Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Häcker Kitchens is stepping up the pace of its growth and has created two new executive positions to strengthen its team. Simon Hartwich will be joining the company as new director of human resources on November 1, 2016, followed by Gisela Rehm as new marketing director one month later.
Häcker Kitchens has created two new areas of responsibility in HR and marketing to underpin its expansion activities, which it will continue to push ahead with in both domestic and export mar-kets. Exactly 220 new members of staff have been hired since 2015 alone, and the company currently employs 1,400 people at its Rödinghausen site. The newly created director of human re-sources position is intended to further professionalise HR man-agement and development at both national and international level. Simon Hartwich will be responsible for this department and thus complete the team from November 1, 2016.
The 32-year-old psychology graduate studied at Bielefeld Uni-versity. For the last two years he was head of the HR team at August Storck in Halle, prior to which he spent three years as HR officer at Follmann Chemie in Minden. At Storck, he was respon-sible for the HR department, introduced a management develop-ment concept and conducted training courses on leadership cul-ture. Mr Hartwich also took care of the changing needs of trainee staff by devising and introducing e-learning tools for apprentices.
“We are delighted to have found such an implementation-ori-ented, entrepreneurially-minded HR director. With his positive outlook, Mr Hartwich is an asset for our family company,” says managing director Jochen Finkemeier.
Gisela Rehm is the new Marketing Director
One month later, on December 1, 2016, the second new executive position will be filled when Gisela Rehm joins the company. Together with approx. 30 other members of staff, she will develop new strategies and impetus for marketing, expand training activities and continue to grow the already strong planning department. Karsten Bäumer continues to be in charge of communications and PR.
At Häcker Kitchens, Ms Rehm will be able to build on her wide-ranging experience in the kitchen industry, where she has worked at both national and international level. As head of mar-keting at SMEG Hausgeräte GmbH, her responsibilities included the company’s marketing strategy for Germany and Austria. Ms Rehm also launched the SMEG Academy, which offers training courses and programmes for dealers, conducted promotions at the point of sale and sparked consumers’ enthusiasm for the company’s household appliances with a cookery school. She was also in charge of expanding online marketing activities and establishing a cross-border marketing exchange between inter-national organisations. Previously, Gisela Rehm worked at BSH Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte for 15 years: as product manager for small appliances, she was responsible for the entire product cy-cle – from market analysis and development of the marketing strategy all the way to launch. She also gained international ex-perience as USA sales director at Kitchen Resource.
“We look forward to welcoming Ms Rehm to the company. She is an experienced and creative expert with international experi-ence in our industry,” says Markus Sander, Managing Director Sales and Marketing at Häcker Kitchens. “With this breath of fresh air and our successful team, we will continue to press ahead with our marketing, training and planning activities.” Markus concluded.
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