Laura Kalén

As Metso's Director, Global Compensation I manage and help to shape our Global Compensation culture and practices for 17 000+ employees in over 50 countries. My responsibilities include various global compensation practices such as budgeting, compensation structures and benchmarking, short-term incentive structures, benefits, job architecture and reporting.

As Metso Outotec’s Director, Global Compensation I manage and help to shape our Global Compensation culture and practices for 17 000+ employees in over 50 countries. My responsibilities include various global compensation practices such as budgeting, compensation structures and benchmarking, short-term incentive structures, benefits, job architecture and reporting.

Developing and implementing reward processes in accordance with Caverion People Strategy with main focus on: - Developing and managing short-term incentive plans - Base salary management, including salary range development and annual merit review process - Managing and developing Caverion Job Structure in line with the business needs - Consultation and training for HR community and management across all Caverion countries in reward related topics.

In my role, I had the ownership of the Wärtsilä Job Family framework, job evaluation practices and related activities. My focus was to ensure that the Wärtsilä Job Family framework and the global job structure are aligned across our businesses and countries and that we had a common framework that supports position evaluation, competence development, organizational planning and provides a structure for rewarding. In addition I participated in company-wide rewarding projects by developing global rewarding processes.

Comprehensive consultation related to performance & reward, global HR policies and global mobility, including corporate governance as well as country-based rules and regulations: - Performance & Reward: Consultation on reward management, including analysis of reward programs and designing variable pay plans (STI, LTI) and total reward framework. Specialized in performance-based pay. - Global Mobility: Designing and implementing global HR policies, consultation and management of employee mobility, compensation modelling, process development and cost projections - Mergers & Acquisitions: HR consultation, due diligence and business continuity - Training on reward management and global mobility best practices - Process development and change management - B-2-B sales - In-house support including process development, resourcing and training Multiple positions from consultant to manager between 2010-2017.

- Coordination of TULI innovation project - Co-operation with other universities of applied sciences in the AMK-TULI West Finland consortium, TUAS students and personnel - Reporting and budget controlling according to Tekes's terms and conditions for public research funding - Co-author in the article "Inventions as Support for Learning" in "Towards Innovation Pedagogy - A new approach to teaching and learning in universities of applied sciences"

- Supporting managers and employees with various HR and payroll related issues - General HR administration and policies, internal communication - Monthly payroll administration