Director Human Resources
Geneva Area, Switzerland
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- Director Human Resources at WHO (World Health Organization)
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- Director Human Resources and Organisational Effectiveness at UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services)
- Project leader internationalization at Siemens
- VP communications at Siemens Business Services
- Head of marketing at Siemens AG Center of E-excellence
- Vice President Marketing, Sales and Communications at Siemens Health Insurance
- Product Manager at Novartis
- Assistant of Executive Management at Böhme
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Monika Altmaier’s Summary
Experienced and highly qualified manager and marketing and HR-strategist with proven success records that have spanned both multinational organisations and medium sized enterprises; 20 years international experience in communications, commercial, sales, marketing and consultancy in the pharmaceutical and service industries in headquarter and countries. Very strong business decision making abilities as well as strong integration and interpersonal skills; decidedly entrepreneurial mindset and sense of responsibility for the company as a whole. Due to her long career she has a unique blend of expertise in many different categories such as the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, health care, insurance and IT sector. She developed and implemented single-market, pan-regional/european and global solutions and continuously improved profitability.
Extensive international experience in six cultures (Spain, France, Great Britain, U.S., Latin America, Scandinavia and Germany).
She is regularly asked to speak at international events.
Languages: French, English, Spanish and German
Monika Altmaier’s Specialties:
Change Management, Virtual teaming and collaboration, turnaround strategies, marketing brands across cultures, global leadership, business transformation, productivity improvement programs incl. implementation, business excellence, internationalization, capacity building, intercultural acting, topics, strong integration and interpersonal skills; (Spain, France, Great Britain, U.S., Scandinavia, Thailand, Australia and Germany). Train-the-trainer concepts
Monika Altmaier’s Experience
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Director Human Resources
WHO (World Health Organization)
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
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Director Human Resources and Organisational Effectiveness
UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services)
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
October 2006 — April 2009 (2 years 7 months)
Monika is responsbile for Human Resources, Corporate Strategy, Organisational development, Change Management, Strategic Budgeting, Business Analysis, Business Development, Knowledge Management, Performance management (Balanced Scorecard) , Career Development, Learning and Training, Business Processes, ATLAS (ERP-system) Policies and Quality assurance
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Project leader internationalization
Siemens
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 7 months)
Project leader internationalization of all media within SBS and Siemens, early entrant in the diffusion of new technologies and change management, initiator of the project “virtual teams” (standards and cooperation management) 500 Mio. cost savings in 1 year within Siemens;
Project leader strategy, change management and communications in Scandic - order intake + 95% in Denmark, + 51% in Norway. Business growth compared to previous quarter + 63% in Denmark and + 23% in Norway
Project “strategic business review /audit of all marcom activities within Siemens (including regional companies)” -
VP communications
Siemens Business Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2002 — February 2003 (1 year 1 month)
Siemens Business Services, SPEED (Fast impact turnaround) program (restructuring focus, business transformation, sales push initiative, responsible for the SPEED Managers worldwide, benchmarking and implementation of data basis: best practice sharing, implementation of balanced scorecard and market intelligence system)
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Head of marketing
Siemens AG Center of E-excellence
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Center of E-Excellence, Siemens AG
Overall responsibility for marketing and communications. Objective: Transformation of Siemens into an e-driven company – holistic business transformation project marketed internally and externally to clients -
Vice President Marketing, Sales and Communications
Siemens Health Insurance
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
April 1998 — August 2000 (2 years 5 months)
Siemens Health Insurance: VP marketing,sales & comms; creation of a marketing & sales system
Membership development 1997: stagnation/falling; 1998: +2%, 1999: +4%, 2000 6%,
Sales DM5 billion; budget: DM5 million
3 employees reporting in disciplinary matters, 20 employees in non-disciplinary matters
New positioning of SBK; restructured the organization, modified the Corporate Design, implemented a Corporate Identity; New Media: Conception, development & relaunch of the Internet/intranet sites, introduction of CRM; “Best health insurer in 1999/2000“ (market research institute)
Parallel to that: Management Learning Program S 3 (1/99 - 7/01) (internal MBA program)
Project leader: “New forms of cooperation between Siemens & innovative small/medium-sized companies (SMEs)“ initiation of a new partnership between Siemens and an SME in the field of navigation, image implementation for knee implants, implementation of balanced scorecard (sponsor: Siemens CEO Dr. Heinrich v. Pierer) -
Product Manager
Novartis
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1991 — 1998 (7 years)
Product management on a national and international basis
Venoruton (key money-maker with DM120M European sales 1996): Marketing activities: European campaign, TV commercial, repositioned in direction of self-medication, international marketing plan.
Nicotinell: mid-term forecast planning; new positioning for
switch to prescription free.
Rhinomer (best new product in Zyma’s history): successful European-wide concept and implementation. -
Assistant of Executive Management
Böhme
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1987 — 1991 (4 years)
Main responsibilities: hosting visitors, organizing meetings, translating contracts, training apprentices in English. Additional tasks: image campaign, PR.
09/87 – 02/88 Sideline job: freelance writer at Siemens Telecommunications (English and Spanish);
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Monika Altmaier’s Interests:
classic music, swimming, WATSU, sailing, virtual teaming and collaboration, internationalization topics, marketing across cultures, networking, global leadership issues, change management, intercultural awareness
Monika Altmaier’s Honors:
Keynote speaker Asia Pacific: Going virtual conference: the Future of work in Brisbane, Australia in 2005
Was nominated juror for the 2006 European Logo Design Annual 2006 please see http://www.eulda.com
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