Description

I am bringing a remarkable blend of operational and strategic HR experience including organizational culture, engagement, talent management, learning & development, organizational development, and change management. Experience in the design and facilitation of soft skills trainings, HR programs, leadership interventions, and team coaching sessions.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

Turkish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Fluent
Dutch
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Brussels (up to 50km)

Barilla
Human Resources Director & Board Member
HUMAN RESOURCES
July 2022 - November 2024 (2 years and 4 months)
Turkey
• Strategic HR Business Partnership for Commercial and Production Site
• Forming the HR Team and increasing the capabilities of HR Team members
• Union management for Bolu Site
• Lead the Early Retirement Program
• Crisis management
• Change management – Culture, Strategy, Growth, Performance
• Talent Management & Organizational development
• Management of Administrative staff and budget for Head office and Site
• Compensation & Benefits – Management of Extraordinary salary increases (Inflation over 80%)
• Ad interim HR Director for APMA ( Japan, China, Australia, Singapore, Middle East)
Strategic HR Change and Transformation Management Talent Management and Employee Development Leadership Development union negotiations
Novartis Technical Operations
Group Human Resources Director
March 2018 - July 2021 (3 years and 4 months)
Strategic HR Business Partnership for 4 Sites (1 Divestment completed, 1 Exit in progress)
 Ensuring the development and implementation of a cohesive HR strategy in line with overall
Business strategy partnering with Site Heads in alignment with global strategy.
 Provide strategic and tactical workforce planning in alignment with the Business plan.
 Leading P&O organization of 16 P&O & T&L professionals in 3 Production Sites,
approximately 1,000 associates. (Unionized and non-unionized)
 Ensuring HR Business Partners set and achieve regularly updated performance goals based on
business priorities.
 Working on and supporting Organizational Design to fit the strategy
 Implemented Site of the Future model as pilot; Shared Functions organization for 3 sites
 HR Lead for successful divestment process of Gebze 1 Site.
 Ensuring Employee Engagement via various interventions; Engagement Surveys, Culture
Programs, Teaming Programs, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives etc.
 Lead 3 Sites’ Collective Labor Agreements
 Ensuring the excellence in all HR processes and introducing new programs; Talent
Acquisition, Assessment, Performance Management, Talent Management, T&L, Career
Systems etc.
 Introduction of integrated Early Talent and Leadership Development programs
 Ensuring the alignment of 3 sites in P&O strategies, processes and systems
 Managing the approximately 50% of the site budgets as personnel cost
 Drive cultural change and foster diversity and inclusion
 Manage internal communication, especially around HR-sensitive issues
(values, advancement, motivation etc.).
 Create new platforms and programs to ensure physical and psychological safety and health of
all our associates in this Covid 19 period.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Talent Manager (TMOD) & Senior HRBP
HUMAN RESOURCES
March 2011 - March 2018 (7 years)
Managing all HR processes; Recruitment, Performance Management, Compensation &
Benefit, Training and Development, Career Management, Organizational Development of
Business Franchises
 Managing all Talent Management and Organizational Development Processes such as
Organizational Talent Reviews, International and x-divisional Talent Brokering, Employee
Satisfaction Surveys, Flexible Working options Projects, Change Projects and various global
trainings reporting to Region Head TMOD (in Europe and AMAC regions)
 Facilitated many different workshops and focus groups (more than 20 HPTs, Change
workshops) to shape the culture
 Increased the TMOD capabilities of leaders and other HRBPs (incl. LASP workshops in and
outside Turkey)
 Leading x-divisional talent brokering, creation of talent pools and regular talent discussions
 Leads different projects for the region; corporate training process, inspirational place to work
project.
 Created and introduced innovative Leadership Development, Talent Management and
Capability Building programs; Fingerprint Club (became regional and x-divisional in 2017),
Visioners Club

 Supporting Corporate HR Director for Strategy / Budget discussions and presentations
 Team Member of Novartis Pharma Change Project
 Introduced Specialty Team HR Project (Differentiation project in all HR processes of new
structure)
 Introduced “Specialty Academy” project to assess, develop and train Sales Team
 Introduced flexible benefit project