TOMOE NAGATA
Summary
A results-oriented and innovative global human resources leader with over 20 years of experience in leading business growth and developing and managing key change initiatives. Held HRBP and COE leadership roles and partnered with executives in Asia and other regions to successfully introduce and lead various culture alignment, employee engagement, staffing, and talent and leadership development strategies and programs. Proven ability to quickly establish credibility and contribute to business performance. Bilingual: English and Japanese
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Director, Center of Excellence
Novocure
10.2022 - Current
- In support of major expansion into new countries in APAC, EMEA and Latin America, identified and created HR Center of Excellence projects including Talent Development, HRIS, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Culture and Diversity
- Drove COE program globalization and implementation of various HR programs for increased efficiencies and effectiveness, strengthened organizational capabilities and leadership collaboration
- Accountable for systems and budget in support of organizational and people capabilities, headcount planning and oversight from the lens of comprehensive analysis across finance, business and HR.
Head of Talent and Organizational Development
Bytedance TikTok
07.2020 - 09.2022
- Fully accountable for developing strategies and executing performance management, talent management, talent development, leadership development and organizational development for a fast growing 1500+ organization in Japan with diverse business portfolios from B2B (e.g
- LARK) and B2C (e.g TikTok)
- Served as member of the Global Talent Development leadership team for 100,000+ employees worldwide
- Partnered with counterparts in EMEA and USA to globally align talent development and management initiatives to build key competencies and capabilities for long-term sustainable business success
- Collaborated with Organizational Development COE in Beijing, China; partnered with TikTok General Managers and other business units in measuring pulse of employee engagement and developed programs and processes to respond to challenges and issues.
Director of HR
Novocure
01.2020 - 07.2020
- Served on Global HR Leadership Team, upgrading the HR strategy in Japan affiliate and introduced global programs such as Salesforce HRIS, talent attraction programs, employee engagement survey for improved employee value proposition, productivity and effectiveness.
- Created succession planning strategies to ensure leadership continuity and long-term success.
- Increased employee engagement with open communication channels and regular feedback opportunities.
- Streamlined recruitment processes for increased efficiency in hiring top talent.
- Enhanced company culture by promoting diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Head of Human Resources
Novo Nordisk Japan and Korea
01.2018 - 12.2019
- Responsible for aligning HR strategy and programs in response to significant business challenges including global strategy shift, business downturn in Japan and other macroeconomic changes
- Successfully led large scale reduction in force while increasing employee engagement without zero legal challenges
- Introduced innovative approaches to talent management and leadership development for evolving newly defined company culture of innovation and agility while increasing employee brand and business performance
- Designed and introduced ‘Learning Week' and ‘Women's Forum'; the very first initiatives to evolve and support new company culture of ‘Culture to Succeed'; successfully adopted by leaders and employees
- Implemented workshop approach to increase operating effectiveness of the Executive Leadership Team.
Head of Human Resources
Amazon Web Services
09.2017 - 12.2017
- Refocused and modernizing Japan HR's strategy and processes to support rapid expansion of Amazon's fastest growing business
- Redesigned talent review programs and developed robust senior leadership talent pipeline
- Designed HR initiatives to ensure adoption of Amazon's “Leadership Principles” (the value and culture pillar of Amazon)
- Led the transformation of HR business partners and functional areas, transitioning the operation to an integrated and aligned business support model with a focus on talent acquisition and retention.
APAC Regional HR Lead
Biogen
02.2016 - 08.2017
- As a key member of the APAC leadership team, led people initiatives in driving business results
- Hired initially as the Country Head of HR for Japan and was quickly promoted to the APAC Regional HR Lead
- For HR, led the divestiture and identified and solved all human resources challenges of a $100M hemophilia business unit spin-off
- Partnered with senior leadership in (1) redesigning the remaining business; (2) designing and creating the spin-off corporate entity; and (3) led change management in order to maintain high employee engagement
- At the end, spin-off met deal completion objectives and deadlines with no legal issues.
