Marie Pavelka
Head of HR CEE & Central Asia, Medtronic
* Multilingual Senior HR Professional
* Strong international experience
* Open minded and flexible
* Able to deal with complexities
* Resilient, resourceful, optimistic and energetic
* Change management
* Project management
* Business skills
* Building business partnership
* Cross-functional and cross-cultural team work experience
* Public, private and corporate HR know-how
* Business development and start-up experience
* Six Sigma
Strategic HR Management
Leadership Development
Talent Management
Organisation Design
2006 - 2011Key Achievements:
• Provided strategic talent demographics analysis for Cummins Filtration
organization development plans in Europe
• Created and established new consistent talent acquisition process used
now across all Cummins European divisions and locations - 4 business
units, 13 countries, 3500 employees.
• United all European businesses under one corporate talent acquisition
process
• United all European businesses to use competency based position
profiles in line with Performance Mgmt System
• Developed and executed short, mid and long term European Talent
Acquisition Strategy
• Introduced competency based talent management – competency based
position profiling, competency guide cards
• Created training materials and delivered in-house ‘train-the-trainer’
and standard trainings: competency based position profiling,
assessment skills
• Provided Resources & Capabilities gap analysis for Power Generation
Businesses in Europe and evaluate its impact on talent resources and
company’s competitive advantage
• Introduced employee referral schemes initiative to Romania and Germany
• Improved effectiveness of talent acquisition: time-to-fill 40%
reduction, cost-per-hire 69% reduction, quality-of hire 18% increase
• Introduced European Universities relations strategy, identified and
began partnership with key universities in Germany, France,
Romania, Belgium, Czech Republic to build company’s knowledge and
capabilities through talent resources
• Improved internal talent mobility by creating Cummins Career Networking
Group
• Improve R&D raw talent acquisition and development planning
• Positively influenced succession planning rates
• Improved Cummins ‘Employer-of-choice’ brand
• Co-developed ‘Raw Talent’ development program for Romania and Germany
• Provided several high level Talent Resources analysis for
organization’s strategic business plans in Europe
2005 - 2006* Ownership of multiple recruitment assignments and projects across Cummins UK sites
* Build strong partnership with Executive leaders, line HR and hiring managers across functional lines and business units in the UK.
* Coach and develop managers in recruiting and assessement techniques
* Coach managers how to create position profiles and use Cummins Management Performance System
* Advise Senior Management on labour market conditions in Europe and availability of overseas talent
Achievements
* Exceeded Key Stakeholders expectations and met SLAs
* Met high volume recruitment targets.
* Led Recruitment project for Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to attract enginnering talent to join Cummins in the UK.
2001 - 2003* Build relatioship with key customers (i.e. Siemens, Schneider Electric, Danone, Peugeot, Accenture, Nutricia, T-Mobil, Megafyt...)
* Senior/Executive Recruitment, Executive Search, Assessment center, Psychometric testing, Personnel audit, Graduate/College recruitment
* Talent management and Talent development consultancy
* Responsible for annual business plan, business development strategy and regional team leadership
* Responsible for meeting business plan and annual budget, P&L responsibility.
* Turn-over incease from 5M CK in 2001 to 12M CK in 2003.
* Lead competency based interviews in English, French, German and Czech.
* Negotiate contracts with customers
Achievements
* Exceeded turn-over target, successful growth of the business
* Achieved exclusivity to recruit for executive/managerial positions with several key customers and was chosen to be their RPO partner
2000 - 2001* Participate in business plan creation during the start-up of the company in 2000
* Responsible for set-up and documentation of processes and procedures
* Recruitment, executive searches for managerial and graduate vacancies
* Lead competency based interviews, approx. 1500 interviews per year
* Build candidates database and customers portfolio
Achievements
* Successful start-up of the company, identified new business opportunities and acquired new clients
* Exceeded sales targets
* Created internal applicant tracking system and candidates database, set up company processes
1999 - 2000* Responsible for compensation and benefits for circa 200 employees
* Budget responsibility - 6M CK
* Responsible for benefits? reports and employees? eligibility
* Responsible for regional statistics and annual statistical reports
* Prepare and negotiate collective agreement with regional trade unions? representative
* Introduced new employee contribution pesnion scheme
Achievement
* Recognition for faultless reporting and meeting the budget
* High employees? satisfaction feedbacks
* Successful cooperation with trade unions