PAULIG - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, HR
Anu Pires, Paulig's Senior Vice President, HR, has worked for the company since 2018. These three years have been full of change - particularly the past 1.5 years. First, people started working remotely at a tight schedule and now it is time to re-visit the topic and move towards the hybrid model. In this article, Anu shares her thoughts on how to make hybrid working a success and what other trends are shaping the future of work.
Career: Anu Pires has Master's in Economics, and she has worked in HR of several notable international companies such as Valmet, Lumene, Outotec, Nokia and Microsoft. During her time as a student, she also worked for the pizza restaurant chain Kotipizza from where she says she gained valuable skills for problem solving and working under pressure. Throughout her career, she has lived and worked in many countries such as Brazil, India, China and Singapore.
Family and hobbies: A mother of three teenage sons, Anu says her main hobby is to be a "Uber driver" to taking the three thriving volleyball players to their practice. While they are at the training, Anu likes to go on walks, including Nordic walking and an occasional run.
Last book you read: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. Anu prefers light fiction for recreational reading to balance out the working life.
SVP HR Anu Pires highlights that it is indeed a philosophy - a guideline - instead of a set of fixed policies or practices. The practical details of the execution will be left to every manager to decide together with their team.
"Particularly, for example, spontaneous conversations and ideas springing from them only take place when people are in the same place. It is also better to discuss difficult matters in person, and also - most of us do benefit from the structure and social aspects working in the office gives us," Pires says.
She also highlights that flexibility and adaptability are key in the long term: situations may change at individual level, team level, company level and even globally.
"This is why I hope that rather than settling into fixed schedules such as in the office two days a week and working from home three days a week, the teams would identify ways of working that adapt to the current needs and can be revisited as the situation changes," she summarises.
Job Titles:
- Director, Corporate Communications & Brand
Job Titles:
- SVP, Business Area Customer Brands
Job Titles:
- Communications Manager, Scandinavia & Central Europe
Job Titles:
- SVP, Business Area Scandinavia & CE
Job Titles:
- SVP, Communications & Sustainability
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- SVP, Business Area Finland & Baltics
Job Titles:
- CMO
- New Chief Marketing Officer
According to Marta Piigli, OOH Director, Baltics, the preferences of the Baltic people are not one and the same for the three countries. When it comes to coffee, for example, Estonians like their coffee fruity, Latvians more chocolatey and Lithuanians prefer a mellow taste - to generalise a little.
Career: Marta Piigli holds a Master's in Public Relations from Tartu University and MBA from Estonian Business School. Since the start of her career, her work has been connected to the foods industry. Marta has been building Estonian food and organic farming image with the Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce, popularising sustainability and energy innovation with the Estonian Climate and Energy Agency, and then joined the coffee solutions provider Vendor that later became a part of Paulig Group.
Job Titles:
- Communications Manager, Finland & Baltics
Job Titles:
- Commercial Director, Retail Baltics
Career: Rainer Tammet has made an impressively long career in Paulig, starting out as a Marketing Assistant back in 1994. He is a Civil Engineer by education and worked in Sweden and Finland during the early 1990s. From there, he progressed through various positions, moving from marketing to commercial side in the late 1990s. Prior to restructuring, the Baltics belonged to Paulig's Eastern business area, so at its largest, Rainer's responsibility covered as many countries as the Baltics, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Russia.
Job Titles:
- SVP, Supply Chain & Sourcing