A highly accomplished HR & IT executive with a successful track record of leadership in both international and domestic roles inside Fortune 100 corporations. He is recognized for his depth of business acumen, strong leadership dynamic, establishing and implementing successful strategies, building strong organizations, driving change, influencing and problem solving skills.
Christian has more than 15 years of global experience in high-tech & retail industries.
On a personal level Christian has:
• Strong communication and influencing skills, which command the respect of his peer group and executives throughout the corporation as well as the ability to market ideas to diverse leadership teams.
• Proven accomplishments in leading HR & IT teams through a significant cultural change effort and demonstrating value to the business.
• Successfully implemented various HR Information Systems and Shared Services in complex, global organizations.
• Demonstrated Strategic skills as well as the ability to execute flawlessly. Process driven and strong system design background.
• Global experience North America, Mexico, France, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, Japan; Singapore & China.
• Resourcefully innovated and adapted in a rapidly changing environment as well as the ability to function in a highly matrixed organization.
• The ability to act as a credible coach and facilitator and a role model for effective leadership and performance.
• A collaborative decision-making and work style. Very comfortable working in fast paced environments.
• Proven ability to build trust and credibility among his team and at all levels within the organization and across the globe.
• Driven by common sense but very comfortable with working through gray/ambiguous areas. Results driven and has a bias for action. Highly motivated self-starter. Extraordinary integrity.
• Strong ability to assess the needs of the business and design and implement the best solutions
Vice President, Key accounts @ Responsible for all of continental EMEA, focus on all of Saba's existing clients From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Munich Area, GermanyRegional Vice President Central & Eastern Europe @ Responsible for all existing clients and new business - in DACH & Eastern Europe From January 2012 to May 2014 (2 years 5 months) Munich Area, GermanyVP Customer Value Programmes EMEA @ Scope of the position – entire EMEA region and across all SABA products. The role has close tie with sales, professional services, product management, marketing & partner management.
Responsibilities of this new established function are:
1. It’s CUSTOMER FACING:
For SABA existing customer base and prospects – Strategic adviser for senior management with regards to maximising value/usage of SABA products, broad cloud platform adoption. Establishing business cases/RoI. As well as HR Strategy, approach to integrated People Development, Global deployments, Implementation and change management incl. dealings with challenges in the areas of employee relations/data privacy
2. It’s HEADQUARTER FACING:
Product management - „Voice of the EMEA region“ – capture new requirements (from customer base /partners /legal) & market trends. Prioritize & feedback to corporate product management team
3. It’s MARKET FACING:
HCM Product evangelist, speaker at events/conferences, interviews with analysts & press, asset in pre-sales cycle for sales force (internal/partner)
Main focus is the CUSTOMER – bringing the customer perspective to the table, having a clear understanding of customer needs and being the „chief customer advocat“ within the SABA EMEA organisation. From 2011 to June 2012 (1 year) Head of HR & Payroll solutions @ Responsible for all HR & Payroll systems in Media-Saturn Group From October 2007 to August 2011 (3 years 11 months) Head of HR services, HRIS and quality @ Head HR services, HRIS and quality, 16 countries & more 50.000 employess From June 2007 to September 2007 (4 months) Senior Director of Human Resources Information Technology @ From May 2003 to May 2007 (4 years 1 month) Director Global HR system integration @ From October 2001 to April 2003 (1 year 7 months) EMEA HR systems manager @ From January 1998 to April 2002 (4 years 4 months) SAP HR consultant @ From January 1993 to December 1997 (5 years)
Christian Foerg is skilled in: Personnel Management, Change Management, Organizational Development, HRIS, Human Resources, HR Transformation, Program Management, Enterprise Software, Management, Talent Management, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, SAP HR, PeopleSoft
Websites:
http://www.saba.com