Susan Sescilia, Manager of Global Talent Operations at Arrow Electonics, discusses the firm's move towards a global HR and talent management strategy.
"We are a distributor of electronic parts. We are a US based company expanding our footprint globally. We have talent in sales, marketing, engineering, supply chain and functional executives. We have 13,200 employees at 260 locations in 55 countries," says Susan Sescilla, Manager of Global Talent Operations at Arrow Electronics, in a joint presentation with her European colleague Valerie Zara.
"We had a number of challenges. In 2003 we had new CEO join Arrow. New leadership brought new themes. He started on vision of One Arrow – one company acting globally not locally. He created a 4 pillar business strategy which is present in all meetings. Growing the business, operational execllence, finanical stability and shared leadership. Putting talent management here made it not just an HR responsibilty. We were managing HR data in three or 4 different ways which presents its own challenges. We had lots of different cultures coming together.