Olaf Steinert

Bereichspersonalleiter; Prokurist at VGRD

Olaf Steinert has extensive experience in human resources and operational management across various sectors, including healthcare and automotive. Currently serving as a Rettungssanitäter at Schnelle Medizinische Hilfe Krankentransport GmbH since October 2022, Olaf's previous roles include Bereichspersonalleiter and Prokurist at Volkswagen Group Retail Deutschland, with responsibilities for operational personnel management over teams of 21-50 and overseeing auto dealership personnel management. Olaf also held the position of Group Human Resources Director at D+S communication center management GmbH, focusing on employee recruitment and retention strategies for the organization. Earlier experience includes Human Resources Director at FirmenFitness by Fitness First Germany GmbH and leading operational personnel management at Deutsche Bahn for almost a decade. Olaf holds degrees in Diplom-Kaufmann from The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Systemic Coaching from GST Berlin, and a Rettungssanitäter qualification from Faktor Notfall, Berliner Feuerwehr, and DRK-Klinikum Berlin.

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Berlin, Germany

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VGRD

VGRD GmbH (Volkswagen Group Retail Germany) is the automotive retail group of the Volkswagen Group and comprises more than 100 dealerships. We offer the entire range of new vehicles, used cars as well as workshop and services for the Group brands Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, SEAT, SKODA, Porsche and Lamborghini. We are Germany's largest automotive retail group. Our dealerships are located in the metropolitan regions of Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin, Leipzig/Chemnitz, Frankfurt am Main, Rhein-Neckar, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg as well as in and around Munich. With more than 8,750 employees, we sell more than 180,000 new and used cars every year. In the VGRD we focus on innovative strength and digitalization. In our subsidiaries, innovative and customer-focused solutions for the automotive retail are developed and successfully introduced together with the Volkswagen Group. As an employer, the VGRD is the first choice for graduates and professionals in the automotive retail. We remunerate our employees in collective agreements and offer them, in addition to an attractive salary, attractive bonus schemes and benefits (such as car leasing or employee discounts) as well as occupational pension scheme. We focus on the training and development of young talents. We are currently training more than 1,100 young people and offer them numerous perspectives. Internal personnel development is very important to us. In addition to the qualification measures of the brands, we have established our own personnel development programs in the VGRD for all career levels. An agile and cooperative participation is part of our VGRD culture. We live a corporate culture that enables all employees to work together on equal terms and opens up spaces for creativity, pushes forward diversity and strengthens value-oriented action.


Headquarters

Wolfsburg, Germany

Employees

10,000+

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