Timm Suess

Responsible for employer branding, employee engagement, HR controlling, and Compensation & Benefits. Member of the HR leadership team and leading of a team of 3 people.

Responsible for corporate HR projects and HR project portfolio, including company-wide employee engagement programs, HR policy, employer value proposition activities, new HR controlling and sales training approaches.

Responsible for process standardization, training and certification across franchises and clients; member of the strategy team during ongoing re-organization; participation in ideation projects for various clients

Process management for salary reviews, benchmarking and stock option programs of Novartis Pharma AG's top 200 executives; project management for international assignment applications. HR representative in the Novartis Social Media Catalyst team, advising Novartis' Chief Operating Officer on the strategy and implementation of Social Media internally and externally. Implementation of blogging and microblogging platforms, wikis, social networks, patient communities.

Rotation program Drug Development, incl: Staffing Manager (recruitment of scientists, defining recruitment strategy, interviews, selection, salary negotiation, contract preparation); HR Generalist (talent sourcing programs, employer value propositions; stress prevention campaigns); Compensation Manager (global job families and bands; offer tracking software; benchmark analysis); Organization Development (Co-lead in major assessment of project team performance)

New conception of of annual HR strategic plans; led the HR strategic planning process for 2 years; participation in an HR-internal organizational re-design project; conception and co-ordination of the Novartis HR Board and HR Leadership meetings; proposed, developed, and implemented communication campaigns for Corporate HR; led the global introduction of socially responsible basic living wages in all Novartis country organizations; led special projects and was the ghostwriter for the Global Head of HR

Established the HR Communications department as part of an autonomous team; developed, programmed and introduced several very successful HR intranets; planning, branding and roll-out of the first global employee survey; workstream lead in a major SAP-HR project; managed the Global Pharma Team Awards 2003 process and event; global introduction of Open Space Technology (meeting technique); created branding, website design and brochures for the roll-out of an HR career development program

co-led the introduction and change management for the introduction of the Novartis Staffing Center in Basel; as part of a task force, defined and introduced the revised local exit processes; proposal, programming and roll-out of decentralized mass mailing system for HR Switzerland; recruitment of scientists for HR Research & Development

Evaluation of organizational climate and internal work processes; recruitment and on-boarding of new employees; management of the freelancer network; research, consulting of the CEO and training of employees in new creativity techniques; planning of organizational development projects and process re-designs; moderator and team member of an international creative team in London for project with C&A; member of creative teams for clients such as the SVV, Laurastar, Neckermann and Mediamarkt.

HR and Statistics Consultant, Basel City Police Department (Feb 1998 / Mar 1999): Statistical analysis, evaluation of and recommendations on employee satisfaction surveys; Researcher, Statistics Commission of the University Basel, Aug 1996: Collection, evaluation and reporting of statistics needs of 70 university institute heads; presentation of research findings to university statistics commission; IT Consultant & Supporter, Comix AG, Feb 1996 - Jul 2000: Setup, programming and maintenance of databases

Creation of competency profiles for police officers, conception of an assessment center, leadership development & coaching, hostage situation training

various temporary assignments