Work Experience

Beyçelik Gestamp (BG) is a joint venture of Beyçelik Holding and Gestamp Automoción S.A. BG is one of leading automotive suppliers in Turkiye with a revenue around 1 billion $.

People, Technology, Innovation – Director

11/2021 – Present, Beycelik Gestamp (Gestamp Automoción – Beycelik Holding JV), Bursa / İstanbul

Leading business support functions in 6 different sites in Turkey & Romania:

• Human Resources: Serving 4500+ employees with ~60 HR professionals.
• Information Technologies: Providing solutions for all information and communication technology needs of operations with ~40 IT professionals. Managing some IT services centrally for other companies of Beyçelik Holding.
• Health & Safety: Providing day-to-day H&S support in all locations with ~30 H&S professionals.
• Innovation: Coordinating research activities in 4 R&D and Design Centers, managing corporate innovation endeavors
• Corporate Communication: Managing internal and external communication of the company
• Sustainability Management: Coordinating sustainability program of the company

Major Challenges Addressed

• Oversaw establishment of HR and IT services in four new plants from 2022 to 2024.
• Successfully scaled the organization from 3,800 to 5,800 employees in line with the expansion plan of the company, then downsized to 4,500 to support optimization of operations.
• Enhanced IT organization’s maturity by implementing new service management processes compliant with ISO 20000. Reconfigured the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and initiated agile transformation in software development area.
• Launched multiple initiatives to bolster the technological infrastructure, such as deploying ransomware-protected backup systems, central security monitoring service, fifth-generation security suite, transitioning to SD-WAN, reconfiguring network and system topology, establishing a remote disaster recovery center, and migrating the data center to a private cloud.
• Run many initiatives to optimize the application portfolio to reduce the cost base while maintaining high operational standards.
• Drove digital transformation of the organization by introducing new technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), advanced image processing, digital twin etc.
• Spearheaded various organizational and cultural change initiatives to align the organization with its new strategic direction.
• Strengthened the company’s sustainability stance through several initiatives, including implementing a monitoring and reporting system and energy management solutions, engaging with the UN Global Compact and Responsible Business Alliance (RBA).
• Provided support to a (failed) initiative to acquire a German automotive supplier for 3 months in 2023.

Tofaş is a joint venture of Koç Holding and Stellantis Group, and a leading firm in automotive industry with 4 billion $ revenue. It incorporates one of the largest R&D centers of the Stellantis in the world and a car manufacturing plant with 450 K annual capacity. It also conducts all commercial operations for Stellantis Group brands in Turkiye.

HR – Group Manager

10/2014 – 10/2021, 7 yrs in Tofas (Stellantis – Koc Group JV), Bursa / İstanbul

Head of an agile department (consisting of 25 HR professionals) responsible for

• managing all HRM (early talent engagement, recruitment/placement, integration, internal communication, target deployment, performance and competency management, development, assessment, retention, noncompliance, total rewards, payroll, employee relations, strategic HR partnership) for the white-collar workforce (~1700),
• developing HR policies, systems and overall employee experience for the entire workforce (~7.000)
• developing organizational structure, culture and innovation practices

Featured Projects:

• “Agile Transformation Program”, which was piloted in a set of volunteer departments in 2020 and had been deployed to 1/3 of the company in order to develop organizational ambidexterity and agility.
• “Best-Fit Talent (Success) Profiles” and “Internal Assessment Center Program” for selecting external talents, potentials and leaders.
• “Strategic HRBP Transformation”, which aimed to create an action-driven HRBP team capable of designing and delivering individual, team and inter-team level interventions in order to quickly handle a high variety of organizational issues raised by the management.
• “Customized Talent Development Program”, which incorporates various behavioral development sub-programs such as coaching, developmental counseling, mentoring, reverse mentoring and team coaching. (The program received 1) EMCC 2019 Coaching Award, 2) Brandon Hall 2020 Bronze Award – Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring, 3) Stevie for Great Employers 2018 Bronze Award – Workforce Development)
• “Employee Experience Design Program” based on a custom-developed “Human-Centric Design (HCD)” methodology, which blends “Design Thinking” and “Agile” approaches. (The program received Brandon Hall 2020 Gold Award – Best Approach to HCM Innovation)
• “Human-Centric Innovation Program”, which is designed to support company wide innovation programs

