Michael Williams

• Oversee the entire recruitment process from role definition and crafting compelling job advertisements to extending final job offers. Collaborate closely with internal teams and hiring managers to ensure seamless execution. • Proactively source and identify potential candidates, conduct video interviews, manage interview schedules, and empower hiring managers with the insights needed to make informed hiring decisions.

• Act as a partner to the business by being the point of contact for all talent related topics, providing guidance to managers • Contribute to organisational excellence and future growth (organisational changes, leadership, and people development). • Closely work with Talent Acquisition and People Operations to ensure seamless workflows, process improvement and data excellence. • Oversee the team member life cycle and operational elements including onboarding, offboarding, payroll and work permits.

• Develop, propose and implement talent acquisition (TA) policies, methods, processes and programs for Smart Infrastructure – Electrical Products & Building Products • Ensure high quality recruitment and candidate experience, along with sourcing of candidates for key positions • Advise managers and / or employees accordingly on recruitment topics • Support in the design and development of talent acquisition policies, guidelines, methods and tools.

Managing the end to end recruitment for a number of areas within Zalando Consulting the hiring managers on all aspects of recruiting Preparing, conducting and processing interviews, along with evaluating the candidates and conducting negotiations Completing job ads Direct Search/Sourcing through a multitude of channels Training/Mentoring new starters and career progressors Quality management Project management/ownership and campaign cooperation with employee branding KPI analysis

Technical and disciplinary lead for a team of up to 40 people Recruiting and training of the new members and also promotion ready colleagues Time planning and shift management Analysis of daily reports/KPI Management Intercultural management Quality Management Internal & External Stakeholder management Vendor Management Workforce Management Report building Team motivation Process Optimisation Conflict resolution

Politics, economics and environment