Title: Director of Human Resources

Company: FAO

Location: Rome, Italy

Monika Altmaier is an experienced and highly qualified manager and marketing and HR-strategist with proven success records that have spanned both multinational organizations and medium sized enterprises. She has more than 20 years of international experience in communications, commercial, sales, marketing and consultancy in the pharmaceutical and service industries in headquarter and countries. She utilizes her strong business decision-making abilities, as well as her strong integration and interpersonal skills on a daily basis. She has a decidedly entrepreneurial mindset and sense of responsibility for the company as a whole. Due to her long career, she has a unique blend of expertise in many different categories such as the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, health care, insurance and IT sector. She developed and implemented single-market, pan-regional/European and global solutions and has continuously improved profitability. In five years, Ms. Altmaier plans to continue growing as a director.

Among the many achievements of her career, a notable one to mention was the successful launch of a comprehensive image campaign, it was the best launch ever for product management in the pharmaceutical industries. It was the relaunch of a health insurer from private to public sales approach, where she had the overall responsibility of marketing and sales. Additionally, she was involved with the transformation for a global player to become an e-driven- company, with the overall responsibility of marketing and communications. She worked in HR transformation and refocusing in one of the UN Operations Organizations, which involved repositioning HR to a well accepted and honored service and business partner in one of the UN Organizations.

Ms. Altmaier’s separates herself from her peers by being fluent in five global languages, having worldwide professional experience in more than 20 countries, and profound career experience in private industries combined with now more than seven years of institutional experience in nonprofit organizations. Additionally, she has vast experience in broad conferences and global events. Furthermore, as a HR professional director, she combines this skill set with strong marketing and communications skills to allow for successful progression in her career. Furthermore, Ms. Altmaier has extensive international experience in seven cultures (Spain, France, Great Britain, U.S., Latin America, Asia, Scandinavia and Germany). She is regularly asked to speak at International events.