| Behind Beulah with Saskia

Behind Beulah with Saskia
Meet our Head of People + Culture | Operations Management

Saskia has always been a ‘people person,’ and it’s her undeniable warmth, passion and ability to empathise with people that are the heart and soul of Saskia’s professional skill set, allowing her to succeed as Beulah’s Head of People + Culture.

Managing Beulah’s HR requires being result-driven, professional and ambitious, yet she brings the compassion and creativity of an artist to the role. Her ability to see the bigger picture while breaking it down for the individual helps her engage and motivate others. In driving opportunities around harmonisation and simplification, Saskia is responsible for identifying areas of improvement to enable Beulah to perform to its optimum ability as part of her role in Operations Management.

With a decade of HR experience with international companies, Saskia created Beulah’s People + Culture strategy to enhance the employee experience. The certified organisational coach is passionate about working with others to improve performance, while achieving personal and professional goals.

Take us through a day in your life at Beulah…

My role is divided into two separate areas, which means every day is different, challenging and unexpected – in an exciting way!

Taking care of Beulah’s most important assets – the People + Culture – results in the role taking varied forms from one day to the next. Typically though, my day will circumnavigate finessing elements of the employee lifecycle – from resourcing through to talent and performance management, compensation and benefits, career development, risk management, and compliance. The operation management side draws my focus on building a solid base for the business and making sure that the business has the tools to perform to its optimum ability.

Beulah is a diverse company and my day reflects this. In the morning I might be working with different teams on mapping out internal processes to improve the efficiency of the organisation, or having a team meeting to go through the project plan of implementing new systems. The middle of the day could be assisting and advising the management about People + Culture queries followed by a quick lunch which will be typically balanced around meetings, and in the afternoon being more creative while working on a new Employer Branding strategy.

Taking care of Beulah’s most important assets – the people + culture – results in the role taking varied forms from one day to the next.

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Can you share some key highlights that make your day stand out?

Every day at Beulah requires lots of collaboration with different departments, spanning a multitude of topics in order to get the best result for the team and to grow as a business. This involves a lot of communication, problem-solving and creativity.

What drives/motivates your role at Beulah?

The diversity of my role and the opportunity to make a difference. Beulah creates incredible opportunities, allowing for creativity that drives change and growth through human leadership. Every day is different and has different challenges. Working with the individuals, teams and Directors to build capability, improve performance and achieve personal and organisational goals motivates me each day. People are the heart of every business, and to help keep Beulah’s heart growing is what I am passionate about. Finding ways of improving our operational workflow, team performance, and discovering hidden skills and talents of team members and helping them harness and implement this drives me every day.

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We love your out-of-the-box thinking, innovative and creative ideas! What inspires you?

People and their culture, stories and personalities are inspiring for me. I find this within my friends and family or with complete strangers while traveling around to and from work, as well as internationally. People are incredibly fascinating with all their facets. I love deep conversations, getting to know people and their experiences and putting together the puzzles of how people got to be where they are now.

How do you stay inspired?

Knowledge is power! Learning every day something new, keeping an open mind and value different opinions especially from people with diverse personalities. Surrounding myself with passionate and visionary people gives the ability to create something amazing together.

What are your top 3 tips you can share that you’ve learnt from being HEAD OF PEOPLE + CULTURE | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT AT Beulah

Be open minded and drive change: We are constantly evolving to improve the way we work.
See the big picture: Believe and trust that your work is contributing to a bigger vision.
Team work can move mountains: Even the impossible can become possible when we work together.