks: Employee training, process optimization etc.Onboarding of expats in the organisationMonitoring HR objectives, data analysis and process optimization

Reported to canvas Team Lead.Focus areas:• Handling canvas sales and upselling of mobile, television and internet subscriptions for the TDC consumer division Results:• Among top 10 sales consultants in TDC telemarketing

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Intercultural Market Communication

Culture Studies

Global Studies

Graduate Diploma (Hd), Economics & Innovation Management