This curriculum vitae summarizes the professional experience and qualifications of Karen Anne Mancini. She has over 20 years of experience in human resources management, most recently as the Management Development Manager for an automotive seating company in France, where she is responsible for managing careers and training. Prior to this role, she held various HR leadership positions in Europe, including managing employee development, recruitment, and new plant startups. She is proficient in English, German and French and has a business degree from Anglia Polytechnic University in the UK.

1. Curriculum Vitae
Name: MANCINI, Karen Anne
Address: 6 bis rue Madame, 78000 Versailles, France
Telephone: home: +33 13 02 12 542
Mobile: +33 67 84 07 746
E-Mail: klbbond@yahoo.de
Nationality: British
DOB: 03.08.1964
Work Experience:
Faurecia Automotive Group - Faurecia Seating Product Group (SPG)
Since 01.10.2008 - SPG - Management Development Manager - Support Functions,
Nanterre & Brieres, France
• Responsible for managing the careers and training of all the product groups
managers, in support functions (HR, Finance, Purchasing, and Sales &
Marketing). Directly in charge of France and Germany with world-wide
consolidation. Assisting and validating on recruitment.
• from December 2008 additional duties of HR Project Manager India – green-
field site
01.02.2007 – 30.09.2008 - HR Partner, Soft Product Line Division, Brieres, France
• Responsible HR Partner for the division’s 13 Sites (11 Plants) dealing with all
HR subjects. Manager of 4 direct employees. Also responsible for the
recruitment of all Divisional Positions and the positions for the site of Brieres,
plus the recruitment of the Top Management Positions in all countries or as
support for the Country HR Manager / site Manager. (Countries: France /
Germany / Portugal / Poland / Czech Republic / Tunisia / Romania / Morocco)
• From November 2007 in charge for a new plant launch in Morocco (SOP
March 2008).
01.12.2006 – 31.01.2007 - Management Development and Recruiting Manager, Soft
Product Line Division, Brieres, France.
• Responsible for managing the careers, training and recruitment of the
divisions 480 managers across 12 sites in 7 countries.
01.05.2006 – 30.11.2006 - Employee Empowerment (EE) Country Manager
Slovakia, Faurecia Slovakia s.r.o.
• Short term assignment. Responsible to support the 5 plants in Slovakia, to
deploy EE. Responsible to hire a person and to train them, so they could
take over my position at the end of my assignment. (See EE profile below)
• Between January 2006 and May 2006, I also spent Most of my time in
Slovakia as Interim HR Manager for our site in Lozorno. I employed and then
trained the new, site HR Manager.

2. 01.07.2004 – 30.04.2006 - Employee Empowerment (EE) Coordinator, Neuburg,
Germany.
• The role of a Division Employee Empowerment Manager is to drive the
implementation of Employee Empowerment (EE) within a Division in the
following areas: organisation, management of performance and development
of autonomous teams. (Resp. 7 sites in 6 countries: Germany / Spain /
Portugal / UK / Poland / Slovakia)
01.09.2000 – 30.06.2004 - HR Manager, Faurecia Kunststoffe Automobile Systeme
GmbH, Germany
• Responsible for two sites (total 330 employees) and one R&D centre.
Reporting, interviews and recruitment, compensation and benefits, training
and development, Employee Empowerment in the plant (including training),
temporary workers, employing/supervising all apprentices. Responsible for 2
full time and 4 part time employees.
Gau im bfz
Government supported Training and Development centre (bfz) with a temporary
employment agency (gau). Landshuter Allee, 174, 80637 München, Germany
07.12.1998 – 31.08.2000 - HR Administrator in the temporary employment agency
working in Ingolstadt in the branch office - Schillerstr. 21, 85049 Ingolstadt, Germany
• Wages and salaries, Personnel Management (of all employees from
beginning of contract to the end) and Customers. Invoicing, office
organization, telephone exchange.
Transition Period
01.08.1998 – 07.12.1998
Move from north Germany to south Germany
RS Rohrsan GmbH
Pipe restoration and restructuring Company (with Robots)
01.03.1995 – 31.07.1998 - Commercial Administrator (clerk), Gewerbehof Hövel,
Römerstr. 18, 59075 Hamm, Germany
• Accounting, weekly and monthly budget reports, balance of cash and
monetary transactions, billing of projects, preparatory work for the wages and
salaries (these went out of house to a tax accountant) travel expenses,
purchasing of materials (English speaking suppliers) and holiday planning.
B+L ceramics
Family Business. Tiling
July 1994 – 28.02.1995 - Administrator for the family business, Chelmsford, Essex,
England – Office Hamm, Germany
• Ordering, invoicing and purchasing, accounting.
Furze Hill and the Ivy Hill Hotel
01.01.1990 – 13.07.1994 - Receptionist (2 of the years, part-time while at University)
Writtel Road, Margaretting, Essex, England
Maternity break
October 1987 – April 1990

3. Daughter, Liann Michelle, born 05.10.1987
Senioren Zentrum der Abreiterwohlfahrt
Septmeber 1985 – October 1987 - Care assistant, Bönen, Germany (old peoples
home)
Au-Pair
October 1984 – September 1985 – Dortmund, Germany
Care and responsibility of two children ages one and six
September 1983 – October 1984 - Rome, Itlay
Care and responsibility of two children ages seven and fourteen
Hairdressing Apprenticship - Preston, Lancs, England
June 1980 – September 1983
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
1992 – 1994 - Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford, Essex, England
International Marketing, European Environment, German, Spanish
HND Business and Finance
1975 – 1980 - St. Cuthbert Mayne High School, Preston, Lancs, England
O-Level – History, English
CSE – Math, English Literature, Biology, Religion and Geography
PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES:
Languages : English (Mother-Tongue)
Other languages:
German French Italian
• Reading skills excellent basic – intermediate basic (+)
• Writing skills good/excellent basic – intermediate basic
• Verbal skills excellent basic – Intermediate basic (+)
Social skills and competences:
Managing People. Organization Management. Change Management. Policies and
Tools Deployment. Management Development. Coaching and Counselling.
International HR Management. Team work. Project Management. Managing
Apprentices. Green-Field Start-up.
Technical skills and competences:
Microsoft Office: (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet)
Faurecia Programmes: Magnitude, PIMS, Taleo. Basics in SAP through gau im bfz
Additional information:
My hobbies are reading, travelling – seeing new cultures and meeting new people,
movies and relaxing at the weekend with my family.
Presently, I am learning Italian. As my husband is Italian and we spend a lot of time
in Torino, Italy.