Valerie Blasco

As a member of the research community, I contribute to shaping content development by providing valuable insights and enriching perspectives on management and leadership. Collaborating with the research community, enhancing ideas and content to drive impactful discussions and thought leadership.

▶️ CORPORATE STRATEGY CONSULTING ▶️ Provided corporate strategy consulting to ambitious companies and international organizations.

GLOBAL HEAD–HR STRATEGIC PROJECTS/ PEOPLE TRANSFORMATION ▶️ SALES US$14B | 9.3K FTEs| 46 COUNTRIES Global Head of HR Strategic Projects (Jun 2020–Oct 2020) Global Head of People & Culture Transformation (May 2019–May 2020)

▶️ Initially hired on contract to privately-owned, vertically integrated oil company, to lead people side of CEO-driven global business transformation and culture change. Scope of responsibility expanded to include leading HR strategy for Switzerland and Europe in collaboration with HR country business partners. Served as member of global HR leadership team, reporting directly to CHRO. ✔Created OD design to support new business strategy and critical goals. ✔Managed culture change initiative encompassing leadership, values and behaviors, internal communications, employee value proposition and operational and people processes. ✔Assumed operational responsibilities for workforce management (HC, cost) and COVID crisis management following concurrent resignations of HR Head of Switzerland and HR Head of Europe. Fast-tracked development and onboarding of two HR colleagues to take over roles. ✔Restructured regional compensation. ✔Collaborated with leadership team on comprehensive regional talent review focusing on critical roles and capabilities to support business transformation.

▶️ SALES CHF 6.3B | 95K EMPLOYEES | 2600 OFFICES ▶️ Promoted to lead talent acquisition, leadership development, performance management and succession planning for world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, reporting to CHRO. Prepared board reviews and advised CEO and Operation Council members. Achieved World-Class efficiency of 13.7mCHF on annual cost of processes. ✔Spearheaded Talent Management strategy supporting 2020 business plan and addressing 2016/2017 priorities. ✔ Integrated integration Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development COE’s, into single cohesive organization, meeting CEO’s expectations. ✔ Redesigned Talent Review and Succession Planning processes, and upgraded talent performance and potential across the group. Improved governance, processes and training solutions. ✔ Created Group Talent dashboard including external benchmarking and predictive analytics. Assessed digital organizational capabilities and created workforce investment plan to support business goals. ✔ Built top executive population to support bottom line and business growth objectives. Gender diversity progressed on target to achieve 30% female representation by 2020. ✔ Attracted Technology Talent to launch e-commerce solutions and online services.

▶️ CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | GLOBAL HIRING | RISK MITIGATION ▶️ Hired to establish COE to standardize hiring processes across 100+ global sites, and mitigate enterprise HR risk associated with staffing 15,000 new hires annually at overall cost of 8.3mCHF. Assessed 80 senior leaders annually. Reported to CHRO and served on Global HR Leadership Team and Global HR Governance Committee. ✔ Built Centre of Excellence for Talent Acquisition to 80 dedicated HR professionals and 164 FTE. ✔ Orchestrated three-year Talent Acquisition strategy to hire 15,000 qualified recruitments annually. Achieved cost of 8.3 mCHF—94% lower than world class group. ✔ Recruited executive talent benchmarked by CEB as top leaders against international executive and senior manager market. ✔ Positioned SGS as leading employer brand, within industry, across 100+ countries; created career pages and “BE 100% YOU” brand still in use. ✔ Introduced data science and objectivity into talent acquisition and development process. Reduced error rate by 25%. ✔ Deployed company’s applicant tracking system and assessment platform supporting 15,000 recruitments annually and adopted by key countries.

▶️ SALES $1.5B | 7,000 EMPLOYEES | 120 COUNTRIES Recruited to business unit of leader in automation technology and process engineering, to create global talent management COE. Led talent management strategy, practices, and objectives with accountability for annual recruitment of 1,400 engineers and ancillary talent. Directed succession planning, leadership development and retention of key talent. Led team of 30 and reporting to Global HR VP. ✔ Established COE for Talent Management and Strategic Workforce Planning which reduced time and cost to hire and enabled access to a global talent pool; achieved 100% KPI targets. ✔ Created new leadership development program. ✔ Slashed turnover of engineers in 100 critical positions by +10% and achieved 100% success rate on recruitment scorecard.

Business Partner for Consumer Marketing and Research and Development. Set and deployed HR strategy and key priorities, Led 2 critical transformations including OD, team assessment and project management.

Led HR function across 13 subsidiaries for 4 global business units, growing organically by a minimum of 10% per annum. Started the EMEA HR support of the Digital Consumer Business Unit as HR Business Partner.

Country HR management. 100 employees, 30+ nationalities. Supported double digit growth across 5 business units.