Petra Steiner Email Address

Senior Director Human Resources Benelux, Eastern Europe and DACH

The Zumtobel Group, based in Dornbirn in the Vorarlberg region of Austria, is one of the few global players in the lighting industry. The Group, which started life as Elektrogerate und Kunstharzpresswerk W. Zumtobel KG in 1950, employed a workforce of 7,814 full-time equivalent employees on the balance sheet date 30 April 2011 (PY: 7,329) and in the 2010/11 financial year posted consolidated revenues of EUR 1,228.2 million (PY: EUR 1,114.6 million). Within its multi-brand strategy, in the professional luminaire and lighting solution business the Group is represented in the marketplace by the Thorn and the Zumtobel brands. The lighting components' business (control gear, lighting management, LED components / modules) is handled by the Tridonic brand. And since the beginning of 2010 the Group has also been developing a B2C business with innovative LED lamps under the Ledon Lamp brand. The financial year of the Zumtobel Group commences on 1 May and ends on 30 April.

I am a qualified and results driven HR professional with a strong generalist background and over 10 years’ experience. I steer managers through all matters relating to employment: recruitment, integration, probation, performance, disciplinary, grievance, sickness and redundancy. I am an enthusiastic pro-active individual with excellent interpersonal, organisational and IT skills who strives for continuous improvement and embraces challenges. Specialties: Employee Relations inc Absence, Disciplinaries, Grievances, Performance Management, Redundancies, Process Improvement, Recruiting, Competency based selection, working with people, organising and getting things done, Employee Policies, SAP & BI, Native in German, Fluent in English, Training of Management in Recruiting, Target setting, coaching discussions etc.