Mihaela Popa

• Manage a complex HR team (12 direct report over a 50 HR team members) across 3 Business Divisions 5500 employees (with R&D, workers and shared services)
• Developed comprehensive onboarding programs for new hires, improving retention rates and overall satisfaction.
• Liaised between multiple business divisions to improve communication and align HR Policies
• Ensured legal compliance in all HR practices, mitigating potential risks related to employment law violations or disputes.
• Strengthened employer brand through targeted recruitment marketing campaigns.
• Evaluated compensation structures and policies, ensuring competitive positioning within the market and internal equity among staff members.
• Define and implement Mobile Office policy to enhance recruitment, retention and wellbeing of employees
• Design flexible benefits and wellbeing initiatives
• Designed performance management systems that supported employee development and organizational success.
• Design development programs for "first time managers"
• Manage restructuring programs
• Manage the Employee Relations and Collective Negotiations with employee representatives

• Supervise HR teams of 15 Plants within the Electronics Division
• Manage Talent Management over the designated area
• Distributed employee engagement surveys to identify areas of improvement and follow up on proposed measured
• Build up synergies among the regions - eg Career Path for staff

• Manage the Global HR Team of the Division
• Collaborated with executive leadership team to align HR strategies with business objectives.
• Supported organizational change initiatives by guiding employees through periods of transition, minimizing disruption
• Coordinate the Employee Opinion Survey - actions and follow up
• Manage HR Budgeting of the companies within the Division
• Manage the Talent Review for the Division

• Implement retention policies for short & long term
• Organize and support for other HR Managers from the Frigoglass group - offering induction programs
• Optimization of reporting, improvement of HR processes
• Develop and implement internal training platform and manage the annual training plan
• Employee relation management, Collective Contract negotiation
• Managed lay offs, collective lay offs
• Insured ISO compliance of HR processes
• Build and implement a total performance management system for the whole organization
• Develop an operational database for employees that reduced workload for HR team
• Setting up of Training & Development function in Romania
• Develop & implement internal training platform & internal library of company
• Define Comp& Ben policy in order to reduce turnover
• Develop salary structure and grids in order to

insure internal equity and market competitiveness

• Development & implementation of traineeships program for the positions difficult to be covered
• Implement 4 shifts working schedule and bonus for the respective teams in production
• Organize best practices sharing on local level with other companies in order to facilitate the management team operational improvements idea.

• Overall implementation of company's policies and procedure at branch's level as well as active involvement at organization's level in Romania
• Develop and implement procedure for white and blue collars recruitment
• Organize orientation training for new comers
• Identify training needs and select appropriate training providers
• Implementation of training monitoring system
• Internal trainer of Nestle Romania on People Development process and Appraisal System
• Managed 100% ISO compliance of HR processes
• Development and implementation of new salary grid of the company
• Payroll and benefits budgeting, budget analysis
• Responsible for Employee Relations - direct contact person and negotiation with the Union
• Implementation of Nestle HR policies after the local company (Joe) was taken over
• Implement the new performance management system in whole Nestle Romania by being trained at HO Switzerland and then responsible for training all employees on it
• Insured 100% compliance of CARE audit (Nestle internal audit concerning HR activities)