Gabriella Varga

Product Owner @IBM

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I'm a senior product owner and client engagement lead with 20 years of experience in several business areas. I am recognized for my innovative and strategic thinking abilities, which enable me to establish and lead impactful programs and projects aimed at developing crucial skills across multiple countries and geographic regions. As a Product Owner, my primary objective is to enhance the product portfolio to boost business performance and efficiency across multiple organizations. Throughout my previous positions, I have acquired expertise in leadership and influential skills. I have successfully applied this knowledge to solve complex problems and manage global teams and global projects within a constantly changing environment. I excel in fostering extensive international collaboration and teamwork, engaging with diverse stakeholders such as end-users of our Career, Talent, or Learning and Development, People Analytics & HR Technology & AI solutions, as well as executives and leadership teams. I firmly believe in adopting a user-centric approach to design and delivery, striving to find purpose in everything I undertake.

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Work Background

IBMProduct Owner and Client Engagement Lead - People Analytics & AI

Sep. 2021Being part of the People Analytics, Data and AI team, I support the team to re-imagine how HR and business professionals use data to create people-related strategies across IBM. I'm responsible for developing and determining the most effective enablement and engagement model, and driving adoption globally and cross-domain.

IBMCareer & Skills Lead, Product Owner - Learning & Development

Apr. 2018 - Aug. 2021Budapest with Global reachIn April 2018 I became Career & Skills lead as part of the Learning & Development team at IBM Global Procurement, Finance&Operations working with a globally distributed team to continue expanding the career opportunities and our learning offerings and engagement with the 3000+ employees. I'm the Iteration Manager of the Career Development Chapter and I lead a global Career Progression program across all the domains to make sure we provide a consistent skills & competency map in an Agile organization. Roles & Responsibilities • lead & coach of the Career Development chapter • enable the leadership team to use the Talent management 9-grid process, including Talent profiles, Talent Insights and experiential talent management programs • design global Experiential Talent Development & Career Journey program and prepare employees for future professions • key interface to the Executives and ownership of the KPIs and outcomes • lead numerous HR, Learning & Development, design projects simultaneously • perform as a trusted market trend advisor, providing actionable recommendations considering the fact-based market insights and business knowledge • champion the New Ways of Working, promoting agile in all engagements to drive continuous improvement and facilitating Design Thinking strategy workshops both in virtual as well as live environment • drive consistency, transparency in the global talent development & career strategy

IBMGlobal Lead and Iteration Manager - Learning & Development

Aug. 2016 - Apr. 2018Budapest, Hungary - with global reachIn August 2016 I joined the Learning & Development team at IBM Global Procurement as a team leader & iteration manager (scrum master) working with a globally distributed team to continue expanding our learning offerings and engagement with the 3000+ employees at the Procurement Organization. A big part of my role is to lead & support the Agile transformation of our own team and the larger organization. The effectiveness and the high velocity of my team proves that the Agile values & practices (Wall of work, Kanban, small iterations, retrospective, showcase, squad & guild structure, daily standups, etc.) work very well in a project & program management environment. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein Roles & Responsibilities • lead & coach the L&D team and manage the extended team of champions designing and delivering classes • key interface to the Executives and ownership of the KPIs • lead numerous projects simultaneously • perform as a trusted market trend advisor, providing actionable recommendations based on fact-based market insights and business knowledge • champion the New Ways of Working, promoting agile in all engagements to drive continuous improvement • drive consistency, transparency in the global talent development strategy

IBMGlobal Education Program Manager & Agile facilitation

Jan. 2013 - Jul. 2016Budapest - working with global teamsI was responsible for the overall planning of scheduling and delivery of blended training activties within the IBM Transformation&Operations department (25K+ employees globally), and I was managing the Global Knowledge Buddy & Train the trainer program, including all the budgeting aspects from Fall plan until Return of Investment calculation. In early 2015 we started our Agile Transformation Journey within the bigger IBM corporation. I had the honor to lead a major global agile project as an iteration manager. My team was responsible for the global roll-out of the Taste of agile class. We upskilled 50+ new Agile champions and delivered 140+ classes for 4000+ participants worldwide. I lead the squad that consisted of 6 iteration managers and their agile teams. We worked in bi-weekly iterations, run retrospectives and show cases after each iteration phase. We built a social community that enabled us to be successful with this complex global agile project.

IBMEducation lead and trainer

Mar. 2004 - Jan. 2013I was responsible for the skill development activities, educational projects of 8 Procurement Centers' employees worldwide (1200 people), including talent management as well as new hire education. My team is a global team from everywhere: US, EMEA, AP. I'm a functional team leader of a global team as well as program manager and learning facilitator/trainer.