Head of Organizational Development
Coca-Cola Japan
11.2013 - 12.2016
- As second highest HR leader in 200 member team and reporting directly to Chief People Officer, was fully accountable for driving integration of 26 corporate entities for a recently merged 12,000 employee company
- Led a team of 13 HR professionals focused on talent management, leadership assessment and development, learning programs, talent onboarding, and people manager excellence
- Direct result was an upskilling of talent and satisfying shareholder expectations of productivity and employee engagement through synergies achieved
- Redesigned ‘Competency and Value' framework for the newly merged company, redefined career paths, leadership competencies and introduced new leadership development programs to meet new business challenges
- Successfully led union negotiations and secured support necessary to launch newly created talent management and leadership development framework and programs.
M&A Manager/Senior Human Resources Manager
Microsoft Corporation
09.2008 - 09.2013
- Drove organizational and people strategies aligned to business strategy in collaboration with both U.S
- Based and non-U.S
- Based HR partners for a globally distributed Research & Development organization
- Partnered with and coached business leaders to facilitate organizational and culture change
- Designed and gained executive support; led a team in executing year-long leadership development program for High Potentials (top 4% of global talent); program received received 5 out of 5 participant satisfaction score
- Acted as catalyst for building organizational effectiveness within the business through innovative people framework
- As part of M&A COE, led a series of acquisitions including due diligence, acquired talent assessment, and people and organizational integration
- Co-led deal analytics team in assessing the success of all corporate transactions over 10-year period to gain insights
- Based on findings, redesigned talent assessment, executive onboarding and rewards mechanisms.
Education
Master of Public Administration - International Policy and Management
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Loyola Marymount University
Skills
- HR Strategy Development
- Workforce Planning
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Leadership Development
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Internal Communications
- Recruitment strategy
- Performance Management
- Succession Planning
- Human Resources Business Partnering
- HR Analytics & Insights
Select Accomplishments
- Managed transformation of newly merged 26 companies with 12,000 employees including talent management, leadership development, organizational development and a new rewards scheme to drive ‘pay for performance' culture.
- Designed and implemented innovative approach to simultaneously change culture and institute major headcount reduction in response to business downturn. Results led to retention of critical skills and top talents and organizational designs matching the new business reality with zero legal risk.
- Led North American region for a Fortune 50 corporation's global mobility program including over 2,500+ expatriates with project budget of $30 million USD. Improved business processes, conceptualized and implemented web-based workflow management system globally, resulting in reduction in program operating costs and improved talent experience.
- Aligned top leadership team on ‘culture to succeed' and developed a series of campaigns, including diversity, employee branding and rewards programs to truly embed the new culture through influencing key stakeholders and executives.
- Led a global scale workforce optimization program across 75 countries in response to business downturn in collaboration with HR leads in the 75 countries – on time completion while retaining top talents with zero legal issues and maintaining employer brand challenges.
Certification
- Hogan
- Insights
- Strength Finder
- Predictive Index
- GPHR (Global Professional in Human Resources)
Early Career Experiences
- PricewaterhouseCoopers - Manager, Human Resource Services (Management Consultant)
- YAHOO!, Inc. - International Human Resources Programs Manager
- Philips – Global Mobility Manager
Competencies And Strengths
- Project Management
- Cross-Border M&A
- Leadership Team Performance
- Leading Global Teams
- Culture Transformation
- Leadership Development
- Change Readiness & Management
- Data/Analytics Driven Insights
Languages
English, Japanese
Native language
Timeline
Senior Director, Center of Excellence
Novocure
10.2022 - Current
Head of Talent and Organizational Development
Bytedance TikTok
07.2020 - 09.2022
Director of HR
Novocure
01.2020 - 07.2020
Head of Human Resources
Novo Nordisk Japan and Korea
01.2018 - 12.2019
Head of Human Resources
Amazon Web Services
09.2017 - 12.2017
APAC Regional HR Lead
Biogen
02.2016 - 08.2017
Head of Organizational Development
Coca-Cola Japan
11.2013 - 12.2016
M&A Manager/Senior Human Resources Manager
Microsoft Corporation
09.2008 - 09.2013
Master of Public Administration - International Policy and Management
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Loyola Marymount University
- Hogan
- Insights
- Strength Finder
- Predictive Index
- GPHR (Global Professional in Human Resources)
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