Mike Stephens

Experience

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  Taylor Woodrow

  Aug 1990 - Sept 1994

  Senior Personnel Officer, International

  Scope: 500 employees (commercial, production & functional), UK, Kuwait, Malaysia, Ghana

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  Kvaerner

  Sept 1994 - Aug 1996

  HR Manager, Special Projects Division

  Scope: 300 employees (commercial, production & functional), UK, Portugal – operational

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  GTECH

  Aug 1996 - Oct 1998

  HR Manager, Projects & Systems

  Scope: 300 employees (commercial & functional), 5 EMEA countries– operational & strategicLed HR workstream for two successful major contracts in South Africa and Turkey from bid preparation to creation of fully operational local organization, built from scratch in 6 months.

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  Yazaki Europe

  Oct 1998 - May 2001

  HR Manager, Europe

  Scope: 1,000 employees (commercial & functional), 5 European countries – operational & strategicImplemented customer focussed localization plan to transition from Japanese to local management; replaced more than 50% of leaders and relocated the Regional HQ to Germany.

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  BD

  May 2001 - Oct 2022

  Scope: 15,000 employees (commercial, office based production & functional), 27 EMEA countries.Developed a Regional Flexible Workplace solution and implemented across 27 countries to meet pandemic, evolving talent expectations and long-term business needs:o Influenced and created alignment with WW policies and plans.o Very positive impact on employee engagement and external talent acquisition.o Increased capacity of existing office space by 30% to accommodate business growth with major savings in planned capital investment for office expansion.o Addressed home-office workplace health & safety legal & compliance risks. Show less Scope: 1,000 employees (commercial & functional), 9 EMA countries – operational & strategic Full integration of BARD Medical acquisition, including alignment of T&C, policies, etc. Implemented leadership development & succession plans to address retention and diversity:o High potential talents promoted per year increased to 37.5%.o High potential retention increased to 97.7%.o Female diversity at management levels increased to 43.6%. Implemented and stabilized RPO outsourced recruitment solution to free time for internal HR teams to focus on value-added business partnering. Show less Scope: 2,000 employees (functional), 18 European countries - strategicLed HR, change management and communications workstreams for a major reorganization: o Relocated all regional leadership, marketing, supply chain and procurement roles from France, Belgium, Germany and UK to a new EMEA HQ in Switzerland. o Created a Regional Shared Service Centre in Poland for all transactional finance, customer service, HR, procurement, QA and RA transactional work performed locally in each country. o Outsourced all IT support roles across Europe to a third party vendor.o Full integration of CareFusion acquisition, including alignment of T&C, policies, etc.o 600 positions eliminated, 500 newly created of which 100 were filled by internal relocations. No industrial action, limited business disruption. Recognized with exceptional CEO Award. Show less

  • HR Consultant - WW International Infusion Platform

    Apr 2022 - Oct 2022

  • HR Director – EMEA Flexible Workplace Program

    Nov 2020 - Mar 2022

  • HR Director - Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa

    Jan 2017 - Nov 2020

  • HR Director - Regional HR Business Partner, Functions

    Jun 2015 - Dec 2016

  • Regional HR Service Delivery Director - Europe

    Oct 2011 - Jun 2015

  • HR Director - BDM-PS WW Industrial Operations

    May 2008 - Sept 2011

  • HR Director - Medical Surgical Systems, Europe

    Mar 2003 - Apr 2008

  • HR Manager, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa

    May 2001 - Apr 2005
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  Maternal Newborn Health Innovations, PBC

  Nov 2022 - May 2023

  Human Resources Director/Consultant

  Med-Tech startup: Organisation design and talent acquisition for EMEA commercial organisation, including HR infrastructure development, and ramp-up of quality/operations team in Singapore.

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  Trivium Packaging

  May 2023 - Jan 2024

  Regional Human Resources Business Partner - BU Food

  Private equity BU HRBP: regional people strategy/execution and leadership of HR organisation in 8 countries. 2,000 employees, 17 plants, B2B commercial organisation, €1Bn BU revenue.

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  Grenoble Ecole de Management

  Feb 2024 - Mar 2024

  University Lecturer

  Lecturer: Digital Innovation & Transformations in HRM - MSc International Human Resources Management.