The success of the group depends on the proper implementation of the global organisational model launched at the end of the FFDB process and various initiatives were therefore undertaken to increasingly integrate and globalise the group’s various departments:
• “key” positions increasingly held by resources from all the major entities (Australia, India, France and the USA);
• increasing the number of employees involved in global secondment schemes to foster international expertise and integration; • strengthening interbusiness and intergeographic synergies thanks to the internal mobility of resources;
• activating the first localisation strategies.
The Future Leaders plan launched in 2012 deserves special mention. It forms part of the Talent Management process and its scope is to identify, develop and encourage those individuals demonstrating the distinctive characteristics necessary for the leaders of Ansaldo STS group. The future leaders must be real agents of change, encourage team spirit, be internationally-minded and be prepared to work with dedication and commitment anywhere in the world, while taking on increasing responsibility.
The initiative is open to all group employees.
The selection process is based on increasingly complex objective testing, the results of the candidates’ most recent performance reviews, as well as personal motivation as expressed in a covering letter.
The final stage of the Future Leaders programme involved individual interviews with senior management and was completed in December 2012. Twenty top talents were subsequently identified and assigned to work on strategic projects in the near future.
7.1.1 The parent Ansaldo STS
Members of the parent’s senior management appointed as per the most recent resolution dated 5 April 2011 have not changed in 2012 and they are as follows:
• Chairman of the board of directors: Alessandro Pansa; • Deputy chairman of the board of directors: Giancarlo Grasso; • Chief executive officer: Sergio De Luca.
In its meeting of 27 January 2012, the board of directors unanimously approved the following changes, proposed by the CEO, to Ansaldo STS group’s first-level organisation of the Company Secretary & General Counsel, Standard Processes, Quality & IT Services and Strategy positions, effective 1 October 2012.
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On 5 March 2012, the board also acknowledged that the International Special Project position has been cancelled and conferred the role of Senior Vice President Delivery of the Transportation Solutions business unit on Michele Fracchiolla.
With effect from 1 September 2012, Ansaldo STS’s board of directors appointed Christian Andi Chief Financial Officer in place of Alberto Milvio and simultaneously appointed him in charge of the Finance department. This followed the resolutions approved by the board during its meeting of 26 July 2012.
In its meeting of 27 September 2012, the board of directors unanimously approved the following changes, proposed by the CEO, to Ansaldo STS group’s first-level organisation of the Company Secretary & General Counsel, Standard Processes, Quality & IT Services and Strategy positions, effective 1 October 2012:
- to eliminate the Company Secretary & General Counsel position held by Mauro Gigante so the following departments report directly to the CEO:
i) Legal Business Affairs & Litigation, confirming Filippo Corsi as its head; ii) Corporate Affairs & Group Insurances, confirming Grazia Guazzi as its head; iii) External Communication, confirming Roberto Alatri as its head.
- to appoint Grazia Guazzi (in charge of the Corporate Affairs & Group Insurances department) as the new secretary to the board of directors;
- to close the Standard Processes, Quality & IT Services department and allocate the related activities to other departments, specifically: i) IT Services activities to the CFO’s department;
ii) Process Improvement & Quality activities to the Strategy department; iii) personnel development activities to the Human Resources department;
iv) to change the name of the Strategy department to Strategy, Quality & Improvement. Ansaldo STS’s first-level organisational structure is therefore as follows:
• Reporting to the CEO, Sergio De Luca:
- Signalling business unit: Emmanuel Viollet;
- Transportation Solutions business unit: Sergio De Luca, ad interim; - Standard Platforms & Products business unit: Giuseppe Gaudiello; - Innovation & Competitiveness: Giovanni Bocchetti;
- Legal Business Affairs & Litigation: Filippo Corsi - Corporate Affairs & Group Insurances: Grazia Guazzi - External Communication: Roberto Alatri
- Chief Financial Officer: Christian Andi; - Human Resources: Stefano Palmieri; - Risk Management: Roberto Passalacqua; - HSE & Facility Management: Giuseppe Spezzi; - Security: Giovanni Rapiti;
- Strategy, Quality & Improvement: Marco Fumagalli
• Reporting to the chairman of the board of directors:
- Internal Audit: Mauro Giganti.
The board of directors unanimously approved Ansaldo STS group’s 2011 Sustainability report on 30 March 2012.
In their meeting of 28 June 2012, the board of directors unanimously authorised the secondment of Giovanni Rapiti to AnsaldoBreda S.p.A. for a period of roughly one year, on a part-time basis and against payment. In the same meeting, the board of directors unanimously appointed Antonio Liguori Branch Manager and, as such, as legal representative of the parent’s permanent establishment in Thessaloniki, conferring on him all powers for the management of the branch and related and consequent activities; this followed the resignation of Mario Picone.
7.1.2 Subsidiaries
The country representatives of Ansaldo STS’s major entities are as follows:
Country Representative Ansaldo STS France S.A.S.: Emmanuel Viollet (Président de la Société). Country Representative Ansaldo STS USA Inc.: Thomas Lawton (President & Chief Executive Officer). Country Representative Ansaldo STS Australia PTY LTD: Lyle Jackson.
Country Representative Ansaldo Railway System Trading (Beijing) Ltd: Davide Cucino (Chairman of the Board of Directors). The headcount may be analysed as follows:
COMPANY/REGION 2011 2012 Change ASTS Italy* 1,583 1.532 (51) ASTS France** 650 622 (28) ASTS USA 862 769 (93) ASTS APAC 928 1003 75 ASTS China 77 65 (12)
Streamlining of the production facilities in France and the USA continued in 2012, while the redundancy scheme ended in Italy. The increase in the APAC headcount is due to the increase in activities for the Rio Tinto project and the demand for personnel by the Balfour Beatty JV for the Malaysian project.
7.1.3 Headcount at 31 December 2012
The group’s headcount at 31 December 2012 numbered 3,991, down a net 109 employees (2.7%) on the 4,100 employees at 31 December 2011.
It may be analysed by business unit at 31 December 2012 as follows:
• Signalling business unit: 2,971 employees, equal to 74.4% of total employees;
• Transportation Solutions business unit: 631 employees, equal to 15.8% of total employees; • Other activities: 389 employees, equal to 9.7% of total employees.
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