Reporting to Sr. HR Director for EMEA, leading the HR Function for 3 countries, based out of Istanbul. Leading 1 direct report and responsible for ~150 employees.Key responsibilities:• Member of the Country Leadership Teams in Turkey & Israel. Partnering with LT members on their leadership development journey as well as team-specific topics. Supporting the country leader transition in Turkey from a local leader to an expat leader. • Sponsoring the employee engagement committee and driving the HR team to elevate the employee experience. Achieved 54% increase in overall employee engagement rate in 2 years.• Ensuring competitive and cost-conscious financial well-being for Turkey based employees in close partnership with Regional Compensation & Benefits Teams. Reduced the voluntary turnover (based on financial reasons) from double digits to low single digits. • Implementing organizational transformation initiatives across the region including large scale re-organization, functional centralization, on-site office closures and legal entity simplifications.• Designed and executed a Development Calendar for Turkey in 2023-2024, including Mentoring program, Development Centers, Learning Day as well as on-site and remote trainings. • Landing the change management process for Workday implementation as well as a brand-new Job & Pay Architecture in 2023. • Accelerating the total well-being strategy through activations in Sports, Physical and Mental well-being initiatives. • Aligning HR initiatives with the overall business strategy at regional and country levels. • Championing a culture of DE&I by designing & implementing local DE&I Action plans

Reported to HR Director for Eastern Mediterranean Area, I was responsible for providing HR Business Partnership to the management organization in 8 countries: Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Ukraine, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria. Responsible for ~35 Leaders and ~280 employees. Key responsibilities: • Coached functional managers and team leaders by translating the business goals into people objectives to create an engaged, high-performing workforce. • Member of the Leadership Team for two Business Units in 2 different brands across 8 countries. Also a member of the Customer Service Area Leadership Team. • Provided full scope of HR Business Partnering, including but not limited to: Organizational Design, Leadership Development, Talent Review and Succession Planning, Rewards Management, Change Management.• Coached and advised all the people leaders under the respective accounts in order to accelerate their leadership development. Designed and implemented three area-wide leadership development initiatives which were then leveraged as best practice across Europe. • Inspired the leaders towards the engagement agenda, achieved 21% engagement increase over 2 years; with a strong focus on action completion; which increased by 27%.• Facilitated the talent management annual cycle across functions and countries. Facilitating bi-annual talent reviews and succession planning sessions.• Took a key position in a massive-scale global reorganization in late-2020; guided the leaders throughout the organization design, synergy, employee staffing and communications.• Partnered leadership teams on two separate transformation initiatives in Israel & Romania in 2019.• Awarded with a special recognition across Europe (which was given to a very limited population in Europe HR) both in 2019 and in 2020. • Selected as one of three HR facilitators across Europe for a Leadership Development training program to be delivered in Denmark in 2019 / 2020.

Reported to HR Director for India, Middle East, Africa & Turkey based in Dubai, UAE. Relocated to UAE on an assignment between 2015 – 2016 and returned to Turkey in 2016 as the Country HR Leader. Led 1 direct report. Held additional responsibilities as:- Labor Relations Coordinator for MENAT- Talent Management Coordinator for MENAT. - HR Technology Focal Point for EMEAI • Represented the Turkey HR in the Turkey Country Leadership Team for all country-wide strategic decisions or changes. • Acted as HRBP to various departments over 5 years; both in Commercial and in Operations / Manufacturing. • Managed the Turkey People processes of a global acquisition (Dow Corning) in 2016. Led all people initiatives such as cultural integration, synergy activites, office move and C&B harmonization activities for Turkey.• Coordinated the local implementation of a major-scale centralization initiative and successfully relocated 100% of the Customer Service organization to Netherlands. • Led end-to-end recruitment activities in Turkey, from approval into onboarding process. Completed recruitment activities for more than 120 positions since 2013, by conducting more than 1K interviews. • Country focal point for all C&B activities; including review of market surveys, evaluation of promotion requests as well as benefits review; to ensure a competitive Total Rewards package is offered to the employees. • Implemented central Talent Management CoE initiatives within the country by organizing People Review sessions, succession planning meeting and employee development initiatives.• Driving the employee engagement survey process by encouraging participation, organizing focus groups for results reviews and gaining leadership commitment to materialize annual action items. • Coordinated a Collective Labor Agreement process in Turkey with multiple local and regional stakeholders. Managed to finalize the CLA with eventual costs under the set targets.