Tommy Kristensen

Based: Arctic - in the capital of Nuuk, Greenland.

Reviewed and optimized employment contracts and supplements to achieve optimal compliance to current regulations. Secured severance agreements with senior executives in the organization and that they were handled in accordance with applicable regulations and in the company's best interests.

Contract Negotiations. IT contracts and Service Level Agreements. Negotiated outsourcing of personnel contracts with third party.

Insuring that HR management strategies and systems is directly linked to the strategies, overall
mission and success of the company. Assuring all basic HR functions are performing at optimal level and liaising with stakeholders to ensure adherence to compliance.

Implementing new people management systems, including performance management processes, new bonus program, employee profiling (PLI) in entire organization. Directed performance rating, job classification (Mercer) & implementation of WILO (Week in the Life Of).

Contract/Vendor Management and negotiation of IT contracts (purchase & service agreements). E.g. new Terminal Operating System and new Liner Management System (Navis and Softship).

Adapting the legal structure of the Royal Arctic Group to accommodate the company strategy accomplished by merging, selling and liquidating companies and thereby cutting both cost and internal administration considerable by restructuring the corporate structure of companies.

Execute overall corporate administration of the company and subsidiary companies. Performed corporate management and ensuring compliance for several companies.

Professionally on-board new board of directors as well as new chief executive officer.

Play a key role as advisor to the CEO and in all corporate, administrative and strategic matters.

Since end of February 2016 appointed the roll as Senior Director of the company’s department of Human Resources along with existing corporate functions.

Spearheaded the success of a large-scale moving project for the central administration of the government, together with the preparation of the building, taking the new domicile in use and terminate external leases.

Delivered advice to the government top management in general matters and in regards to official construction projects.

Restructured a dissolving Facility Services Department into a well-functioning, high performance team through personal leadership. Handled procurement processes for Facility
Management Services.

Negotiating framework and the launching of the creation of a joint public translator / terminology system for the entire Greenland public administration.

Successfully formulated, negotiated and implemented several collective labour agreements.

Communicated with union representatives and union parties, including mediation meetings.

Supervised a wide variety of legal tasks; negotiating and managing collective labour agreements, general legal counsel for all governmental managers and executive leaders in all aspects of employment law.

Planned and enhanced access to employment law materials and agreements through internal web application, which greatly improved local mangers knowledge and use of employment rules and guidelines.

Delivered leadership and management, business development in both local and international financial markets & ensuring full compliance with statutory requirements in the daily operation.

Insuring legal compliance and management of contracts as the overall responsible for the Contracts Administration Office.

Expertly introduced the company culture to a more performance-oriented culture. Digitised a paper-based, customer oriented reporting system to eForms.

Developed the existing local financial market with single-trade setup to meet requirements and the integration into the CCP system (Central Counter Part setup

Headed the contracts; covering all legal contracts and participation agreements in connection to customers use and membership of the central financial system. Actively engaged and communicated with customer banks & financial traders on a daily basis.

Selected member of company Task Force Team with specialized focusing on the legal aspects and ensuring proper compliance with applicable contracts and regulations.

Diligently succeeded and completed projects on product development within a given deadline. Accomplished business development of systems and process improvement to ensure a continuous compliance with new regulations in the market and support of customer needs.

Appearances in court to negotiate settlements and courtroom litigation / trial proceedings.

Performed general legal work and counselling of clients and colleagues.

Investigated and prepared notes on various legal complex areas and contract negotiations.

Built own client portfolio and bringing new business/clients for the betterment of the firm and successfully achieved and exceeded company performance goals.

Led the debt recovery cases in enforcement court and negotiated out for court settlements.

Delivered advise and support to clients on various types of legal matters

Effectively handled own case portfolio and conduct legal research on all aspects of business.