Petra Marešová

• Organizational Redesign & Change Management: Led corporate reorganizations and mass layoffs; coached managers through restructuring conversations to maintain employee morale during transitions.
• Job Architecture & Strategy Implementation: Spearheaded regional rollout of Job Architecture framework, consulting with leadership to map legacy roles into updated job families, career levels, and standardized titles.
• Performance, Talent & Compensation Realignment: Drove the corporate performance management process and quarterly check-ins; directed localized salary harmonization, establishing data-driven pay bands and salary ranges based on market benchmarks.
• HR Operations, Advisory & Employee Relations: Partnered with managers in final-stage recruitment using structured behavioral interviews; oversaw onboarding and offboarding processes, updated HR policies, and ensured labor law compliance.

Oversaw HR operations in Northern Europe for 6 months. - Served as trusted advisor to regional managers, aligning corporate guidelines with local team needs in a fast-paced tech environment. - Managed daily HR operations and employee lifecycle processes, including smooth onboarding for new hires and structured offboarding procedures. - Maintained accurate employee records and HR databases, preparing employment documentation (contracts, amendments, termination agreements) in compliance with local policies. - Acted as the primary point of contact for employees on HR policies, labor law questions, benefits administration, and general inquiries.

• Administered employee onboarding and orientation processes for new hires.
• Coordinated training programs to enhance employee skills and knowledge.
• Managed employee records and maintained HR databases for accuracy.

• Acted as a trusted consultant to management, driving the performance management process, advising on compensation structures, and managing sensitive employee relations including termination procedures.
• Evaluated and updated organizational HR policies and procedures, ensuring strict compliance with labor legislation while adapting local workflows to fit corporate aims.
• Served as the Project Lead (CZ/SK) for the Workday Absence implementation, managing local system workflows, configuration adjustments, and user training.
• Coordinated end-to-end learning and development (L&D) initiatives, collaborating with management to design and implement effective training programs for all staff.
• Oversaw HR operations, coordinating payroll for Czech Republic and Slovakia, managing recruitment pipelines, and streamlining onboarding/offboarding processes.
• Maintained core HRIS tools and systems (Workday, Taleo), extracting data to generate regular and ad-hoc analytics to support executive decision-making.
• Acted as primary stand-in for HR Manager during absence, aligning daily operations with organizational goals and enhancing strategic HR partnership with company leadership.

- Managed employee lifecycle data entry and workflows in Workday, ensuring accurate and timely updates for hirings, terminations, and compensation adjustments.

- Served as point of contact for Workday, guiding managers on absence management, performance management, and other platform functionalities.

- Generated customized Workday reports to deliver essential data inputs for finance, payroll, and recruitment teams.

• Facilitated the onboarding process by supporting new joiners and preparing contracts.
• Preparation of documents related to the employee life-cycle
• Handled the termination and leavers process.
• Managing administration related to attendance, reports for payroll and finance
• Providing general HR advice for all internal employees and management
• Ensure all HR processes & policies are continuously and accurately implemented
• Coordinated employees' benefits.
• Support in visa process of candidates (documents prepared, collecting, communication with visa agency)
• 1 yr 8 mos
• Facilitated offboarding to ensure smooth transitions , Assisted with payroll processing and management and Developed multiple skills relevant to HR functions

• Ensure data integrity, report writing and analyse data flows.
• Monitoring recruitment process and preparing detailed reports and analyses for top management.
• Making suggestions based on the generated reports.
• 6 mos

• Recruitment of candidates, interviews with candidates. Onboarding, new hire orientation sessions.
• Responsibility for all the process of converting temporary agency employees to full-time Amazon employees incl. planning conversion sessions, completing documents.
• Providing personal, payroll and labour law advise to employees.
• Cooperation with payroll department.
• Creation of contracts, terminations, dealing with work and non-work accidents and medical checks
• 6 mos

• Responsibility for preparing payroll spreadsheet of team (KPI bonuses, attendance).
• Preparing presentations and reports.
• Organising director's calendar and meetings.
• Leading the claim meeting of VIP clients.
• 1 yr

• Assisted in planning and organizing corporate events for client engagement.
• Coordinated logistics, including venue selection and catering arrangements.

• Dealing with customer enquiries.
• Communication with suppliers, making orders, invoices, offers in SQL Ekonom.
• Communication with potential customers, making price calculations.
• Closely co-operation with a Purchase Department and Sales Director.
• 11 mos