Bernd Dobbeck

Bernd Dobbeck

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VP People & Culture
Bavaria, Germany

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  • Sport Alliance GmbH
    VP People & Culture
    Sport Alliance GmbH
    Sep 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)
    Strengthened and scaled the People & Culture function for an international technology business with approximately 400 employees across Europe, Australia, and the US, with a focus on leadership effectiveness, performance, talent processes, and business alignment.
    - Designed a scalable end-to-end people lifecycle covering performance, calibration, compensation, development conversations, and engagement insights; reduced review effort by 50% and supported the first timely, in-budget compensation review, improving perceived fairness by 13%
    - Helped move the function from largely manual HR processes to a more digital People model, including practical use of AI across performance, learning, engagement, and talent acquisition
    - Supp
  • Cazoo
    Director HR EU
    Cazoo
    Dec 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 4 months)
    Led the People agenda for a high-growth international business through rapid scale-up, acquisition-driven expansion, and subsequent market exit across multiple European countries (900 employees across Germany, France, Spain, and Italy)
    - Supported rapid scale-up from 500 to 900 employees in six months while strengthening onboarding and operational foundations
    - Improved onboarding and early employee experience, reducing first-three-month turnover from 50% to below 10%
    - Integrated acquired businesses in France, Spain, and Italy within three months
    - Following the board decision to exit continental Europe, led complex consultation and wind-down processes across four countries within five months with strong legal and stake
  • KPIT
    Senior Director Human Resources
    KPIT
    Dec 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year)
    Advancing the Human Resources function in Europe: 600 employees in several locations (Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Italy)
    - Build a trusted relationship with local / global Leadership team and Indian Headquarter as a base to craft a local culture
    - Analyse, align and significantly improve local HR processes according to legal compliance and efficiency (Kurzarbeit, Timetracking, C&B and payroll)
    - Re-design European HR team to improve employee experience
  • posterXXL GmbH
    Vice President People
    posterXXL GmbH
    Aug 2018 - Oct 2020 (2 years 3 months)
    - Create, align and execute a HR agenda focusing on “Employee Experience” and driving business results
    - Establish a trusted relationship with Photobox group (owner of the company)
    - Support the business with state of the art HR tools: from “brilliant basics” to “amazing & sustainable engagement initiatives”
    - Craft a People team which acts as a cultural role model for the organization
    - Restructuring: Handover commercial functions to Photobox Group in UK with locally 60 impacted people.
  • Activision Blizzard
    Director HR
    Activision Blizzard
    Feb 2016 - Jul 2018 (2 years 6 months)
    Activision Blizzard KING is the world's largest interactive gaming company and sits at the vibrant intersection of media, technology, and entertainment.

    Providing generalist consulting to Activision Blizzards Sales and Marketing territories as well as Corporate Functions in Germany, Nordic, Netherlands and Spain regarding employee relations, change management, staffing, performance management, and training & development.

    - Leading the Human Resources organization in the assigned territory
    - Strategic initiatives to drive the European and global HR agenda
    - Working with leadership on business needs and building HR strategies to support those needs, including identifying most effective organization structure,
  • OpenText
    Director Human Resources Central Europe (and FGM)
    OpenText
    Sep 2013 - Jan 2016 (2 years 5 months)
    Responsible for Human Resources in Germany, Austria, Swiss, Eastern Europe and Fast Growing Markets (Russia, U.A.E. and South Africa) with locally 750 employees and globally 8.500 employees.

    OpenText provides Enterprise Information Management software that enables companies of all sizes and industries to manage, secure and leverage their unstructured business information, either in their data center or in the cloud. Over 50,000 companies already use OpenText solutions to unleash the power of their information.
  • Dassault Systèmes
    HR Director EuroCENTRAL
    Dassault Systèmes
    Mar 2012 - Aug 2013 (1 year 6 months)
    Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock-Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported.

    Responsibility for Human Resources in EuroCENTRAL for all legal entities of Dassault Systemes: Recruiting, Operations and Development.
  • Dassault Systèmes
    Senior Manager HR EMEA
    Dassault Systèmes
    Sep 2007 - Feb 2012 (4 years 6 months)
    Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. offers complete 3D software tools that let you create, simulate, publish, and manage your data. SolidWorks products are easy to learn and use, and work together to help you design products better, faster, and more cost-effectively. The SolidWorks focus on ease-of-use allows more engineers, designers and other technology professionals than ever before to take advantage of 3D in bringing their designs to life.

    Get, keep and develop people | Responsible for HR Management in EMEA for the SolidWorks brand (Professional Channel), including Recruitment, Retention and Development.

    Additionally supported VARs (small to mid-size companies across EMEA) in Recruitment and Performance Management.
  • Brainlab
    HR Manager
    Brainlab
    Jun 2004 - Jul 2007 (3 years 2 months)
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  • LudwigMaximiliansUniversität München
    Diplom Volkswirt Univ, International Economics
    LudwigMaximiliansUniversität München
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