Laurent Dumoulin

Rythmik, a Swiss company, was founded in 2022 and the reason was simple. The world around us is changing and the future of working is being disrupted by a range of factors. We see a unique opportunity for organisations to be ready to embrace the changes to remain relevant in a world where values and belonging attract the talent of tomorrow.

HR Modernization is a transformation programme that includes the replacement of SAP by Workday as BP’s core HR system, the standing up of a new HR Operating Model via the creation of internal HR Services delivery centres, the centralization of the Talent Acquisition function and a new HR Partnering organisation (business partners and people advisors). It covers 65 countries, more than 55,000 BP employees, impacting circa 1,000 HR employees and went live in June 2019 globally. As deployment lead (newly created role), I took on additional senior leader responsibilities, being responsible for a project team of circa 15 individuals, focusing on country and segment deployment of HR Modernization activities, covering the integrated plan across the various central workstreams: • Member of the HR Modernization Leadership Team and Programme Governance Board • Provided guidance and direction to the deployment team on how best to deploy key activities across countries and land key change interventions. Set up the team from scratch. • Worked closely with the different project leads across the programme to integrate all activities to deploy these in a logical, sequential way and to minimise duplication and disruption to BAU activities • Led the global coordination of 25 “basecamp” events covering all 2000 HR employees across BP with the aim of aligning all HR teams globally on the purpose of HR Modernization and be ready for go-live • Hosted regular integrated country forums and community sessions to provide an integrated overview of the key updates, activities and issues throughout the implementation period • Provided input into several global process design validation workshops across different regions, building our new global processes for Workforce Administration and Workday

Working directly to the Vice President of HR – providing insight and support initiatives across the segment) and Diversity & Inclusion, in addition to specific project lead work. • Responsible for organising all HRLT meetings, including agenda, annual objectives and cadence • Defined and delivered the communications & engagement plan for the HR team, which contributed to a higher employee engagement score in the team • HR SPA on project ‘Bauhaus’ – working with Hackett to deliver a comprehensive external functional cost benchmark for BP, driving the next phase of functional strategies across BP • Co-led the deployment of the first approach on Sponsorship at BP, as part of the D&I agenda