Chantal: HR Director

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HR Director France – ACS at Honeywell

Generalist HR professional with 15 years experience in supporting companies growth and leading multiple HR and organisational projects in fast-paced and multicultural environments.

Recognized leadership, interpersonal skills combined with project management and negotiation expertise

Specialties

HR strategy & management: organisation design, change management, talent development, performance management, career path & competency model, coaching, diversity and intercultural sensitivity, compensation & benefits, recruitment, working in matricial environment, negotiation, employment law

Legal: company law, international business law, intellectual property and trademark law, litigation and pre-litigation, lobbying

 

Experience

L&ER HR Director ACS France

Honeywell

Public Company; HON; Aviation & Aerospace industry

July 2011 – Present (3 months) Paris Area, France

Objectives:

  • Increase HR competency and business support through team reorganisation and re-motivation (team of 6)
  • Improve unions relations in a severely damaged social climate
  • Drive key re-organisation projects
  • Member of the Management Board

HR Manager Sales – HCIT France

GE Healthcare

Public Company; GE; Hospital & Health Care industry

February 2009 – July 2011 (2 years 6 months) Velizy, France

  • Led a key company project to integrate 4 sales organisations under a common management: new organisation design and implementation, drove cultural change (communication, cross-business initiatives…), developed internal mobility through extended career paths (+40 yearly moves), assessment and staffing of key sales & management positions, incentive plans & C&B schemes reshuffling, coaching of top sales & operations managers
  • Partnered with business leader to leverage the sales force efficiency: coaching and development program implementation, performance management and talent upgrade, competency model re-design, definition of sales training plan to anticipate on market needs, succession planning and recruitment strategy
  • Projects & unions management (across GE Healthcare): drove the head office move across 6 legal entities (500 ees), preparation of the merge of 5 legal entities (+2500 ees, C&B study, business case pitch to the EMEA top management), led information-consultation of safety committee for the implementation the new performance appraisal system, member of the negotiation team of the senior plan and stress agreement, negotiated & implemented a 24/7 time agreement
  • Co-lead the GE Women’s Network Paris West hub: +30 events per year, including participation to major event such as Odyssea & Interelles; defined a new strategy leading to a +20% in memberships and leveraged network visibility an credibility towards the EMEA top management
  • Supervision of the pharmaceutical and life sciences divisions; management & development of a junior HRM & two HRA

HR Manager Service FBL

GE Healthcare

Public Company; GE; Hospital & Health Care industry

November 2006 – May 2009 (2 years 7 months) Velizy, France

  • Defined and implemented the HR policy to accelerate the business cultural turnaround: competency model & career path (technical/sales/support functions), recruitment process incl. creation of a technical test, age management (50 years old in average) & succession planning (trainee program), management upgrade and coaching, employee survey exploitation (round tables, working groups…) and action plans deployment (engagement, process simplification…), C&B policy (recruitment grid, compensation studies)
  • Established trustful relationships with unions in a traditionally tense environment: successfully renegotiated the working-time agreement, president of safety committee (+1000 ees), managed stress survey and action plan deployment (+1000 ees)

Human Resources & Legal Director

Vivendi Universal Games International

Public Company; V; Computer Games industry

April 2001 – June 2006 (5 years 3 months) Velizy, France

European Human Resources Director :

  • Developed and lead HR strategy and projects across Europe in line with business objectives (internal communication, personal and team effectiveness, training, creation of new divisions, recruitment…); drove acquisitions integration and European subsidiaries creation
  • Lead and managed work council and trade union relations, preserved a good employees/unions dialogue during changing phases (lead the restructuring plans and the spin-off and divestiture of divisions), led reorganisations throughout Europe (Spain, Germany, Ireland and the UK), ensured compliance with national employment laws and group policies
  • Defined the compensation and benefits policy (sales targets, bonus plan, cars…)
  • Member of the Vivendi HR group committee
  • Team of 4 HR in France & 3 local HR

European Legal and Office Services Departments Director:

  • Defined the legal strategy, handled the major legal operations (distribution, development and suppliers agreements…) and litigation
  • Handled corporate operations in Europe (set up and acquisitions of companies, divestitures)
  • Created and structured the office services department (2 sites, budgets of 5M€); increased the service level while rationalising the costs
  • Professionalized the teams (definition of missions and targets, design of work processes, piloting tools…)
  • Team of 3 legal and 3 office services

Legal Manager

Right Vision

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry

September 2000 – March 2001 (7 months)

Created and structured the position in order to support the growth at the take off phase of the company

Human Resources & Legal Manager

Havas Interactive Europe

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Games industry

August 1996 – July 2000 (4 years)

Created and structured the departments and integrate them in the company culture as business partners in a rapid growth environment

Education

Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)

Doctorate/PHD, International Tax Law

1992 – 1998

Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)

Master, International Business Law

1987 – 1992