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Peter Szilagyi

Peter Szilagyi

HR Professional
Budapest,BU

Summary

Senior Human Resources Leader with over 18 years of experience in multiple HR functions and industries (manufacturing, telecommunication) leading multi-cultural teams across Europe and US. Possess a professional passion for leadership, innovation, value creation, improve efficiency, and change management.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
18
18
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

People Experience Strategic Lead - Employment

Nokia
01.2021 - Current
  • Global People Experience stakeholder for employment-related activities / HR processes and policies
  • Coordinate activities for employment global programs (remote work global implementation, flexible work options, external temporary labor compliance, etc) in close cooperation with CoE and Legal & Compliance.

Head of HR Central Europe & Central Asia

Nokia
1 2021 - Current
  • Scope: 20 countries
  • Act as key HR representative in the region
  • Lead a multicultural and diverse team of seasoned country HRs and global SMEs
  • Provide strategic HR insight, trustful guidance and feasible solutions for people matters
  • Close cooperation with business, HR Operation, labor representatives and external entities
  • Advise stakeholders about the frame of local legislation, support localization of global initiatives
  • Drives activities related to labor compliance and HR related audits
  • Support to solve complex labor law, compliance, ethic and disciplinary cases
  • Actively works on improving employee engagement and employer branding together with business and other internal stakeholders
  • Supports collective labor agreement negotiations for countries in scope.

Head of Payroll North America & Europe

Nokia
05.2014 - 12.2020
  • Leading a diverse team located in multiple time-zones
  • Global payroll concept and strategy
  • Global payroll setup aiming for simplification, standardization and digitalization
  • Global vendor management with strategic partners
  • Audit / SOX / KPI / Compliance management
  • Drive regional outsource activities, coordinates other regions activities for payroll outsourcing
  • Cooperation with regional HR teams, CoE, Digital team for global project.

Head of HR Operation West & South Europe

Nokia
01.2011 - 05.2014
  • Leading a diverse team with team members across Europe
  • Key role in designing, implementing and developing HR shared service operations in the region in order to provide efficient solutions with a positive customer experience
  • Harmonization and standardization of HR MoOs for the region
  • M&A management / restructuring
  • Change management
  • Global / regional HR operation projects.

HR Operations Head, Central Europe

Nokia Siemens Networks
05.2006 - 12.2010
  • HR experience with the manufacturing / factory environment
  • Team lead, people management
  • Coordinate HR aspects of the company divestment and integration into the new entity
  • Develop a subregional HR service center
  • Support change management activities and competence / knowledge transfer
  • Design, standardization, harmonization and implementation of HR policies and processes
  • Payroll vendor management and operative management
  • Coordinate C&B tasks and personnel administration
  • Global project coordination in the subregion (restructuring, new sales incentive model, leading system implementation, payroll outsourcing for the subregion).

Country HR Manager, Slovakia

Nokia Siemens Networks
03.2007 - 11.2009
  • Coordinate country people agenda activities to improve employee engagement and employer branding
  • Change management and restructuring
  • Provide local legal & compliance expertise
  • Lead local worker council negotiations
  • Support local recruitment and talent management.

Country HR Director

Magyar Cukor (Südzucker/Agrana)
01.2004 - 05.2006
  • Experience with the manufacturing environment
  • Manage local collective labor agreement
  • Teamlead, people management
  • Country legal & compliance
  • Resource management (recruitment, restructuring)
  • Project management (competence review, HR cost savings, payroll outsourcing, etc)
  • Change management.

Payroll and Benefits Manager

Waterworks Bp (Suez/RWE)
01.2002 - 01.2004
  • Teamlead
  • Compliance (tax, labor law)
  • Roll-out company compensation & benefit programs.

Education

Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Leadership and Management / Finance

University of Miskolc
01.1992 - 04.1997

Postgraduate Studies On Jurisprudence - Civil law / Labor law

University of Miskolc
Hungary
01.1997 - 04.2002

Adaptable Leader Program
01.2017 - 01.2024

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Strategic Leadership Program

Skills

HR Operations

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Certification

Aligning Customer Experience with Company Culture

Timeline

People Experience Strategic Lead - Employment

Nokia
01.2021 - Current

Adaptable Leader Program
01.2017 - 01.2024

Head of Payroll North America & Europe

Nokia
05.2014 - 12.2020

Head of HR Operation West & South Europe

Nokia
01.2011 - 05.2014

Country HR Manager, Slovakia

Nokia Siemens Networks
03.2007 - 11.2009

HR Operations Head, Central Europe

Nokia Siemens Networks
05.2006 - 12.2010

Country HR Director

Magyar Cukor (Südzucker/Agrana)
01.2004 - 05.2006

Payroll and Benefits Manager

Waterworks Bp (Suez/RWE)
01.2002 - 01.2004

Postgraduate Studies On Jurisprudence - Civil law / Labor law

University of Miskolc
01.1997 - 04.2002

Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Leadership and Management / Finance

University of Miskolc
01.1992 - 04.1997

Head of HR Central Europe & Central Asia

Nokia
1 2021 - Current

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Strategic Leadership Program
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