Daniel Linen Von Den Berg

Strategic leader at the intersection of HR, labor law, labor relations, and corporate legal with extensive experience in complex transformations, restructurings, and M&A/post-merger integration. I combine legal expertise, negotiation skills, and modern HR leadership with a clear business focus. My strength lies in successfully shaping demanding change processes, navigating co-determination and collective bargaining relationships, and building future-proof organizational and HR structures.

Scope of Responsibility

• Leadership Positions in organizational units with 2,100 - 6,000 employees and annual revenues between €300 million and €2 billion.

• Restructuring: Management of measures and socially compatible implementation with a scope of > 250 job cuts.

• Budget Responsibility: Independent management of annual budgets from €1.5 - 3 million.

• Negotiation Mandates: Leading negotiations with works councils (e.g., on operational changes, reorganizations, or digital transformation) and with trade unions (e.g., collective agreements for over 11,000 employees).

• Projects: incl. construction of a new dairy plant (investment volume €200 million); negotiation of various legal transactions with volumes up to high double-digit millions.

My Core Competencies

• Leadership: Leading high-performing teams, cultural alignment, and constructive management of challenging situations.

• Transformation & Change: End-to-end management of complex HR, organizational, and restructuring programs.

• Labor Relations: Deep expertise in individual labor law, co-determination, collective bargaining relationships, conflict resolution, and balancing of interests/social plans.

• Stakeholder Management: Strong negotiation skills, interface-oriented, and confident in economically critical transformation phases.

• M&A/PMI: Support of national and international transactions, integrations, and governance issues.