Sabine Weihbrecht

Sabine Weihbrecht

Director HR Service Centre Western Europe Bosch
Sabine Weihbrecht

Holding a Masters degree in International Management completed in cooperation with Bosch, Sabine began her career directly with the company as an HR Business Partner more than 15 years ago. After various roles spanning from strategic HR partnership to sales, she took on leadership responsibility within the HR Service, initially in recruiting. Today, as Director of HR Services Centre in Lisbon, she leads teams providing HR services to mainly Western Europe. She is passionate about the challenge of bringing global HR strategies to life in local practice.

SSOWOMEN Leadership Day & Excellence Labs: May 18th, 2026

2:30 PM CASE STUDY: FROM EFFICIENCY TO RESILIENCE: A ROADMAP TO TRULY GLOBAL HR

Global HR is at a crossroads. Organisations dream of seamless, end-to-end processes, but reality is messy, fragmented systems. Local laws, and cultural differences stand in the way. For long, the answer was efficiency. But optimizing for a perfect, predictable world has created fragile systems that break under pressure. The true breakthrough isn't just new technology, it's a new mindset.

In this session, we explore how to move beyond chasing efficiency and instead architect a system that is not only compliant and cost-effective, but truly future-ready. Join us to discover how to build HR processes that are designed to thrive in a world of constant change.

• Achieve scalability by building a strong 'Global Core' that serves as a stable foundation for growth.

• Achieve compliance by architecting a 'Global by Default, Local by Exception' model

• Achieve efficiency by using intelligent automation to build operational resilience

• Achieve transformation by embedding a culture of resilience that empowers your team and makes change stick


Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Sabine.

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