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Susanne Whyte

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Summary

15+ years’ experience as a Global HR professional with extensive experience in Global HR policy & operations, employee relations, reward & recognition, HR mergers & acquisition, transformational change, organizational effectiveness and talent management & development. Strong ability to lead, engage and inspire teams. Extensive experience in business partnerships with senior leaders and executives to align HR with business strategy. Collaborative and authentic leadership style with high degree of integrity, professionalism and attention to detail.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
2004
2004
years of post-secondary education

Work history

People Consultant Lead

Google EMEA HQ
Dublin
2018.12 - 2024.04
  • People Consultant lead accountable for delivering exceptional 'human touch' consultative support at scale to Google employees, Managers and leaders
  • Led a business aligned pan EMEA People Consultant team supporting on Strategic people priorities, large scale transformational efforts and day to day support across Google's HR lines of service in EMEA
  • Served as a trusted partner and advisor to EMEA Business HR leads on EMEA HR compliance, ensuring integration of policies, processes and programs were in alignment with overall people priorities
  • Acted at the primary POC representing EMEA PC team in all work related to the service lines of the business aligned People Consultant team, primarily performance, Talent, Org Design, Reward & Risk.

Accomplishments

  • Driving Performance Culture: Activated a performance management process deep dive across EMEA region to ground core performance philosophy and optimize current lines of service to support the organisations key focus on performance lines of service.
  • New Entity expansion: Led a team of people consultants to coordinate employee migration to new strategic location business entities across UK & Ireland, France, Germany, Poland, Israel and Saudi.
  • Global Compensation: Developed localized strategy for implementation of compensation changes across EMEA for Google Cloud Sales including strategy for Workers Council engagement

Global People Partner Lead

Google EMEA HQ, Google Technical Services (gTech)
2016.03 - 2018.12
  • People Partner lead supporting senior leaders in Google's Global Technical Services organisation to enable their people strategy to deliver value for the business
  • Provided thought leadership and leadership coaching regarding organisational and people related strategy and execution
  • Partnered with leaders to define, design, launch and land key change initiatives
  • Acted as a key trusted advisor across organisational design, talent management, performance management, leadership coaching, strategy development and employee relations to business leads in the EMEA region.

Accomplishments:

  • Leading org design and implementation strategy for launch of an on demand service model in the EMEA region which involved pivoting org structure + teams to areas of specialism in product and engineering across 14 regions in EMEA. Led design of manager intervention workshops to help managers lead more effectively through change which built the foundations for Google’s current change program ‘Leading Through Change’ framework.
  • Building a comprehensive people program which aimed to increase technical capability across the Google Technical Services organsition. Developed a Global Learning strategy in H2 2016 which saw O ladder hiring increase by 50%

Benefits Manager EMEA

Google EMEA HQ, Dublin
2009.10 - 2016.03
  • Regional Benefits Leader responsible for region-wide strategic management and delivery of the benefits programs across 13 countries spanning Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • Managed the full scope of in-country benefits, driving the strategy for programs including health, retirement, leave, life, accident, disability, wellness, and ancillary programs across Physical, Financial, and Emotional wellness pillars.

Accomplishments:

  • Designed and implemented Google’s first EMEA based onsite wellness centers in Dublin & London aimed at providing preventative health services to ~5000 Google employees.
  • Launched ‘Optimize your Life’ wellbeing program to support Google employees increase their financial awareness across Google’s suite of financial programs in addition to offering a range of targeted wellness programs aimed at supporting employees' physical and emotional wellbeing.

Head of Compensation & Benefits, Policy & HR Services (Europe)

CIT Financial Services
Dublin
2005.02 - 2008.06
  • Provided a range of coordination and consultancy services in the reward area alongside Policy & HR Services for the European region.

Head of Human Resources - Pioneer Alternative Investments

Pioneer Investments (now Almundi)
Dublin
2001.01 - 2004.01
  • Plan, directed and controlled all day to day human resource activities including, HR Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Compensation & Benefits, Employee Relations, HR Information Services, Organisational Development & Learning for the alternative investment division for Ireland UK, USA, Israel, and Bermuda.

Education

MBS Human Resource Strategy (Hons) -

Dublin City University

B.A International Marketing & Languages (Hons) - undefined

Dublin City University

Languages

German
Advanced
French
Elementary

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

People Consultant Lead

Google EMEA HQ
2018.12 - 2024.04

Global People Partner Lead

Google EMEA HQ, Google Technical Services (gTech)
2016.03 - 2018.12

Benefits Manager EMEA

Google EMEA HQ, Dublin
2009.10 - 2016.03

Head of Compensation & Benefits, Policy & HR Services (Europe)

CIT Financial Services
2005.02 - 2008.06

Head of Human Resources - Pioneer Alternative Investments

Pioneer Investments (now Almundi)
2001.01 - 2004.01

B.A International Marketing & Languages (Hons) - undefined

Dublin City University

MBS Human Resource Strategy (Hons) -

Dublin City University

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