Haruka S.

Lead group-level leadership development and succession initiatives across Sony’s global businesses. Main counterparts include Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Sony Music, and Sony Corporation of America. Key Contributions - Partner with CHROs and senior HR leaders across multiple Sony businesses to design and implement global leadership development strategies. - Lead the Sony Cross-Mentoring Program, a global leadership initiative connecting executive mentors with next-generation leadership talent across Sony entities. - Successfully established and scaled the program by matching 30+ senior executive mentorship pairs across business units. - Designed a mentee-driven mentoring framework enabling participants to define leadership development objectives, improving engagement and long-term mentoring relationships. - Align program nominations with long-term succession planning priorities across Sony business subsidiaries - Facilitate collaboration across complex global stakeholder groups while maintaining strategic alignment with group talent initiatives.

Led cross-European initiatives supporting brand/commercial execution and internal organizational alignment across multiple markets. Key Contributions - Directed 100+ cross-European projects with 10 BUs, involving budget governance, KPI alignment, and performance monitoring. - Built cross-market collaboration frameworks improving brand communication operational alignment across European teams. - Implemented employee engagement initiatives contributing to a +3pt improvement in internal satisfaction scores. - Introduced centralized succession planning practices supporting leadership pipeline visibility.

First general Human Resource lead for Business Unit of Japan and Hong Kong, responsible for establishing and developing all general human resource functions to enable further company expansion. Achievements: - Successfully recruited core team members to achieve 230% HC scale-up project - Manage employment records, work hours, and salary - Integrated master data, organization data, job mapping data from ABI International to APAC - Established company work rules (Shuugyou Kisoku in Japanese) complying with Japanese law, and successfully submitted to Japan Labor Standard office. - Established and initiated the people process/hiring to retiring process - Strengthened employee engagement by leading monthly people update cycle, quarterly brand learning activities, and leader trainings - Launched new graduate recruitment project for ABI Japan for the first time

Responsible to maximize brand activation for Corona Extra by managing a team of On-Trade Brand Promoter/Activators. Achievements: - Managed 9+ field promoters and increased Corona Extra brand visibility for east Tokyo territory of 25k accounts - Designed field promoter assessment program and executed for 80+ candidates for Tokyo, Osaka, and Okinawa region

First female Management Trainee to be placed as Area Retail Manager for Luxe division at Loreal Japan - second within L'Oreal group. Responsible to maximize 10% net sales target for Lancôme brand in Japan, and lead East Japan beauty advisor recruitment operation. Achievements: - Managed and developed 70+ beauty advisors,12 counter managers and 3 multichannel outlets - Developed 2 top performing beauty advisors through career counselling, internal appraisal, and team development plan - Achieved 99% vs LY while brand total resulted 92% in FY14 - Execute and evaluated 200+ interviews as operation lead for beauty advisor recruitment management for East Japan region - Led in planning recruitment strategy, and executed annual new graduate hiring campaigns with 12 successful recruitments