Eric Harding

Director, Global Employee Central PayPal

Eric is a distinguished leader at PayPal, spearheading the Global Employee Central team. With over two decades of executive experience across HR, Manufacturing, Product Development, and the Service Industry, he is renowned for driving tangible results. As a servant leader, Eric is celebrated for his unwavering composure in high-pressure situations and his innate ability to transform organizations. His leadership style, characterized by empathy and integrity, fosters a culture of continuous improvement, where questioning the status quo is encouraged. Eric's passion for infusing data analytics and Lean principles into operations propels innovation with the function. He inspires his colleagues through his tireless dedication to his team and his relentless pursuit of enhancing the Employee Central function. Eric's strengths in Woo, Individualization, Communication, Includer and Arranger underscore his ability to connect with diverse audiences and orchestrate impactful initiatives.

DAY 1: Monday, September 16, 2024

1:30 PM Panel: Prioritize Better Business Partnering and Data-Driven Decision Making to Grow Value and Business Success

To further transform Shared Services/GBS, leaders are strategically focusing on maintaining and creating more value (and visibility) for their organizations. To accomplish this, teams are becoming more capable, as opposed to transactional, and focusing on partnering with the business to align their initiatives for a more holistic approach.

  • Consider strategic opportunities to increase Shared Services value including scope expansion, streamlining processes to improve internal performance and sharing meaningful data to improve efficiencies and cash flow
  • Align objectives and initiatives with the business and establish KPIs that match to assist in meeting those goals 
  • Dive into impactful data and insights Shared Services can provide to the business for smarter decision-making and accelerated transformation
  • Discover helpful tools and technologies that aid in gathering data and creating insights for tailored solution delivery internally and externally

4:30 PM Building an Upstream Strategy to Solve Fundamental Business Problems and Embrace Continuous Improvement

In today's rapidly evolving landscape, GBS and shared service entities must embrace continuous adaptation and transformation while consistently delivering value. This session will focus on the critical outcomes that drive transformation and dissect the keys to leveraging advanced digital capabilities for sustainable growth. Dive into PayPal’s methodology-based improvement strategy that has led them to success in automation initiatives and time/cost savings through elimination and re-engineering processes. 

  • Explore methodology-based improvement thinking and hear examples of how PayPal identify problems before implementing solutions
  • Uncover how capabilities-based tools like Gen AI have solved business challenges in the organization
  • Dive into the value of uncovering how processes work to be able to streamline, iterate and deliver faster, quicker, better results to your organization and customers

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Eric.

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