Christian Adlung


Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Global Strategic Advisor | Bremen, Germany
Christian Adlung brings to Jeitosa’s Europe operations more than 20 years of experience in information technology, development and project leadership of payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) systems. Christian has over 15 years experience in a global/EMEA business environment with significant experience working with large corporations on HCM service models and business process reengineering.
Highlights
- Over 20 years experience, including 15 in a global/EMEA business environment, in IT,development and project leadership of payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) systems.
- Strong experience working with large corporations on EMEA/global HCM service models and business process reengineering that that deliver superior customer service and employee satisfaction.
- Built and expanded the HCM consultancy division of a major payroll company in Germany, UK, Latin-America.
- Operational responsibility for a German payroll outsourcing division.
- Business development responsibility for Convergys Employee Care for EMEA.
Accomplishments
- ConvaTec: Led european rollout of a global Workday implementation. This includes the project oversight for the implementation in 27 European countries, as well as the facilitation of the European Works Council discussions and the strategic support for the client’s european leadership team.
- Sealed Air: Had responsiblity for the strategic HR support of the european HR leadership team, including the responsibility for the international HR and payroll situation assessment, the global HCM system/services selection, the global SSC location assessment as well as the global HR business process definitions.
- VWR: Managed part of the european rollout of a global Workday implementation. This included the project oversight for the implementation in 20+ european countries, as well as the facilitation of the European Works Council discussions and the strategic support for the client’s european leadership team.
- H.B.Fuller: Facilitated the discussions with the German Works Council for a global Workday implementation.
- Flextronics: Facilitated the discussions with the German Works Council for a global Workday implementation.
- TDWilliamson: Led global Workday Comp implementation.
- ADP: Built and expanded the HR and payroll consultancy division of ADP in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina und Chile) as well as in the UK. In addition to fostering ADP´s in-house HR products, implementation projects of PeopleSoft´s HCM products, SAP, Oracle and Meta4 were also carried out.
- Convergys: Had joint responsibility, as part of the european leadership team, for 200+ employees in Europe and a budget of 50+ M€. This included the Sales, Implementation and Operations teams in the EMEA region.
- DISCUS Informationssyteme GmbH: Built up into a successful consulting company particularly in PAISY payroll consulting.
Competencies
StrategicStrategic Planning Vision/Value Definition Business Case Development Business Process Optimization Global Organization Design Program/Project Management Change Management Global Mindset/Cultural Diversity Global Data Privacy Shared Services Sourcing Strategies Data Warehousing |
FunctionalHuman Capital Management Position Management Payroll Management Recruiting Management Competency Management Performance Management Succession Management Learning Management Workforce Planning |
TechnicalADP Payroll PeopleSoft/Oracle Workday TalentSoft Data Modeling Data Conversion Database Design Relational Databases System Integration |
Publications
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Europe-A Recovering Economy and the War for Talent | December 2010
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Europe-The Male/Female Salary Gap | March 2010
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HRinsights-Regional Update: SaaS Adoption in Europe | February 2010HRinsights-Regional Update: SaaS Adoption in Europe | February 2010 |
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Talent Management…Talk Versus Action | January 2010
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Europe- Holiday Time…A Time to Relax? | December 2009
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Works Councils…Some Useful Considerations | November 2009
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Europe-Summertime…And the living is Easy? | September 2009
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Europe-HR Shared Services Model or the Battle of the Shores | June 2009
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HRinsights-Regional Update: May-The Wedding Season in Europe | May 2009
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Europe-April Weather in the European Economy | April 2009
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HRinsights-Regional Update: Europe-Global Payroll: Dream or Reality? | March 2009
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What’s Changing in the HR Landscape in Europe? | May 2007
Credentials
- Degree in Computer Science from the University of Bremen
- Fluent in English and German, and basic knowledge of Portuguese
- Trained in Workday HCM, PeopleSoft-HRMS, PeopleTools, PeopleCode, TalentSoft



