Served as the strategic lead executing the regional people strategy for multi-site operations across Germany, France, Spain, and the Czech Republic. 

• Strategic Advisory: Acted as primary HR partner and advisor to regional leadership, translating commercial business goals into localized people strategies supporting team effectiveness and organizational design. 
• Labor Relations: Served as the chief negotiator with German Works Councils (Betriebsrat), successfully securing shop agreements while managing complex redundancy programs and multi-jurisdictional labor laws. 
• Cross-Functional Optimization: Coordinated closely with global leadership to direct the regional integration of a global HRIS and spearheaded migration to localized payroll/benefit structures across 4 countries. 
• Pragmatic Execution: Balanced executive-level organizational design with hands-on operational oversight, ensuring documentation accuracy, data compliance, and robust lifecycle support.

Strategic HR lead driving business transformation, manager capability, and structural alignment across multiple European sites. 

• Leadership Coaching: Partnered directly with senior executive leadership to define localized people strategy, enhance manager capability through coaching, and deploy scalable performance calibration and succession planning frameworks. 
• Change Management: Led high-stakes, successful negotiations with works councils regarding organizational restructuring, talent alignment, and workforce planning.

Held full operational and strategic HR accountability for the German hub of a scaling, fast-moving international biotech firm. 

• Growth & Scaling: Designed and implemented strategic HR roadmaps aligned with global corporate objectives, driving organizational effectiveness during a period of rapid international scaling. 
• Operational Excellence: Flexed seamlessly between strategic partnership and hands-on execution, managing end-to-end recruitment, compliance onboarding, employee relations, and core administrative workflows

Directed international HR operations and modern people strategy across a highly cross-functional footprint spanning the US, UK, India, and Spain. 

• Consulted Fortune 500 clients on global HR service models and compliance.
• Partnered cross-functionally to optimize global payroll and mobility processes.

• Took a deliberate career pause to relocate internationally and raise my son, while maintaining professional German and Spanish language proficiency.

Managed global workforce mobility strategies and cross-border operations across 29 countries.