Sabine L
About Sabine
Since 2018: Part-Time HR Director and Consultant at Boost'RH Group across south-east France.
- Part-Time HR Director assignments
- Leading organisations through strong growth, integration, mergers and acquisitions
- Developing HRIS projects
- Reorganising HR departments and developing HR teams
- Advising HR directors and company leaders
- Coaching managers and company leaders
Previous professional background
2017-2018 Human Resources Director
Cerfrance Alliance Centre, accounting/management/HR consulting, France, 28 sites - 950 staff
• Designing the group HR strategy and policy + budgets.
• Member of the executive committee
• Developing CSR and the disability employment policy
• Advising, supporting and guiding the members of the executive committee and management
• Leading organisational transformation
• Handling legal and employee relations matters: works council (CSE), regulatory monitoring.
• People development, training, manager recruitment.
• Training, developing partnerships with the leading schools
• Pay policy
• Managing an HR team of 9 people and cross-functional HR processes
• Managing the HRIS project
2015-2017 Group Human Resources Director
Antea Group, engineering consultancy, EMEA- Russia - France - 30 sites - 1000 staff
• Designing the group HR strategy and policy in a context of strong growth
• Member of the executive committee
• Developing CSR and the disability employment policy
• Advising, supporting and guiding the members of the executive committee and management
• Leading organisational change, mergers/acquisitions of new entities
• Handling legal and employee relations matters: works council (CSE), regulatory monitoring.
• People development, training, manager recruitment.
• Training, developing partnerships with the leading schools
• Pay policy
• Managing an HR team of 12 people and cross-functional HR processes
• Managing the HRIS project
2012-2015 HR Director, Consultant & Sociologist.
- Celsa Sorbonne (Paris): lecturer on the Master's in HR Management and Organisational Management
- HEC Paris: lecturer on the MBA and Master's programmes
- CNAM (centre): lecturer on the Human Resources and Sociology modules
In parallel: HR Director assignments on fixed-term contracts
Charles River (pharma) 450 staff, Abbott (Pharma) 2000 staff - Groupe Total Hutchinson site 1500 staff
• Strategic advice to the management and executive committees - change management and organisational development
• Industry-level negotiations and roll-out of vocational qualification certificates (CQP) on industrial sites
• Developing workforce planning (GPEC) projects - recruitment of managers and executives, coaching …
2008-2012 HR Director West Europe - multi-site - 7 sites - 1400 staff
Zimmer Orthopedic surgery (US): manufacturing /sales force/ R&D/operations
France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland
• Designing the HR strategy and policy for France and Western Europe
• Leading organisational change, integration, mergers and acquisitions of new entities.
• Handling legal and employee relations matters - works council, staff representatives, union representatives
• Training, developing partnerships with vocational degree programmes and the leading schools, recruitment
• Internal communication and reporting
• Pay policy, development and performance management
• Advising, supporting and guiding two EMEA VPs and senior management
• Member of 3 management committees and 2 executive committees
• US/EMEA interface, budgets, headcount, synergies, performance systems, succession planning, training..
• Managing 5 HR managers and 6 assistants
1998-2006 Site HR Director 800 staff & European HR Development Director: 4 sites 3000 staff
Pfizer pharmaceutical industry (US, turnover 70 billion)
Generalist HR Director
• Managing the HR team
• Pay policy
• Employee relations and legal matters
• Recruitment
• Training
HR Development Manager (managing multi-site HR development projects)
• Organisational management and people development
• Creating a Pfizer MBA (12-month programme) with Insead for the top management of 25 European sites
• Member of the European “learning and development Team”, 12 HR staff: rolling out the harmonisation in France.
• Creating and running the “cross-functional and cross-country network”.
• Industry-level negotiations and creation of new job roles/vocational qualification certificates (CQP), rolled out on the sites.
Let's work together on your HR projects
Sabine is available to discuss your needs and propose tailor-made support.
Free initial phone call
Personalised assessment and recommendations
Support proposal within 48 hours