Karin S.

Develop Global Benefits, Pension & Mobility vision and mission and set strategic priorities to support the implementation of our People Value Proposition and to implement defined targets, review Benefits portfolio and enhance employee experience (e.g. foster connectedness of employees to their benefits), create a differentiated rewards experience focusing on communication tailored to different target groups. Leading global team.

Leading design and implementation of global rewards strategy & solutions, focusing on executive compensation. Driving transformational projects to improve governance structures for reward and our STI and LTI plans. Conducted benchmarking focused on top executives to prepare for further rewards transformation. Leading international team and multiple projects incl. re-design of global job architecture and the Varian integration.

Shaping global benefits in Healthineers and developing the global target operating model for the benefits function. Build up global team and developed global benefits strategy, as well as global and local benefits portfolio focused on Health & Wellbeing, flexible working and to support a cross-border mobile workforce. Lead the implementation of our global wellbeing initiatives (e.g. Employee Assistance Program, Mental wellbing app). Providing steering and support for significant benefits & pension country transformation projects (e.g. US, Germany, China), incl. set-up of new plans. Established pension governance structures incl. the Global Benefits & Pension Board.

Guest lecturer for annual lecture for postgraduate students focused on incentive & rewards systems (Compensation & Benefits)

Responsible for Global Benefits and Pension Management, incl. pension governance, and setting up a globally steered process for Insurable Benefits management. Growing and developing global benefits team, and supporting the business in multiple stand-alone projects in Siemens (e.g. Siemens Healthineers, Siemens Mobility, Siemens Energy). In parallel, also responsible as Comp & Ben Key Account Manager for one global Siemens business.

Developing and leading strategic projects for Compensation & Benefits function, including position evaluation, HR IT developments, bundling etc. Since 2015 also Regional Speaker for Eastern Europe and Middle East, functionally leading and consulting Country CB Heads

Global Strategy & Governance: - Reward framework including policies and guidelines - Global Reward Structures, e.g. global job structure and grading - Compensation Processes & Tools - Reward Communication - Market Intelligence - C&B Trainings

- Annual compensation processes, e.g. salary planning & bonus plans - C&B partner for HR and Managers - Job evaluation - Market benchmarking - C&B Integration

HR M&A Integration Manager, focused on Compensation & Benefits

Diverse rotations in and outside of HR, including HR Business Partnering, Leadership & Development and Corporate Strategy

Working in different international organizations, including the UN (Food and Agriculture Organization), as well as the World Bank. Focused on vocational education and technology usage by farmers

- Proposed, designed and managed a research project for my PhD thesis (Knowledge Management in Nonprofit organizations) - Teaching and advising students (e.g. in General Management studies, Organization, Human Resource Management, Project Management), Creating and up-dating the Internet page, conference organisation, Editorial member of the VerbaendeReport, a leading monthly magazine for Non-profit-organizations in Germany - Responsible for project management for national and international research projects: - Concept formulation and presentation for restructuring a Nonprofit-Organization (10.000 members) - Development of a strategic marketing concept for an Nonprofit-Organization (2.500 members) - Writing a report about the organized interests in the trade sector in Germany based on interviews with all big trade associations (requested by the German parliament)

PhD - Doctorate

Postgraduate Diploma in Ecomincs