Eduardo Potenza

Responsible for the HR, Facilities and Management areas.

· Lead People and Organization function (HR) in the Mexico with 20 associates in my direct team and represent more than 150 HR associates in the country. · Novartis Mexico has 1800 FTEs and sales revenue of 400mUSD. · Report to Country Head, Member of Country leadership team, Commercial Leadership team, Regional HR Board and lead the local HR Board. · Responsible to design and implement the P&O strategy in a close collaboration with the business. · Strong focus on three main pillars: Talent, Culture and Organization evolution. · Implement a turnaround in local culture elements focusing on performance, learning and accountability. Novartis Mexico grew sales double digit after 5 years with flat results and positioned as the best score in the Latam region for the organization climate survey. · Solid talent strategy with the main focused of increased talent density and solidify the succession planning. Rebuild almost 100% of leadership team and review the performance and potential assessment of middle management, increasing the talent exportation for US and Europe and decreasing the turnover by less than half of market average. · Flawless Organization design project implementation, since the business value chain analysis to design Org. charts, policies and process. · Develop and implement the journey to ensure the board as a high-performance team.

· Responsible for representing the HR Shared Services in Brazil (Payroll, HR Ops, Talent Acquisition and Rewards) and lead directly the Compensation and benefits, Global Mobility and Work-life integration program strategy and operation for Brazil, managing 14 HCs in my team. · Member of local Shared Services leadership team, Regional Rewards board and Global Projects Board. · Global and external recognition of local Work-life integration plan with innovative approach ad strong impact in the work life balance, Employee value proposition and consequently in the attraction and retention indicators. · Leader of cross functional group responsible for the local cultural transformation. · Change management and shared services re-design, ensuring high quality service and business and HRBPs positive feedback. · Global project of benefits harmonization for all Novartis divisions with no impact on operation and budget, winning the local awards as best project of the year. · Implementation of new global methodology for position evaluation, focused on change management and business competitiveness.

· Lead Compensation, benefits and global mobility strategy for Commercial divisions and Shared Services, managing 2 FTEs. · Implement new global compensation cycle (STI and merit), managing local complexity of performance evaluation, union agreement and change management plan. · Co-leader of M&A projects (GSK and Vaccines) and Pharma resizing. · Leader of full review of field force total compensation program, winning local awards.

· Coordinate strategic agenda of Novartis Brazil reporting to General Manager. Participate in all board meeting and global visits. · Led Growth Acceleration Project, global board special initiative for Brazil and China with objective of double sales in 5y. Partner with local leadership team, Global Strategic team, Credit Suisse and McKinsey to develop 7 key initiatives (Organic and non-organic growth).

- Strategic HR Business Partner for Marketing and Sales (approx. 450 HC) - Responsible for design and implement the HR strategic for our customer facing areas

· Strategic HR consultancy focusing on innovation and continuous improvement for Marketing, Sales, Corporate affairs and Strategic Planning (300 FTEs). · Responsible for key OD projects: (1) development of the HR content for the leadership academy; (2) education support policy redesign; (3) implementation of new performance management system (pilot and go live); (4) Development of the first internship program.