Skills:

Talent Management, Employee Relations, Coaching, Team Coaching, Developmental Counseling, Human-Centric Design, Design Thinking, Human-Centric Innovation, Employee Experience Management, Scaled Agility, Scrum, Corporate Innovation Management

IT – Manager (Project and Enterprise Application Portfolio)

08/2009 – 09/2014, 5yrs & 3 mos in Tofas (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles – Koc Group JV), Bursa / İstanbul

Within the scope of common functions and commercial domain:

• Developed process and information systems strategies together with line business heads and created long and short term investment plans based on these strategies.
• Designed ICT (Information & Communication Technology) initiatives; managed the portfolio of initiatives (from development of detailed functional and technical specifications to implementation phases of the solutions.) Most significant of these projects include SAP based implementations (FI, CO, IM, PS, MM, PP, PM, SEM, SD, HCM, BPC, Global Trade)
• Managed life cycle of existing enterprise application portfolio.
• Led a permanent (on-payroll) team of 4-8 analysts and project managers. Size of the project based temp (off-payroll) team varied significantly in line with the progress of the projects (10-150 FTE) Managed many multinational project teams.

 Featured Projects:

• Commercial (sales, parts, services) Systems renewal and Dealer Management System implementation (Budget: 4,5 M€) 2014
• E-Transformation (e-invoice, e-ledger, Enterprise Content Management) (Budget: 700 K€) 2013
• Financial Planning System, based on SAP BPC (Budget: 600 K€) 2012
• HR Information System, based on SAP HCM (Budget: 1.2 M€) 2011- 2013
• ERP replacement, which includes SAP: FI, CO, IM, PS, MM, PP, PM, SEM, SD (Budget: 7 M€), 2010- 2011

Skills:

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Program Management, SAP, Business Analysis, Application Life Cycle Management, Logistic and Financial Processes,

Business Excellence – Manager

03/2009 – 07/2009, 6 mos in Tofas (Fiat Auto – Koc Group JV), Bursa / İstanbul

Led design and implementation of a lean management and organizational excellence program, which is called World Class Company (WCC), for entire value chain.

Skills:

Operational Excellence, Lean Manufacturing

OD & Strategy – Manager

08/2006 – 02/2009, 2 yrs & 8 mos in Tofas (Fiat Auto – Koc Group JV), Bursa / İstanbul

Utilized OD practices to assess, diagnose, design, lead, and deliver solutions needed to enhance organizational effectiveness, build organizational capability and address various business issues of the company. Led a cultural transformation project (2007-2009) Coordinated enterprise wide strategy deployment and annual business planning processes. Designed and managed processes and systems for measuring and evaluating organizational and human resources performance based on Balanced Scorecard. Carried out workforce requirements planning, Managed job analysis and evaluation (grading) studies based on Hay Group methodology. Led a project for redesigning grading structure of the company (2008)

Skills:

Organizational Change Management, Organization Development, Strategic Planning, Strategy Deployment, Business Planning, Job Evaluation, Group Facilitation

OD – Specialist

07/2002 – 07/2006, 4 yrs in Tofas (Fiat Auto – Koc Group JV), Bursa / İstanbul

Assisted function heads in identifying opportunities and performance gaps of their divisions and translating them into organization, process and human capital architecture. Led various re-organization and process re-engineering projects. The most comprehensive of these studies include a crash program for enterprise-wide organizational transformation (2006) and a project for formulating an organizational structure and process framework for carrying out new product development and maintenance studies (2003 – 2004) Led studies regarding redefinition of company’s process management framework and process KPIs (2005) Carried out workforce requirement analysis in order to support workforce planning of business divisions. Involved in installation and administration of various talent management systems (performance management, behavioral & technical competency management, potential management…etc).

Skills:

Organizational Design, Organizational Performance Management, Hoshin Kanri, Organizational Excellence Models, Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)